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You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don't your efforts seem to make a difference?

Fifteen years ago, Robert Egger asked himself this same question as he reluctantly climbed aboard a food service truck for a night of volunteering to help serve meals to the homeless. He wondered why there were still people waiting in line for soup in this day and age. Where were the drug counselors, the job trainers, and the support team to help these men and women get off the streets? Why were volunteers buying supplies from grocery stores when restaurants were throwing away unused fresh food every night? Why had politicians, citizens, and local businesses allowed charity to become an end in itself? Why wasn't there an efficient way to solve the problem?

Robert knew there had to be a better way. In 1989, he started the D.C. Central Kitchen by collecting unused food from local restaurants, caterers, and hotels and bringing it back to a central location where hot, nutritious meals were prepared and distributed to agencies around the city. Since then, the D.C. Central Kitchen has been named one of President Bush Sr.'s Thousand Points of Light and has become one of the most respected and emulated nonprofit agencies in the world, producing and distributing more than 4,000 meals a day. Its highly successful 12-week job-training program equips former homeless transients and drug addicts with culinary and life skills to gain employment in the restaurant business.

In Begging for Change, Robert Egger looks back on his experience and exposes the startling lack of logic, waste, and ineffectiveness he has encountered during his years in the nonprofit sector, and calls for reform of this $800 billion industry from the inside out. In his entertaining and inimitable way, he weaves stories from his days in music, when he encountered legends such as Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, and Iggy Pop, together with stories from his experiences in the hunger movement -- and recently as volunteer interim director to help clean up the beleaguered United Way National Capital Area. He asks for nonprofits to be more innovative and results-driven, for corporate and nonprofit leaders to be more focused and responsible, and for citizens who contribute their time and money to be smarter and more demanding of nonprofits and what they provide in return. Robert's appeal to common sense will resonate with readers who are tired of hearing the same nonprofit fund-raising appeals and pity-based messages. Instead of asking the "who" and "what" of giving, he leads the way in asking the "how" and "why" in order to move beyond our 19th-century concept of charity, and usher in a 21st-century model of change and reform for nonprofits.

Enlightening and provocative, engaging and moving, this book is essential reading for nonprofit managers, corporate leaders, and, most of all, any citizen who has ever cared enough to give of themselves to a worthy cause.

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Is there greed in Raspberry Hill's genes?

 

In this sequel to Coretta Scott King Honor Book MONEY HUNGRY, once-homeless Raspberry Hill vows never to end up on the streets again. It's been a year since Raspberry's mother threw her hard-earned money out the window like trash, so to Raspberry money equals security and balance. And she's determined to do anything to achieve it.

 

But when a troubled neighborhood teenager attacks her mother and Raspberry's drug-addicted father returns, Raspberry becomes desperate for her life to change and ends up doing the unthinkable, potentially ruining her friendships and losing her self-respect along the way. Will Raspberry accept that nothing good comes of bad money? Or is she destined to follow in her father's footsteps?.
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Enjoy 7 Nights of Delicious Meals by Cooking Just Once a Week!
How would you like to spend less time in the kitchen, but still prepare great meals for your family—and save money at the same time? After a long, hard day at work, you probably have little energy left to go home and cook a meal. Yet, you don't want to depend on fast food for your family either. In The Once-a-Week Cooking Plan, award-winning cook Joni Hilton shows you how to save time and money. Inside, you'll learn how to create seven days' worth of delicious, easy dishes for families of four to six—by cooking only once a week. For example, using chicken as the base, you can create these culinary delights:
·Tuscany Chicken Soup
·Pacific Rim Chicken Salad
·Madadamia-Crusted Chicken with Ginger Aioli
·Mexican Chicken Lasagna
·Pesto Pepper Chicken Pizza
·Chicken Papaya Quesadillas
This streamlined cooking method also allows you to shop just once a week, instead of popping into the grocery store whenever you remember you need something. With her fail-proof system of bulk preparation, freezing, organizing, and ways of getting kids into the act, Joni Hilton shows you how to save 10 to 20 hours of precious time each week—time better spent doing what you really want to do, rather than slaving over a hot stove..
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Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times and Winner of the 1999 Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Fiction

For Vietnam veteran Jesse Pasadoble, now a defense attorney living in San Francisco, the battle still rages: in his memories; in the gang wars erupting on Potrero Hill; and in the recent slaying of two women-one black, one Vietnamese. In seeking justice for the young man accused of the brutal double murder, Jesse must walk with the men who died on another hill . . . men who were his comrades and friends in a war that crossed racial divides. Finding the truth means confronting the ghosts of Vietnam-and the possibility of his own redemption.

A novel that makes mesmerizing leaps of imagination as it moves seamlessly between past and present, Gods Go Begging tells an unforgettable story of war and peace, guilt and innocence, suffering and love.

"Va is a true artist . . . his rendering of the Vietnam War is thoroughly original."--Los Angeles Times.
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Working Mom's Fast & Easy Family Cookbook is two amazing books in one: Working Mom's Fast & Easy Kid-Friendly Meals and Working Mom's Fast & Easy One-Pot Cooking. Together they feature nearly 300 delicious (and healthy!) kid-approved meals, all using a minimum of cookware, and many that can be on the table in under thirty minutes. The family appetite will be tastily nourished and the clean-up squad will be pleased as well. And whoever's cooking will find the handy plan-ahead, organizing, and equipment tips invaluable to making every meal of the day a satisfying snap..
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An apostolic lifestyle characterized by total material renunciation, homelessness, and begging was practiced by monks throughout the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries. Such monks often served as spiritual advisors to urban aristocrats whose patronage gave them considerable authority and independence from episcopal control. This book is the first comprehensive study of this type of Christian poverty and the challenge it posed for episcopal authority and the promotion of monasticism in late antiquity. Focusing on devotional practices, Daniel Caner draws together diverse testimony from Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and elsewhere-including the Pseudo-Clementine Letters to Virgins, Augustine's On the Work of Monks, John Chrysostom's homilies, legal codes-to reveal gospel-inspired patterns of ascetic dependency and teaching from the third to the fifth centuries. Throughout, his point of departure is social and cultural history, especially the urban social history of the late Roman empire. He also introduces many charismatic individuals whose struggle to persist against church suppression of their chosen way of imitating Christ was fought with defiant conviction, and the book includes the first annotated English translation of the biography of Alexander Akoimetos (Alexander the Sleepless). Wandering, Begging Monks allows us to understand these fascinating figures of early Christianity in the full context of late Roman society. 2 maps.
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Over 300 delicious recipes-many created by great chefs-that will have pasta lovers begging for more!

The Everything Pasta Cookbook features over 300 delicious pasta recipes, in every conceivable combination of flavors, textures, and tastes. Many of the recipes in this collection have been gathered from some of the most famous chefs from across the country. Now you can prepare these terrific pasta meals for yourself and your family.

If you're a pasta lover, this is one book you can't be without. You'll learn how to make pasta from scratch and cook your favorite sauces from the freshest ingredients. From the classic Italian dishes to new ethnic cuisine, this authoritative cookbook covers everything you need to know to cook, sauce, and serve pasta, with recipes in the following categories:

Low-fat pasta meals
Hearty and heart-warming soups
International vegetarian dishes
Pasta paired with chicken, meat, and seafood
Stuffed and layered pastas: from lasagna to home-made raviolis
Delicious pasta meals with beans and grains, cold pasta salads-perfect for parties!

Informative and entertaining, The Everything Pasta Cookbook covers absolutely everything related to pasta: from outfitting your kitchen with the right utensils and equipment and stocking your pantry, to the many different varieties of pasta shapes, and how to match them with just the right sauces..
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Packed full of tips and techniques to drive your man wild in bed. This down-to-earth, witty book will put an end to all worthy sex guides..
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