"A unique book with a unique approach, this is destined to become a classic." --Charitable Gift Planning News In this deeply humane and informative book, Douglas White deftly weaves together personal insight and level-headed advice in a probing look at the human side of planned giving. He helps you understand, develop, and use the interpersonal skills that are an essential part of every successful planned giving officer's art. White provides practical answers to such crucial questions as: How do I successfully approach a prospect for a planned gift? What are the steps to building a prospect's trust and instilling a sense of mission? How can I tell if I'm being too aggressive--or not aggressive enough? How do I handle a donor's lawyer and other advisors who don't support the gift? Tracing the entire process of acquiring a planned gift from the first phone call to managing the gift's assets, White offers many helpful pointers on how to deal with donors, their families, and their professional advisors, as well as executive directors and board members within your organization. He also helps you translate technical knowledge into planned gifts that are better for both donors and charities. The first book to take you beyond the mere mechanics and into the very soul of planned giving, The Art of Planned Giving is an important working resource for planned giving officers, fund-raising professionals and consultants, as well as nonprofit executives and board members.

The Art of Planned Giving: Understanding Donors and the Culture of Giving (Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series)

Business & Money

White, Doug

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Aimed at and written for “the beginning art student” and the “interested amateur,” Drawing and Rendering by Doug White is an instructive and informative guidebook that will be of use to anyone with artistic drawing aspirations – no matter their experience level.   Mr. White presents a detailed and descriptive handbook with logical step-by-step suggestions, ensuring the reader will have a full grasp on aspects of drawing that are as specific as how to measure the correct shape and dimensions to all elements within the human form. While this method has worked for Mr. White’s extensive professional art career, he is not hesitant to admit that “once you have memorized and absorbed the rules and what they represent to you, you may want to change them, alter them, reverse or even eliminate them.” After all, this is art!   DRAWING AND RENDERING provides structured information as well as practical advice such as what are the best and most economical supplies to purchase. Every page has at least one image to inspire and instruct, including multiple “gallery” sections of full color artwork from the author and contributing artists. Spanning from the basic elements to how to sketch different fabrics to detailed human portraits, DRAWING AND RENDERING THE FIGURE is an in-depth and easy-to-follow guide that will generate artistic excitement from even the most hesitant student.

Drawing and Rendering The Figure in Black and White and Colour: A Student Guide

Arts & Photography

Study & Teaching

Vantage Press

The dispatch appears to be strictly routine: Pick up a load at a mine in Montana and deliver it to Reno, Nevada. But it doesn't take long before long-haul trucker Jake Winters realizes he's being sent to a ghost town to pick up a load at a mine that closed more than a hundred years ago. Little does he know that a mysterious pick up is the least of his worries. He is soon accused of a crime that has no logical explanation. In Doug White's first novel, The Load: An Over-the-Road Mystery, protagonist Jake Winters takes readers on an unforgettable ride as a cross-country truck driver who finds himself in unusual trouble. Against the beautiful backdrop of the U.S. West, White-who also happens to be an over-the-road trucker-crafts a baffling thriller about an unusual load that mysteriously disappears from a sealed trailer. We first meet Winters behind the wheel of his Freightliner as he is being pulled over by the Department of Transportation and the FBI. Initially he is simply curious about the situation, certain the authorities have no real business with him. But then he learns that his sealed trailer is empty, when it should have been holding a 4,000-piece of mining equipment. And the chief suspect in the case of the missing crusher is none other than he! In the days before, Winters had taken a harrowing drive up a mountain road to J and J Mines in Slippery Gulch. He encounters several people in the old West town, including a waifish boy and the crusty owner of the mine. Winters chalks up an obvious lack of modern amenities to the isolated location of the town. But when the mine owner is mystified by the ballpoint pen Winters presents to sign the paperwork, even the easygoing trucker begins to question the situation.

The Load: An Over-the-Road Mystery

Bookman Publishing

You have a great product or service. You know that a large number of people/businesses would benefit from its use. In other words, you have built a better mouse trap, so where are all the folks beating a path to your door? We're sorry; it just doesn't work like that. If you want to sell your product/service, you will have to find a way to get access to the key decision makers. Those people who can actually buy something from you and your business. This is the dilemma that faced Bill and Cathy King in 2009. Bill and Cathy had both lost their jobs during the worst economy of their lifetime. At their ages, they knew it would be next to impossible to find comparable positions in their hometown. They decided to open a consulting agency that would serve small businesses. They were smart, educated and talented individuals. They were highly qualified to succeed -- except neither knew how to sell. They joined a group that promised to teach them this critical skill, but after four months of vigorously applying the tactics they had learned they had exactly zero clients. Bill and Cathy knew they needed to meet and build relationships with business owners, but they were unsuccessful doing this through normal networking, sales strategies and cold-calling. It was time to invent a new way to get clients. One that didn't involve selling.

Guaranteed Access: How To Get Clients Without Selling

White, Polly

RVA Press

It was the largest one-time amount―$35 million―anyone had ever donated to benefit a university. The Robertsons were specific about the way the money was to be used. It was intended to help Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs focus on sending its graduates into those areas of the federal government concerned with international relations. “But the university,” the son says, “was ignoring my parents’ intentions.” Furthermore, Princeton’s administrators were “harming the country.” That’s not, as you might imagine, the way Princeton saw it―or sees it today.How much control over a gift does a donor have after the gift is given? How accountable is a non-profit recipient for the use of the gift?“Robertson v. Princeton may be the most important case higher education has faced over the question of honoring the wishes of the donor.” Wall Street Journal“Doug White’s careful and fair study of the seminal Robertson Foundation endowment litigation against Princeton University should be read by all donors and donees. As a former head of the New York State Law Department’s Charities Bureau, I know donors have to have both courage and resources to enforce their rights, especially against iconic donees. Fortunately, the Robertsons had both.” Bill Josephson, Former head of the Charities Bureau, New York State Attorney General’s officeThis book is based on extensive research and interviews with leading attorneys Victoria Bjorklund and Douglas Eakeley (Princeton) and Ron Malone and Seth Lapidow (Robertson family), experts for both sides, representatives of other major nonprofits, philanthropists, and high-profile public figures including George H.W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, Chuck Robb, and Paul Volcker.

Abusing Donor Intent: The Robertson Family's Epic Lawsuit Against Princeton University

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Paragon_House

Wounded Charity offers valuable insights into how charities respond to crises based on information no one else has ever covered: documentation from the charity during and after the crisis, as well as candid discussions and interviews with some former members of the charity's board, executive staff, beneficiaries, and even those who generated or published damaging information. On its primary, story-telling level, Wounded Charity investigates the effort to marginalize one of America's most vital charities. Its broader level is about what it means for all charities. Wounded Warrior Project is large, important, and effective, and it serves wounded veterans in ways that other charities cannot and that the government does not, and probably never will. This cautionary, provocative narrative describes how WWP came to be so heavily criticized, why much of the criticism was unfounded, why those ultimately in charge of the charity - the board members - failed to do their job, and how individuals and the media need to revise their thinking about what works and what doesn't work in a sector of our society whose tangible accomplishments, despite steadily increasing philanthropic support, largely remain a mystery. It is also a story of leadership, and the discordancy of punishing, as opposed to rewarding, good ideas and effective management.

Wounded Charity: Lessons Learned from the Wounded Warrior Project Crisis

A beginner's guide to personal computers offers a survey of available software and hardware and advises readers on how to purchase the system that fits their needs, including product comparisons, buyers' tips, and advice on printers

Introduction to Personal Computers

Murray, Katherine

Shafer, Tony

Computers & Technology

Que Pub

While the nation's love affair with charities is strong and continuing, the increase in indicting news stories over the past several years (including this year's Senate Finance Committee's hearings on the subject) has heightened the public's interest, as well as its cynicism. In the midst of such scrutiny, Charity on Trial seeks to demystify what donors and others should expect from the charitable sector.

Charity on Trial: What You Need to Know Before You Contribute

Barricade Books

This book provides a quick overview of how to use Visual C++ Standard Edition, which is bundled with the text. It will assist the reader in using the technology, but is not designed to teach the student how to program in Visual C++. It covers a variety of topics, including: installing Visual C++; creating C++ files; compiling; debugging source code for both syntax and logic errors; creating different file types in Visual C++; working with projects and workspaces; starting to use Visual C++ quickly through tutorials

Starting Out Quickly with Visual C++

Scott/Jones

Starting Out Quickly with Visual C++.Net (2nd Edition)

Software

Addison-Wesley

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