Winning Gifts

Winning Gifts
Author: Thomas C. Wilson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2008-01-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470128348

The secret to getting gifts and making donors feel like winners. Know the best approaches to people-centered fundraising. Understand the role of executive director, fundraisers, program managers, and volunteers in the win-win framework, the importance of listening, the case for a donor-centered approach, and the direct ways these concepts can be applied in a variety of fundraising settings. Includes numerous real-world examples taken from the author's own experience as chief philanthropy officer in nonprofits and as a leader in a well-known national nonprofit consulting company. Thomas D. Wilson is the vice president and western regional manager for Campbell & Company. His career in fundraising spans more than 25 years and includes building successful campaigns from inception, reinvigorating stalled initiatives, and board/staff training.

How to Survive Your Freshman Year

How to Survive Your Freshman Year
Author: Mark W. Bernstein
Publisher: Hundreds of Heads Books, LLC
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1933512776

“provides student viewpoints and expert advice ... After reading this book students will be aware of the realities of college life and be better prepared to shape their own unique college experience." ―Journal of College Orientation and Transition “The perfect send-off present for the student who is college bound. The book manages to be hilarious and helpful. As an added bonus, it’s refreshingly free of sanctimony.” ―The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) How to Survive Your Freshman Year (6th edition) is the perfect send-off gift for college-bound high school graduates. This revamped edition of America's #1 college advice guide includes new advice from hundreds of college students from around the country, alongside the best timeless advice from earlier editions. This ultimate “insider’s guide” to college life helps entering freshmen navigate the challenging transition to college life. The book also features expert advice from college advisers and administrators, mental health professionals and others.

Invisible Gifts

Invisible Gifts
Author: Maw Shein Win
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2018-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781945665080

Themes of vulnerability and power emerge through reflections on family, art, and loss from an award-winning poet

Gifts of the Crow

Gifts of the Crow
Author: John Marzluff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1439198748

Offers insight into crows' ability to make tools and respond to environmental challenges, explaining how they engage in human-like behaviors, from giving gifts and seeking revenge to playing and experiencing dreams.

Flying High

Flying High
Author: Michelle Meadows
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250819946

A lyrical picture book biography of Simone Biles, gymnastics champion and Olympic superstar. Before she was a record-breaking gymnast competing on the world stage, Simone Biles spent time in foster care as a young child. Nimble and boundlessly energetic, she cherished every playground and each new backyard. When she was six years old, Simone's family took shape in a different way. Her grandparents Ron and Nellie Biles adopted Simone and her sister Adria. Ron and Nellie became their parents. Simone was also introduced to gymnastics that same year, launching a lifelong passion fueled by remarkable talent, sacrifice, and the undying support of her family. From her athletic early childhood to the height of her success as an Olympic champion, Flying High is the story of the world's greatest gymnast from author Michelle Meadows and illustrator Ebony Glenn.

Brain Quest Grade 3, revised 4th edition

Brain Quest Grade 3, revised 4th edition
Author: Chris Welles Feder
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 076116653X

Brain Quest is beloved by kids, trusted by parents, used and recommended by teachers. It’s the curriculum-based, fast-paced, question-and-answer game that challenges kids on the stuff they need to know, when they need to know it. It’s the brand that says “It’s fun to be smart!” And it delivers. For the fourth edition every deck is thoroughly revised and includes 20 percent new material. The content aligns with national and state standards and is overseen by the Brain Quest Advisory Board, a panel of award-winning educators, each a recent state teacher-of-the-year award winner or a recipient of the prestigious Milken Educator Award. The covers and cards have a refreshed design, giving Brain Quest a cooler, updated look.

The Highlights Book of Things to Do

The Highlights Book of Things to Do
Author: Highlights
Publisher: Highlights Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1901
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1644722453

The Highlights Book of Things to Do is the essential book of pure creativity and inspiration. Kids ages seven and up will find hundreds of ways to build, play, experiment, craft, cook, dream, think, and become outstanding citizens of the world. This highly visual, hands-on activity book shows kids some of the best ways to do great things--from practicing the lost arts of knot-tying, building campfires, connecting circuits, playing jump rope, drawing maps, and writing letters, to learning how to empower themselves socially, emotionally, and in their communities. The final chapter, Do Great Things, inspires kids become caring individuals, confident problem solvers, and thoughtful people who can change the world. Full List of Chapters: Things to Do Inside Things to Do Outside Science Experiments to Do Things to Build Things to Do with Your Brain Things to Do in the Kitchen Things to Draw Things to Write Things to Do with Color Things to Do with Paper More Things to Do with Recycled Materials Do Great Things National Parenting Seal of Approval Winner, National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner, Mom's Choice Award, Gold

A Season of Gifts

A Season of Gifts
Author: Richard Peck
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-10-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0142417297

One of the most adored characters in children's literature is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma Dowdel, star of the Newbery Award-winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago. And it turns out that her story isn't over. It's now 1958, and a new family has moved in next door to Mrs. Dowdel: a minister and his wife and kids. Soon Mrs. Dowdel will work her particular brand of charm on all of them, and they will quickly discover that the last house in town might also be the most vital.

Gifts 2

Gifts 2
Author: Kathryn Lynard Soper
Publisher: Special Needs Collection
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Children with mental disabilities
ISBN: 9781890627966

Includes more than seventy inspirational essays from family, friends, teachers, coaches, and medical professionals who recount the gifts--acceptance, courage, friendship, awareness and the joy they receive from knowing and caring about someone with Down Syndrome.

Simple Gifts

Simple Gifts
Author: Chris Raschka
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2001-09-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0805068171

A Shaker hymn about acceptance and sharing.