Sample Materials

Below are a few examples of invitation letters, reading lists, discussion plans and texts.

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Invitation Letters

• Nonprofit Leaders in Northeast Florida
• Civic Leaders in Valparaiso Indiana

Reading Lists and Discussion Questions from Past Programs

• Giving in the American Experience
• Rotary 14: Reflective Philanthropy
• Hilltop Neighborhood House Board Conversation
• Changing Leaders, Leading Change
• The St. Louis Women Leaders Group
• Uplifting (Nonprofit) Leadership
• Illinois AmeriCorps: Justice Talking
• Oregon AmeriCorps: Clasping Hands
• A Conversation with Youth
• Common Threads: Social Service Providers
• All in a Day's Work: Child Welfare Providers
• Stewardship & Clinical Practice: Mental Health Clinicians

The Short List

• "On-the-Spot" Readings and Questions

The Spanish List

Texts from our Resource Library in Spanish Translation

• Laws Concerning Gifts to the Poor
  by Moses Maimonides
• Self-Reliance (excerpt)
  by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Eleventh
  by Henri Barbusse
• What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About Service
  by Adam Davis

Sample Discussion Plans

• The Bishop's Beggar
• The Four Traditions with Giving Autobiography
• Tocqueville's Democracy in America
• The Eleventh
• Mending Wall

Readings

• "Four Traditions of Philanthropy"
  by Elizabeth M. Lynn and D. Susan Wisely
• "Only Reflect: A Philanthropic Education for our Time"
  by Elizabeth M. Lynn and D. Susan Wisely
• "What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About Service"
  by Adam Davis