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well timed and undying - an exceptional method to describe Richard Marker's simply published booklet, asserting "Yes" correctly: Insights for the considerate Philanthropist.

Saying "Yes", a set of Marker's essays written over the last ten years, lays out his imaginative and prescient of what considerate and accountable philanthropy could be. His life of diverse studies has taught him that "it will be not easy to assert `no' graciously, however it is even tougher to assert `yes' properly. Addressing actual concerns, together with relatives legacies, Marker doesn't draw back from debatable themes and during this assortment is helping funders to be extra considerate concerning the judgements they should make.

Here's an excerpt:

"If it truly is demanding to decline graciously, it really is even more durable to claim sure correctly. In reviewing eligible proposals, the choices turn into even more durable. In my profession, i've been an government within the now not for revenue area, taught on the college point, consulted within the for-profit quarter, and served on quite a few forums. but, as a origin govt, i'm regularly struck via how little i do know. There are probably magnificent initiatives which we can't properly overview simply because we lack the services, and whose worthy can't be confirmed until a funder takes an opportunity. a few rules and tasks could swap the realm, or at the very least a few small a part of it; others could be mess ups, wonderful or differently. a few are prestigious and secure; others may well develop into the following good thing. With constrained money and extra constrained prophecy at our disposal, every one authorized supply is a well-placed wager. With the entire analytic talents that trustees, application officials, and evaluators deliver to undergo, it really is continuously human judgment that's the ultimate arbiter."

- D. Brown, Amazon.com reviewer