Description
A guide to how giving can be the key to happiness—combining the latest research with firsthand accounts from Goldie Hawn, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, and others.
As a Philanthropy advisor, Jenny Santi has met some of the world’s most notable and inspiring change-makers. Despite their diverse backgrounds, each of these people has related to Santi that the thing in their life that has given them the most joy is the simple act of giving. In this inspiring book, Santi shares their stories – how they found purpose, healed from past wounds, and discovered meaning beyond material success – as well as her own personal struggles in finding happiness in order to inspire readers to discover the power of giving in their own lives.
Told firsthand by such notable people as Academy Award winner Goldie Hawn, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp, philanthropist Richard Rockefeller, environmentalist Philippe Cousteau, and many others, the stories in this book make an eloquent and passionate case that oftentimes the answers to the problems that haunt us, and the key to the happiness that eludes us, lie in helping others.
In this book you will discover:
- How altruism activates the same pleasure centers of the brain stimulated by food, sex, and drugs
- Practical, universally applicable lessons on what kind of giving makes people happy and what doesn’t.
- How to give your time, talents, and treasures in ways that are more impact-oriented, energizing, and rewarding than ever
In this inspiring book, Santi reveals giving is the secret to living a life that is full of meaning, purpose, and happiness.
About the Author
Jenny Santi is a trusted philanthropy advisor to notable ultra high net worth philanthropists, celebrity activists and foundations worldwide. Through her work she helps her clients channel their wealth, power and influence towards social good. By age 28 she became the Head of UBS’s award-winning Philanthropy Services department in Southeast Asia, and within less than a year of independent practice at her consulting firm Saint & Partners, already serves clients including an Oscar-winning actress, signatories of the Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge, and several prominent foundations in the USA and Switzerland.She has organized numerous philanthropy events, including the much-acclaimed UBS Global Philanthropy Forums, and led together with INSEAD the largest study on Asian family philanthropy. A former university lecturer, she is a frequent media commentator and event moderator on the topic of giving. Jenny did her MBA at INSEAD and Wharton; and graduated summa cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University. She attended New York University's Heyman Center for Philanthropy & Fundraising, and is a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy. She is the Regional Advisor to Asia at the (Goldie) Hawn Foundation, a Mentor at The HUB in Singapore, a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD, and a
member of the Steering Committee of the Philanthropy in Asia Summit in Singapore.She is the author of "The Giving Way to Happiness," coming soon from Penguin Random House.
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