1. Why does generosity feel good?
2. The mistakes we make
3. What kind of donor are you?
4. The benefits of a giving strategy

Workbook 1A: The 80/20 rule
Workbook 1B: What sort of donor are you

Choose your Cause and Issue Area

1. Choosing a cause
2. Selecting an issue area
3. Validating your choice

Workbook 2A: Your Venn diagram
Workbook 2B: Validating your choice

What Pathways to Change Should You Support?

1. Framing an issue
2. Understanding an issue within its ecosystem
3. Drawing a landscape map

Workbook 3A: Understanding your chose issue(s)
Workbook 3B: Landscape map of your chosen issue

Case Study 1 and Interactive Exercise: “Youth Unemployment in Kenya”
Case Study 2: Wicked Problems – Solving homelessness in Orange County, CA

1. Good Vs. great solutions
2. Community-based solutions
3. Policy based solutions
4. Market-based solutions
5. Capacity building

Workbook 4: The Change you want to support
Case Study: Advocacy on a Shoestring – The “Bedrooms of London” campaign

The American Charitable Sector

1. Public charities
2. Donors
3. Smart Donors

Case Study: Myth Buster-The Overhead Myth

The Importance of Measurement and Evaluation

1. Measuring Results
2. Evaluating Results
3. Making the most difference

Interactive Exercise 1: Measuring
Interactive Exercise 2: Evaluating

Workbook 6: Your theory of change, your shortlist, which one is making the most difference?

Case Study: Myth Buster- Cost per head

Selecting the organization or program to support

1. Viewing charities through an equity lens
2. What you should ask of a high performing organization

Workbook 7A: Are those central to the problems closest to their solutions?

Case Study and Interactive Exercise 1: In the steps of a donor – The case of the confusing names
Case Study and Interactive Exercise 2: Big, Medium or Small? – Supporting heart health

Workbook 7B: Selecting a high performing organization

Workbook: Your Smart Donor Toolbox