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Profile of a PartiCiPant family Auctions ...wait, what?

Heifer International is very smart about how they implement their programs. With such far-reaching Click for everything!
programs that touch thousands of lives each, this is an absolute must. So they’ve developed some tools We know! Our auctions ended on Thursday, right?
and metrics to use when assessing issues and planning how to get a program underway, including which Well, yes and no—our main auctions ended Thursday (and we shipped everything out yesterday),
applicants to focus on. but there are still a couple official auctions running, just in case you’d like another shot at grabbing
In our last issue, we laid out their basic framework for how they plan a program. The people who will be
participating in these programs once they begin are usually highly vulnerable, and it’s Heifer’s goal to give some awesome books this year!
them the power, knowledge, and resources they need to advance through these three stages: Our One of Everything from DAW Books was late out of the gate, but we didn’t want to short-
change anyone on time, so we gave it the full 10 days, and it ends tomorrow evening.

HIGHLY VULNERABLE SITUATION The Unfettered Hardcover ARC is actually an auction run by the fine folks over at Grim Oak
• Low income, unable to meet basic needs Press, who will be donating all proceeds from the auction through their fundraiser Team Page to
• Limited access to financial services make sure Heifer International still gets it.
• Food insecurity with a high level of malnutrition, due to a lack of access to healthy resources There’s about a day left, so head over to eBay and see what’s on the block!
• Lack of effective natural resource management
• Very low level of participation of women in decision-making
• Women do not have access to or control over income or productive assets
• Male family members migrate to urban areas for work, leaving women and children in a vulnerable One of Everything from DAW Books
situation
Donated by DAW Books

LESS VULNERABLE SITUATION DAW Books always sends an amazing bunch of
• Medium income derived from agricultural activities books for us every year, including at least one of
• Access to land and some community resources everything they published in the 12 months leading
• Encouragement of local economy through the sale of some surplus to local markets up to our fundraiser. This year is no exception!
• Have some savings and limited access to formal financing This auction is for one of every book DAW published
• Application of sustainable agriculture practices in 2018. That’s 52 glorious books.
• Takes part in managing the natural resources in their plots and the community See this auction!
• Women make small decisions regarding day to day living in the household, but cannot make major
decisions such as investment or expenditures
• Women have some control over the income they earn

SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS Rare Unfettered hardcover ARC
• Stable and diversified sources of income
• Ownership of secure and productive land Donated by Grim Oak Press
• Access to formal finances and savings with use of financial and extension services This auction is for a super-rare hardcover ARC of
• Food and income levels are adequate enough to meet year-round food security Unfettered, signed by contributing authors Patrick
• Low level of malnutrition, can afford nutritionally balanced and culturally appropriate food for all
family members Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, Jacqueline Carey,
• Practices agro-ecological farming and has access to sustainable production systems and technology Terry Brooks, Peter Orullian, Todd Lockwood,
• Women are empowered to make decisions at household and community level and editor Shawn Speakman. It’s a great start (or
• Women have access to and control over productive assets addition) to your autograph collection!
See this auction!
By the time a family reaches a sustainable livelihood, they will not only be able to thrive, but they will have
the resources and, inspired by their own success, the motivation to help other families in their community.

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