Travelers' Philanthropy Handbook - Center for Responsible Travel

AcknowledgementsThe idea to do this Handbook was born at the December 2008 International Travelers’Philanthropy Conference in Arusha, Tanzania. We at the Center for Responsible Travel(CREST) collaborated with Basecamp Foundation, one of our main partners for the Arushaconference, in putting together the outline and discussing the Handbook’s content. We aregrateful especially to Basecamp’s Lars Lindkvist and Judy Kepher-Gona. Their insights asthoughtful practitioners of travelers’ philanthropy have been vital in making sure that theHandbook meets the needs of tourism businesses, communities and local organizations, andtravelers. In addition, we are grateful that, with the help of Lars and his wife Wanjira, we wereable to receive a wonderful Foreword from Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Wangari Maathai.The Handbook has grown in scope and size from our original vision, as we identified moretopics that needed to be included. In the end, over 30 people contributed and almost all theessays, case studies, and surveys presented here were written, or substantially revised andupdated, specifically for this Handbook. We are pleased and honored to have so much originalmaterial from many of the leading experts in this field. We thank each of you for yourcontributions and your patience in dealing with various rounds of editing. Special thanks goes toJane Crouch who contributed multiple essays to the volume, based on her expertise indeveloping and managing Intrepid Travel’s exemplary travelers’ philanthropy initiatives.We also thank all the contributors and others connected with CREST’s Travelers’ Philanthropyprogram who gave us permission to use the photos in the Handbook.CREST Co-Director Martha Honey took the lead on this project, with day to day work on theHandbook carried out most centrally by Whitney Cooper who continued to play an active role inits layout, even after she had left our organization. We have also been assisted in various waysby CREST Sr. Manager David Krantz and a revolving door of competent and committed interns,including Johanna Wolff, Ross Lowry, Chi Lo, Milan Gamble, Daniel Fridman, Megan Swords,Adriana Alarcon, Francisco Martinez, and Yongjoo Shin.We were most fortunate, during the final months, to secure the help of Sandra Tassel, atalented writer, researcher, and editor, as well as an avid eco-traveler, who skillfully copy editedthe entire manuscript, smoothing out many rough sections and rewriting several major chunks.Finally, the Handbook would not have been possible without the financial support of ourcorporate and foundation underwriters. A number of these are long time friends andcollaborations and we thank you, once again, for your support. We are especially grateful toStefan Norris of the Lennox Foundation and Raymond Gilpin of the United States Institute ofPeace, both of whom promoted the Handbook project within their two institutions.We hope this Travelers’ Philanthropy Handbook will be useful to tourism businesses andassociations, local and international organizations, travelers (both active and armchair),academics, governments, and others involved specifically in travelers’ philanthropy and morebroadly in the fields of philanthropy, responsible travel, and sustainable development.On behalf of the Center for Responsible Travel,Martha Honey, Ph.D.Co-Director, Washington, DCWilliam H. DurhamCo-Director, Stanford Universityii