Philanthropy Charity category: 319 books
A Selfish Plan to Change the World
Finding Big Purpose in Big Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
You are exactly what the world needs
What if your search for meaning could solve the world’s problems? What if everything you are passionate about could save a life or change history? Justin Dillon argues it can, and A Selfish Plan to Change the World shows how.
In this paradigm-shifting...
by Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street...
The Red Bandanna
A Life. A Choice. A Legacy.
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**A New York Times bestseller
What would you do in the last hour of your life?**
The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage
One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave...
SuperCorp
How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the answer to the global crisis of business and American-style capitalism.
Out of the ashes of conventional business models arises a set of companies using their power not only for profits and sustainable growth but also social good.
If you think business corporations...
by Andrew Carnegie
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Words of wisdom from American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
Focusing on Carnegie's most famous essay, "The Gospel of Wealth," this book of his writings, published here together for the first time, demonstrates the late steel magnate's beliefs on wealth, poverty, the public good,...
A Path Appears
Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.
In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles...
The Generosity Network
New Transformational Tools for Successful Fund-Raising
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The Generosity Network is the essential guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause.Philanthropist Jeff Walker and fund-raising expert Jennifer McCrea offer a fresh new perspective that can make the toughest challenges of nonprofit management and development less...
Do the KIND Thing
Think Boundlessly, Work Purposefully, Live Passionately
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
For the socially conscious, the intellectually curious, or the creative soul comes an inspiring, New York Times bestselling handbook for success in business, life, and the all-important task of building a more compassionate world—by the visionary founder and CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks.
When...
Leading from Within
Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A roadmap for integrating mindfulness into every aspect of social change: how to lead transformation with compassion for the needs and perspectives of all people.
Gretchen Steidle knows first-hand the personal transformation that mindfulness practice can bring. But she doesn't believe that...
Lean Impact
How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Despite enormous investments of time and money, are we making a dent on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact?
Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business,...
In Pursuit of the Common Good
Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Shameless exploitation has never been more fun nor done more good for more people than when done by Newman’s Own—the first green food company to use all-natural ingredients, and still the most successful.
It was 1982 when Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner made their foray into local gourmet...
Simple Giving
Easy Ways to Give Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
You can make a difference on a daily basis, and it’s not as difficult as you might think. Simple Giving includes more than 40 ideas to make the world a better place.
Most people think they have to donate a lot of time and money in order to make a difference. But there are simple ways to integrate...
Real Impact
The New Economics of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A leading investment professional explains the world of impact investing--investing in businesses and projects with a social and financial return--and shows what it takes to make sustainable, transformative change.
Impact investment--the support of social and environmental projects with a financial...
A Secret Gift
How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of t he Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
An inspiring account of America at its worst-and Americans at their best-woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the author's generous and secretive grandfather.
Shortly before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad offered...