Book Excerpts

Excerpts of top books on social innovation

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Collaboration

The Collective Impact of Suspending Suspensions

By Suzanne Bohan

An excerpt of Twenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How the Challenge Inequity

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How “Charity” Became “Philanthropy”

By Robert M. Penna 2

Braided Threads traces the fascinating history of America’s nonprofit sector.

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Sustainable Disruption

By Michael Lenox & Aaron Chatterji

An excerpt from Can Business Save the Earth?: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability

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A New Framework for Sustainability

By David Grayson, Chris Coulter & Mark Lee 1

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Five Industry-Changing Principles from India

By Vijay Govindarajan (VG) & Ravi Ramamurti

An excerpt from Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How To Make Value-Based Delivery Work

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Book Reviews

Reviews of top books on social innovation

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas

Philanthropy & Funding

Are the Elite Hijacking Social Change?

Review By Mark Kramer 12

In Winners Take All, writer Anand Giridharadas calls out the hypocrisies of philanthropists.

Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy, by Paul Brest and Hal Harvey

Philanthropy & Funding

Strategic Philanthropy Reconsidered

Review By Katherine Fulton

The authors of Money Well Spent reconsider their original arguments a second time around.

Equality for Women = Prosperity for All, by Augusto Lopez-Claros and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

Economic Development

Domesticity’s Gross Product

Review By Alyson Colón

The authors of Equality for Women = Prosperity for All expose the economic wastefulness of gender inequity.

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