Book Reviews | Civic Engagement
Housing Density for Whom?
Max Holleran’s Yes to the City examines millennials’ demands for more housing and a new road map for urban growth.
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Book Reviews
Reviews of top books on social innovation
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Book Reviews | Leadership
Radically Inclusive Changemaking and Its Limits
Alex Budak’s Becoming a Changemaker expands an already expansive concept, yet his argument reinforces the hero myth that still dominates social innovation.
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Book Reviews | Government
The Right to Intimate Privacy
The Fight for Privacy investigates how governments and businesses violate and profit from our personal lives online.
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Book Reviews | Education
Cultivating, Seeding, and Planting a Better World
Ruha Benjamin argues that the social change we seek begins within the individual.
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Book Reviews | Civic Engagement
Bridging Partisan Divides
Mónica Guzmán’s I Never Thought of It That Way offers lessons for managing the contentious conversations of our increasingly polarized society.
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Book Reviews | Nonprofits & NGOs
Grantmaking as Governance
Claire Dunning’s Nonprofit Neighborhoods examines how the US government funded the growth of—and delegated governance to—the nonprofit sector.
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Book Reviews | Scaling
When Scaling Goes Wrong
John List’s The Voltage Effect offers advice for companies looking to hit it big, but does the endless pursuit of scale produce more harm than good?
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Book Reviews | Philanthropy & Funding
Parrying Philanthropy’s Critics
Beth Breeze’s In Defence of Philanthropy offers a passionate rebuttal to criticisms of giving that have dominated public discourse.
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Book Reviews | Advocacy
Justice Without Violence
Arguing that police reform is impossible, Derecka Purnell charts an alternative path to building safer communities and a more just world.
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Book Reviews | Environment
Getting to Zero
Authors Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff call for disruptive innovations and radical reconfiguration of industries to decarbonize the planet by 2050.