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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Advocacy - Book Reviews
Innovative ways to influence public policy
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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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Human Rights
Peddling Diversity
Nancy Leong’s Identity Capitalists reveals the profit motives of diversity and inclusion strategies.
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Technology
The Complicated Revolution
Sociologist Jen Schradie reveals how digital activism empowers defenders of the status quo.
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Advocacy
What’s Right with Kansas
In No Place Like Home: Lessons from Activism in LGBT Kansas, C. J. Janovy offers up progressive lessons in a red state.
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Economic Development
Domesticity’s Gross Product
The authors of Equality for Women = Prosperity for All expose the economic wastefulness of gender inequity.
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Civic Engagement
Road Map to a New World
In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms argue that power and influence are being driven by a new participatory and peer-driven paradigm.
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Advocacy
Winning Hearts and Minds
The road to social change begins with personal connection and human emotion, Leslie Crutchfield writes in How Change Happens.
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Philanthropy & Funding
A Rational Gut Check
A Yale psychologist offers a passionate account of the negative effects of passion but ends up with a more temperate conclusion.
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Economic Development
A More Perfect Union?
New ideas on how to empower US workers involve breaking free of current labor law.