The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
Roger Thurow
(New York, New York : PublicAffairs, 2012)
Emily Keller reviews Roger Thurow's account of a year in the life of a small farming community in rural Kenya and what one social entrepreneur is doing to end hunger and malnutrition in East Africa....
Posted on November 29, 2012
Changing Business From the Inside Out: A Treehugger's Guide to Working in Corporations
Timothy J. Mohin
(San Francisco, California : Berrett-Koehler, 2012)
Timothy Mohin, who has worked for nearly two decades in the corporate social responsibility field, shares his optimism for that philanthropic model and its current growth and potential; we critique his view....
Posted on October 10, 2012
Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Change the World
Dan Pallotta
(San Francisco, California : Jossey-Bass, 2012)
We review Dan Pallotta's new book, which argues that social sector organizations have to jettison outdated notions about overhead and marketing if they hope to succeed....
Posted on September 19, 2012
A Memoir of the Ford Foundation: The Early Years
Evelyn C. Walsh, Verne S. Atwater
(New York, NY : Vantage Press, 2012)
Matt Sinclair reviews a new memoir about the early history of the Ford Foundation including its support of leadership and documentary film initiatives, global human rights groups in the Southern Hemisphere, and expanded learning time in public schools, as well as its launch in 1936 as a corporate foundation with a modest endowment of $25,000...
Posted on August 9, 2012
The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking
Eli Broad
(Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons, 2012)
Regina Mahone reviews philanthropist Eli Broad's new memoir about his life and the characteristics that took him from a job as an accountant in Detroit to fame and fortune....
Posted on July 12, 2012
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