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“peter karoff”

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  • A Generous Life

    Reflections on Inspired Giving

    by Peter Karoff ...
    A bold and imaginative guide for donors who want to make their giving more meaningful, from a pioneering thinker in the field of philanthropy.In 1989, Peter Karoff, a businessman with a passion for social justice, had an idea that would fuse his financial expertise with his drive for doing good: He would found a nonprofit consulting firm—among the first of its kind in the country—to help donors ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World We Want

    New Dimensions in Philanthropy and Social Change

    by Peter Karoff, Jane Maddox, John Abele, Henry Becton, Dave Bergholz, Lucy Bernholz, Angelica Berrie, Deepak Bhargava, Allen Bildner, Alan Broadbent, Bob Buford, Emmett Carson, Steve Case, Elyse Cherry, Phil Cubeta, Bill Drayton, Peggy Dulany, Rory Francisco-Tolentino, Bob Hohler, Rob Hollister, John Isaacson, Henry Izumizaki, Alan Khazei, Marcos Kisil, Martin Lehfeldt, Margaret Leonard, Leslie Lilly, Ted Mallon, Melinda Marble, Cora Marret, Stephen Melville, Jack Murrah, Jim O'Connell, Pierre Omidyar, Jono Quick, Chuck Slosser, Shirley Strong, Tom Tierney, Priya Viswanath, Peter White, Chad Wick ...
    In The World We Want, Peter Karoff presents a collective vision of an ideal world. By sharing his experiences and through conversations with more than forty social entrepreneurs, activists, nonprofit leaders, and philanthropists who are changing notions of 'the human condition' in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America, he describes how new partnerships and approaches are ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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    From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies

    by Otto Scharmer, Katrin Kaufer ...
    The author of Theory U shares a practical guide for leaders who want to forge a path to a better future for the world.We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. In Leading from the Emerging Future, Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer show us how to lead the shift out of an economy ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Conscious Capitalism

    Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

    by John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia ...
    As seen on Oprah’s Super Soul SundayA New York Times and Wall Street Journal BestsellerIn this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today’s best-known companies, they illustrate how these two forces can-and do-work most powerfully to create ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abundant Community

    Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

    by John McKnight ...
    We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, ... Read more

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  • The Answer to How Is Yes

    Acting on What Matters

    by Peter Block ...
    Modern culture’s worship of “how-to” pragmatism has turned us into instruments of efficiency and commerce—but we’re doing more and more about things that mean less and less. We constantly ask “how? and still struggle to find purpose and act on what matters. Instead of acting on what we know to be of importance, we wait for bosses to change, we seek the latest fad, we invest in one more degree. ... Read more

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  • The Culture of the New Capitalism

    by Richard Sennett ...
    The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life-how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how ... Read more

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    by Joan Goldsmith, Warren G. Bennis ...
    From leadership expert Warren Bennis, a workbook to help anyone reach their full potential as a leader.Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith maintain that leaders are not born, they are made-in fact, anyone can develop the skills to transform their lives and their organizations. In Learning to Lead, these leadership experts have created a program that enables students, staff, managers, executives, ... Read more

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  • Change Here Now

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    Award-winning social entrepreneur and permaculturalist Adam Brock draws from ecology, sociology, community economics, social justice, and indigenous practices the world over to present more than eighty proven solutions for building healthy communities. Using the "pattern language" framework developed by architect Christopher Alexander and his colleagues in the 1970s, Brock outlines strategies for ... Read more

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  • Make Your Own Job

    How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

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  • For Goodness' Sake

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    by Chris Houston ...
    For generations, we’ve only asked business to deliver profits – but not anymore.Consumers and employees are demanding that business deliver social value as well as financial value, yet our companies are ill-equipped to successfully attempt this critical pivot.If you want to put profit to work for purpose, this book will help. Find out how you can help your company become a vital force for good by ... Read more

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  • The Big Shift

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    Marc Freedman, hailed by theNew York Timesas "the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life," makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are -- an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years.In The Big Shift, Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion ... Read more

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