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When Everyone's a Volunteer: The Effective Functioning of All-Volunteer Groups
"Provides an innovative framework for successfully leading an all-volunteer effort, whether it's a service club, community group, PTA, or religious congregation. Scheier challenges conventional wisdom about boards, fundraising, and membership development when applied to grassroots volunteer efforts. A highlight of the book is a collection of easy-to-conduct group interaction exercises."
The Volunteer Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Successful Organization
"Richard Battle has written a guidebook for volunteers. He has provided well thought out and organized suggestions for getting involved in a volunteer organization. He then gives the reader a plan of action for moving into leadership within your chosen organization. The book is also a valuable refresher course for established volunteers. This is a positive how to handbook. Battle has written with insight."
Change the World: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Results
"A University of Michigan professor and author (Deep Change, among others) has the audacity to state that previous strategies for change are ineffective, positing a fourth--called ACT, or Advanced Change Theory--that includes and transcends the rest. Quinn starts with a holy triumvirate of heroes who, in themselves, are difficult to naysay--Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King--and then are quoted at the beginning of each chapter. His message is clear: to become a change agent, you must first change yourself and then immerse yourself in the common good, disturb the system, and set the truth free."
The Grassfire Effect: How One Small Spark Can Change Your World
"What does it take to change the world? Just a simple idea that starts out as a spark, becomes a flame, and grows into a grassfire that multiplies. This is Steve Elliott's testimony, and he can show you how your sparks of creativity can become world-changing ideas and actions. Using his personal journey as a backdrop, you learn the lessons Steve has learned that led to the discovery and implementation of Grassfire.org-one as one of the nation's largest and fastest growing citizen action organizations. More importantly, The Grassfire Effect shows you how to apply the grassfire effect to your own life and release those sparks of ideas that can change your world."
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
"Journalist Bornstein profiles nine indomitable champions of social change who developed innovative ways to address needs they saw around them in places as distinct as Bombay, India; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and inner-city Washington, D.C. As these nine grew influential when their ingenious ideas proved ever more widely successful, they came to the attention of Ashoka, an organization that sponsors a fellows program to foster social innovation by finding so-called social entrepreneurs to support. As Bornstein interviewed these and many other Ashoka fellows, he saw patterns in the ways they fought to solve their specifically local problems."
We Can Change the World: The Real Meaning of Everyday Life
"Human nature supposedly reflects the historical world which shapes it. Yet in our own world of competition, greed, and conflict, ordinary people everywhere strive in countless small ways and against all odds to form humane, cooperative, and friendly relationships with their fellows. This obvious but largely unacknowledged fact lies at the heart of David Stratman's comprehensive vision of true democratic revolution."