Breakthrough Community Change
A Guide to Creating Common Agendas That Change Everything
$43.01
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
16 May 2023
Summary
Discover a powerful methodology for bringing communities together to uncover hidden assets and transform deep-rooted challenges.
Veteran community organizer Paul Born’s work has contributed to lowering cancer rates in Maine, improving mental health for young people in Florida, and reducing poverty rates in Canada by 20 percent. In this much-needed new book, he shares stories of how he was able to catalyze local communities and guide them to make significant progress on seemingly intra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781523002177 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1523002174 |
| Author: | Paul Born |
| Publisher: | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
| Imprint: | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2023 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 216mm x 141mm |
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“Paul Born, the head of the institute, emphasizes that the crucial thing these communitywide collective impact structures do is change attitudes. In the beginning it’s as if everybody is swimming in polluted water. People are sluggish, fearful, isolated, looking out only for themselves. But when people start working together across sectors around a common agenda, it’s like cleaning the water”.
—David Brooks, from his New York Times column “Winning the War on Poverty,” 4 April 2019.
“Award-winning social entrepreneur Paul Born is one of the most creative anti-poverty leaders of his generation. Unwilling to surrender to a problem many consider intractable, he brings singular commitment and expertise to the fight. In Breakthrough Community Change, he shares those insights with organizations, equipping them to collaborate, change failing systems and achieve impact at scale.”
—Melody C. Barnes, Chair, Aspen Forum for Community Solutions; Executive Director, Karsh Institute of Democracy, University of Virginia; and former director, White House Domestic Policy Council
About The Author
Paul Born
Paul Born is the cofounder and former CEO and co-CEO at Tamarack Institute, a leading authority on the ideas and practice of community engagement, collective impact, and community innovation. He is also the founder and past CEO of Vibrant Communities, now active in over 500 municipalities with campaigns to end poverty, deepen community, build youth futures, and tackle climate change. In 2019 Born was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada; he is also a senior fellow at Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social innovators. He is the author of five books.
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