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Title: The Cathedral Within : Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back by Bill Shore ISBN: 0-375-75829-1 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Right on the mark
Comment: This is a book that touches the heart of both important social issues and the reader. Written in a wonderfully open style the author writes from a perspective of sharing rather than preaching. Bill Shore's approach of tying his view of how the issues of today's society can be most effectively addressed to his personal experiences, rather than theory and conjecture, brings substantial credibility to his writings.
The issues addressed are those of scaling the resources of non-profit, public service, organizations to meet the growing needs of our society in the face of shrinking government resources. The notion of making non-profit organizations self-sufficient is well outlined and easily understood. "The Cathedral Within" is a book that left me feeling encouraged to know that there is not only room for improvemnt in our social structure but that it is being aggressively and effectively pursued.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not just for non-profits
Comment: Bill Shore's enlightening book, "Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back" is not just about non-profits. It provides insight into every part of human life. He spikes the book with advice about marriage, child care, and friendships. The book, in my opinion, has less to do with non-profits and more to do with living a great life. It is certainly a must read by anyone who cares about humanity.
Rating: 4
Summary: Building A Soul For Business
Comment: Perhaps the most important points that this book makes are 1) If you can't build the structure, add a few bricks! and 2) Community Wealth and Social Capital are re-inventing business from the soul out!
In this well-written book, Shore (Founder of Share Our Strength) uses the model of a cathedral to demonstrate that large dreams are community efforts that reach beyond personal lifetimes to accomplish, and that appear impossible until the collective brainpower of the community engages to find a solution. This metaphor addresses the "perfectionism" that sometimes stops people from making efforts towards social change. In the inspirational stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, readers feel the passion that rebounds of the pages. Echoing the human voice for meaning in an increasingly digital and isolated world, this book suggests practical ways for American wealth to be redefined, redistributed, and built upon foundations that include social interests. It is a blueprint for building ethics into today's business values and ventures that will create a social structure of community wealth.
I read it in one sitting, underlined heavily, and have placed 39 page markers within its covers. The inspiration found between its pages has helped me redesign my own business plan towards the greater good. In short, read it.
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Title: Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit by J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, Peter Economy ISBN: 0471150681 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs by J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, Peter Economy ISBN: 0471397350 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 29 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein ISBN: 0195138058 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Light of Conscience : How a Simple Act Can Change Your Life by Bill Shore ISBN: 0375505970 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Selling Social Change (Without Selling Out): Earned Income Strategies for Nonprofits by Andy Robinson ISBN: 0787962163 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 03 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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