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Story: Bill Strickland: Role Model for Social Entrepreneurship

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Published: January 03, 2007 in Knowledge@W.P. Carey Editor's Note: About a year ago, I ventured to Pittsburgh to see the Manchester Bidwell project first hand and talk with Bill Strickland...
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The Walk
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The Walk

By Mayer Hawthorne

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: Sometimes I just like to laugh. This song takes an old theme (“beauty is only skin deep”) and an old sound (doo wop) and combines into something catchy...
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Yellow Moon
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Yellow Moon

By Neville Brothers

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is one of those songs that just makes you tap your feet, especially as it’s performed live at Farm Aid concert almost twenty years ago. Favorite lyric:...
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“A Love Song”
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“A Love Song”

By Kenny Loggins

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: Okay, it’s soupy, but I selected it because I played and sang it to my wife, Alice, some 37 years ago at our wedding. Through a lot of...
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“We Shall Overcome”
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“We Shall Overcome”

By Joan Baez

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: I recently saw to my surprise that 71 year old Baez is still performing and very active in rights movements and so I dedicate this, one of her...
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September Newsletter: “What Gets Measured Gets Done” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The voice for creating better measurements continues to grow in the non-profit world. And that’s certainly a good thing. But my experience in business says much depends on what, and...
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September Case History: “Banking on Low-Income Families” by Corey Binns

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Our foundation only dreams of becoming as effective as Center for Community Self-Help, whose mission is “Creating and protecting ownership and economic opportunity for all.” Article:
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September Article: MIX:

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The Premier Source for Objective, Qualified and Relevant Microfinance Performance Data and Analysis Editor’s Note: For perhaps the first time, rather than an article, I’m recommending an entire website. I...
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Who Owns the Icehouse? Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur
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Who Owns the Icehouse? Eight Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur

By Clifton Taulbert & Gary Schoeniger

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: Drawing on the entrepreneurial life-lessons he gained from his Uncle Cleve, Who Owns the Icehouse? chronicles Clifton Taulbert’s journey from life in the Mississippi Delta at the height...
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What Really Matters
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What Really Matters

By John Pepper

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: John Pepper, former president, CEO and Chairman of Proctor & Gamble, has demonstrated that a profitable business can create and sustain a culture that shapes, and is shaped...
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The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook
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The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook

By Ian C. MacMillan and James D. Thompson

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: Anyone interested in creating scalable, positive social impact while conserving resources through a disciplined approach to social entrepreneurship should read The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook. SEA Change, a social...
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The Great Escape; Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality
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The Great Escape; Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality

By Angus Deaton

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: Dr. Deaton, a social economist from Princeton who is widely respected uses this readable book to separate health and income’s effects on global life quality. He is brave...
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The End of Normal
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The End of Normal

By James K. Galbraith

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is an easy reading book considering it is written by an economist. It’s also one that I find myself saying “that’s simply not true” when absorbing certain...
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Smart People Should  Build Things
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Smart People Should  Build Things

By Andrew Yang

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note:  I had the pleasure of meeting Andrew Yang at the City Club of Cleveland and found him to be a humble and down-to-earth guy. In his book, Andrew charts a course...
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Philanthrocapitalism
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Philanthrocapitalism

By Michael Green and Matthew Bishop

October 15, 2019

Editor's note: I wish I would have read this book before I wrote Empty Abundance . While my version of both philanthropy and book writing pales in comparison to billionaires...
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Old Turtle and the Broken Truth
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Old Turtle and the Broken Truth

By Douglas Wood

October 15, 2019

Editor’s comment: I don’t usually feature a children’s book but this one is a good reminder to those of us reading to our children/grandchildren. The parable is a star (of...
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Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference
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Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference

By Antony Bugg-Levine | CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund

October 15, 2019

"In the book we describe the “bifurcated world” that most people inhabit, in which they assume that the only way to solve social challenges is through government and charity and...
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Flash Boys
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Flash Boys

By Michael Lewis

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note:  Lewis has made our library again. Wall Street misbehavior, specifically in this instance high frequency trading is his topic and as with his best books Mr. Lewis is...
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Firms of Endearment
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Firms of Endearment

By Raj Sisodia, David Wolfe and Jag Sheth

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: The organizations who recognize that doing good is good business are becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re changing their culture and generating every form of value that matters:...
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Doing Good Great
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Doing Good Great

By Doug Balfour

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: The target of this book is international donors. Our foundation is very limited in that area and so I must warn that few of us reading this blog...
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Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All
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Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All

By Robert Egger

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: Robert Eggar, a close friend of my DC relatives who have worked in his kitchen once a week since it opened, points out in his book that the...
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