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Transform your corner of the world with strategies from a social change visionary
In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the 21st century. In the book, you'll explore nine tools that have driven world-shaking social movements and billion-dollar businesses--tools that can work just as well for a farmers market or fire department or small business.
The author describes each of the tools--including storytelling, mathematical modeling, and design thinking--in a stand-alone chapter, intertwining each with a consistent narrative and full-color visual structure. Readers will also find:
* A consistent focus and emphasis on the work of social good and how it can be applied in any business, government agency, or nonprofit organization
* Dozens of poems, photos, equations, diagrams, and stories to illustrate and enrich of the core ideas of the book.
* A fulsome, three-chapter introduction offering an a crash course in the basics of social impact strategy in the 21st century
* A comprehensive strategic playbook for contributing to the shared work of building a better world
An essential blueprint for anyone interested in improving the world around them, The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact is an incisive strategic guide that will prove to be indispensable for everyone who seeks to collaboratively build something better.
List of contents
The box:
10 Introduction
18 An Age of Flux
36 The Shape of Strategy
60 Ethics and Social Change
The tools:
78 Storytelling
98 Mathematical Modeling
120 Behavioral Economics
144 Design Thinking
164 Community Organizing
192 Game Theory
216 Markets
238 Complex Systems
258 Institutions
280 Conclusion
282 Acknowledgments
284 Bibliography
294 Endnotes
308 Sources and Permissions
312 Index
326 About the Author
About the author
From farm to monastery, jail to boardroom,
Jacob Harold's life has been a search for ways to make a better world. He served as CEO of GuideStar, cofounder of Candid, and as a staff leader at the Hewlett Foundation, Bridgespan, Greenpeace, and Rainforest Action Network. Harold studied ethics at Duke and earned an MBA at Stanford. Learn more:
JacobHarold.org
Summary
Transform your corner of the world with strategies from a social change visionary
In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the 21st century. In the book, you'll explore nine tools that have driven world-shaking social movements and billion-dollar businesses--tools that can work just as well for a farmers market or fire department or small business.
The author describes each of the tools--including storytelling, mathematical modeling, and design thinking--in a stand-alone chapter, intertwining each with a consistent narrative and full-color visual structure. Readers will also find:
* A consistent focus and emphasis on the work of social good and how it can be applied in any business, government agency, or nonprofit organization
* Dozens of poems, photos, equations, diagrams, and stories to illustrate and enrich of the core ideas of the book.
* A fulsome, three-chapter introduction offering an a crash course in the basics of social impact strategy in the 21st century
* A comprehensive strategic playbook for contributing to the shared work of building a better world
An essential blueprint for anyone interested in improving the world around them, The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact is an incisive strategic guide that will prove to be indispensable for everyone who seeks to collaboratively build something better.
