The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact
Jacob Harold
Dec 2022 · Gildan Media · Narrated by George Newbern
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In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the twenty-first 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. Listeners 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; poems and stories to illustrate and enrich 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 twenty-first century; and 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.
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. Listeners 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; poems and stories to illustrate and enrich 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 twenty-first century; and 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.
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. Learn more at jacobharold.org.
Actor George Newbern has appeared in Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride II, Evening Star, Adventures in Babysitting, and many other films. On television, he has had roles on Friends, Nip/Tuck, Hot in Cleveland, CSI, and more.
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