The Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges
About this audiobook
In Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges, accomplished philanthropy experts Nathan Chappell, Brian Crimmins, and Michael Ashley deliver a startlingly insightful exploration of the decline of American generosity. The authors offer inspirational solutions to the dramatic downturn in giving in the US, showing us how to re-establish the interconnection that drives reciprocity, love, and generosity.
You'll discover how to help reignite the radical connection between us and value-driven organizations that strive to improve life on Earth. You'll also become part of the conversation about generosity as an antidote to isolation and learn to take personal responsibility for the world's most seemingly intractable problems. The book also includes:
- Actionable insights from a variety of vantage points informed by the authors' decades of experience in nonprofit and social benefit organizations
- A broad and deep analysis of how to revitalize the spark of generosity that once made the American nonprofit sector such a powerful force for good
- Strategies for looking beyond technology as the only scalable solution to the charitable deficit
An engrossing and essential treatment of practical charity and real-world nonprofit work, Generosity Crisis will earn a place in the libraries of nonprofit leaders, directors, managers, and other professionals with a personal stake in ensuring the continued survival of the American charitable sector.
About the author
Brian Crimmins is a global leader in social impact, the creator of ONE HUNDRED (the world’s first coalition of marketing agencies united for sustainable change), a popular public speaker on fundraising and philanthropy and Chief Executive Officer of Changing Our World, a leading philanthropy and management consulting firm whose team of impact consultants effects transformative change on the global stage.
After launching two successful technology companies in his 20's, Nathan made a divine pivot to the nonprofit sector where he spent two decades consulting on, and leading complex programs and multi-billion fundraising campaigns. As a thought leader, public speaker and writer, Nathan is one of the world's foremost experts on the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and philanthropy. Nathan serves as Senior Vice President of DonorSearch, where he leads the Ai deployments for some of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations.
A former Disney story consultant, Michael is a screenwriting professor at Chapman University. He has written over twenty books on numerous subjects, including four bestsellers. He recently coauthored Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition (McGraw Hill). The United Nations hosted the book launch at its AI for Good Global Summit in May. It has since been named by Soundview as one of 2019’s top business books. Michael also recently published It’s Saturday Morning: Celebrating the Golden Era of Cartoons (becker&mayer). A columnist with Forbes, Entrepreneur and Green Entrepreneur, Michael began his career as a reporter for the Columbia Missourian. He has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, the National Examiner, the United Nations’ ITU News, the Orange County Business Journal, and the Orange County Register. Michael serves as a professional speaker, delivering keynotes to business groups and guests on thought leader panels.
