Recommended Reading

We asked you what you’d read recently that you found useful or significant for your organization, and compiled a list for your holiday shopping.

Boston: A Documentary Novel, by Upton Sinclair

"Based on the Sacco-Vinzetti trials, this book gives not only an historic perspective on the life and politics of Boston in the early 20th Century, it illuminates - with some discomfort - familiar patterns that still exist in the social and political strata today."

Bridging The Class Divide: And Other Lessons For Grassroots Organizing, by Linda Stout

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom

The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism, by Chip Smith

"We need beginners’ energy. We need people who will take this new origin story about white privilege and build a better nation. Here is a guidebook."

Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World, by Michael Brown

Stewardship, by Peter Block

Leadership without Easy Answers, by Ron Heifetz

The Thin Book of Naming Elephants, by Sue Annis Hammond and Andrea B Mayfield

The Ecology of Commerce, by Paul Hawken

Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder

The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell

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