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The generosity crisis : the case for radical connection to solve humanity's greatest challenges
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"...Accomplished philanthropy experts Nathan Chappell, Brian Crimmins, and Michael Ashley deliver a startlingly insightful exploration of the decline of American generosity. The authors offer inspi...
"...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"--
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- Creator
- Nathan Chappell, Brian Crimmins, and Michael Ashley
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023]
- ©2023
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- 1 online resource (269 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781394150588, 139415058X, 9781394150571
- OCLC
- on1350668457
- Includes index.
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Our Problem -- Chapter 1 What Would Happen if Everyone Stopped Giving? -- Hospitals -- Colleges and Universities -- Zoos -- Museums -- Human Services -- Performing Arts -- Technology -- The Truth About Philanthropy -- Chapter 2 Why Our Crisis Exists -- "Oh, You Want Your Diploma?" -- What Can Nonprofits Learn from These Stories -- External Factors -- Tax Changes Made Giving Trickier -- Why This Matters-or Two Problems for the Price of One -- More on Donor Friction -- The Crowding Out Effect -- Competition Between Nonprofits -- Proliferation of Omni-Channel Messaging -- Shifting Values Toward Altruism -- Losing Our Religion -- Happiness Is Trending Negative -- Suspicion Toward Institutions -- Internal Factors -- Taking Donors for Granted -- Failure to Stay True to the Mission -- Failure to Engage in a Meaningful Way -- Technology Reinforcing Transactional Versus Transformational Giving -- Failure to Identify the Right People at the Right Time for the Right Purpose -- Incorrectly Pigeonholing People as Fixed Donors or Non-Donors -- Failure to Discern and Measure Generosity's Real Motivators -- Corporate America Has Your Number -- Chapter 3 From Shareholder Value to Shareholder Values -- Insights from Jamal's Story -- Patagonia -- Ben & -- Jerry's -- The Body Shop -- Key Takeaways for Nonprofits -- "You Can Have Both" Comes to Restaurants -- Workers Are Now Values-Driven, Too -- Corporate America Redefined -- What This Means for Nonprofits -- Why the Corporations Took Action -- Chapter 4 The Trust Breakdown -- A Tale of Two Moguls -- Philanthropy Reimagined -- The Public Responds -- Why This Matters -- Sea Change -- What Distrust in Nonprofits Looks and Feels Like -- Going to the Dark Side -- It Gets Worse -- Exploiting Desperate Times Doesn't Make Things Any Better
- The Corporate Game Plan: Be Mission-Driven and Collect Big Data -- What Common Core Can Teach Us (Even if It Didn't Teach the Kids) -- Chapter 5 The Continental Connection Drift -- A Tale of Two Childhoods -- And Then COVID Made Things Worse -- The Rot Goes Deeper -- We're Looking for Our Tribe, but Often Bowling Alone -- The United States of Screens -- Problems Within Problems -- Corporate America and the Attention Economy -- Fallout -- Nonprofits Remain Unspared -- How Corporations Overcame Atomization -- Radical Connection Is the Answer -- Shifting from the Transactional to the Relational -- Part II Our Solution -- Chapter 6 Decoding Generosity -- The Shaving Shellacking -- Aristotle Raised Questions We Can Now Answer -- Demystifying Giving -- Changing Minds Required -- Radical Connection Can Move Mountains -- Radical Connection in the Creator Economy -- Radical Connection with Everyone Is Impossible -- The Four Rules of Radical Connection -- How One Company Builds Radical Connections -- Unprecedented Precision -- Unprecedented Personalization -- One More Thing: Stop Looking at Companies as the Bad Guys -- Chapter 7 When Generosity Is Good for Business-and Society -- Turning Over a New Leaf at TD Ameritrade -- Insights -- Profit -- People -- Planet -- Why the Triple Bottom Line Matters -- Social Responsibility Forms Radical Connection -- Deep Connection -- Inducing Joy, Meaning, and Purpose -- How Something Can Become Part of Your Legacy -- Even So, Social Responsibility Must Be Done Right -- How to Keep Things Authentic -- Why Nonprofits Should Embrace Socially Responsible Companies -- But Never Forget the Employees -- Chapter 8 Making Generosity Personal -- Personally Gaining by Embracing Radical Connection -- Helping Ourselves-Through Helping Others -- It Leads to Personal Health Benefits -- It Builds and Strengthens Communities
- Let's Not Leave Out the Benefits to Family Bonds -- It Aids the Environment (People and Nature) -- Your Generosity Homework? -- Chapter 9 Creating Radical Connection with Emerging Tech -- Transforming Tech: From a Problem to a Solution -- The Relationship Quandary -- The Reaching Young People Quandary -- A Hybrid Solution in Sight? -- Leveraging Tech for Good -- Generosity's Future -- The Kaplans 2.0? -- What the New Kaplans Can Teach Us -- Chapter 10 Notes from the Field: Interviews with Tomorrow's Generosity Leaders -- The Farmlink Project: Challenging the Status Quo -- Illumina: The Triple Bottom Line Meets Next-Gen Geneticists -- The Raskob Foundation: Keeping More Generations Involved in Tradition -- Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation: Building Trust and Community in Africa for Health Care Solutions -- Comic Relief US: Helping Children One Red Nose at a Time -- Index -- EULA