Revolution of the Heart [Hardcover]

Bill Shore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 17, 1995

Offers a plan for concerned citizenship that transcends traditional political activity in order to serve directly the needs of the community, especially poverty, hunger, and homelessness, through innovative nonprofit groups.

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From Publishers Weekly

Shore posits that welfare programs, private charities and nonprofit agencies fail to solve social problems because many compete for the same limited funds, operate inefficiently and/or use little creativity. He proposes alliances with businesses willing to dedicate part of their profits to solutions. As examples, he cites Working Assets and the enterprises of Paul Newman, Joseph Kennedy, Ben & Jerry's and his own Share Our Strength (SOS). These are driven by people of social vision who, while creating jobs and wealth, at the same time provide new funding sources for social programs. Sometimes a nonprofit, such as SOS?concerned primarily with hunger?enters into a partnership with an existing company, the one providing products or skills, the other devising marketing vehicles for them, and together creating new resources for social projects. A former aide to Senator Gary Hart, Shore offers timely analyses of the failures of nonprofits and government programs, and his examples of successful coalitions with business are inspiring. Yet critics will have many "yes?buts" in response to his argument, which, though silken and persuasive, seems long on idealism and short on wide application, depending as it does on a "revolution of the heart."
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Shore, CEO and founder of Share Our Strength (his nonprofit, hunger-fighting organization), has written an important work that could change the way America thinks about its future. His philosophy is that nonprofits need to think and act like businesses?creating wealth rather than redistributing it. He explains that the problems of the world cannot be solved by governments or economic markets. To make real changes, citizens must take responsibility for their communities. Shore suggests how this can be done. By outlining the progression of Share Our Strength from an idea to a highly successful, multimillion dollar "business," Shore demonstrates how money and other contributions can be raised to help the needy. Highly recommended for all libraries.?Elizabeth Caulfield Felt, Washington State Univ., Pullman
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 167 pages
• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover; 1St Edition edition (October 17, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573220191
• ISBN-13: 978-1573220194
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,422,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bill Shore is the founder and executive director of Share Our Strength®, a national nonprofit that is ending childhood hunger in America. Shore is also the chairman of Community Wealth Ventures®, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength that offers strategy and implementation services to foundations and nonprofit organizations, partnering with them to design and implement innovative approaches to growth and sustainability to promote social change.

Shore founded Share Our Strength in 1984 in response to the Ethiopian famine and subsequently renewed concern about hunger in the United States. From 1978 through 1987, Shore served on the senatorial and presidential campaign staffs of former U.S. Senator Gary Hart (D-Colorado). From 1988 to 1991, Shore served as chief of staff for former U.S. Senator Robert Kerrey (D-Nebraska). His transition from politics to innovative community service and his prescription for community change are documented in his first book, Revolution of the Heart (Riverhead Press, 1995). Shore's second book, The Cathedral Within (Random House, 1999), profiles a new breed of community leaders who are tapping every sector of society to improve community life. Shore's most recent book is The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men, published in November, 2010 by PublicAffairs.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Shore earned his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He currently serves on the board of directors of The Timberland Company and Venture Philanthropy Partners and was named one of America's Best Leaders (October 2005) by "US News & World Report."

Shore has been an adjunct professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and is currently an advisor for the Reynolds Foundation Fellowship program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Seminal work, October 9, 2010

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This book should be required reading for Board Directors, CEOs, managers and staff of all non-profit organizations and for-profit companies around the world. Right on, Bill Shore!