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The Power of One
by Debra J. Berg
The Power of One uncovers the amazingly true stories of fascinating citizen innovators, businessmen, housewives, clergy, and even teens who are tackling crime, welfare dependency, housing shortages and more in communities across America. They’ve given up high-paying jobs, personal lives, 401Ks, and even personal safety to rescue their fellow human beings. This book is more than a book about a few "nice" stories. It's about real solutions to decades (even centuries)- long chronic social problems thanks to the unselfish investment by people depicted in this book.
This trend, still much below the radar of the mainstream media, began in the early eighties but has been growing even stronger in the new millennium. A fifty-year stretch of ineffective social programs has motivated citizen heroes to challenge the conventional wisdom and apply a whole new method for addressing societal decay. Their unique innovations are even “civic-franchising” into other communities with the result of saving American taxpayers billions!
Debra Berg's empirical evidence of this trend lauds 35 founders and their 26 social cures guaranteed to surprise and inspire. Like the small business owner who invented the successful Amber Alert child abduction prevention program and the oil scout who launched Rebuilding Together out of a small Sunday school class, Amber has replicated to all fifty states without one piece of government paperwork. Rebuilding Together is now in over 250 locations. And the creative ideas keep on coming! Debra also includes insights that will help any nonprofit understand how to replicate their cause, what these innovators did to find sponsors, and how to garner community support.
Can one person really make a difference? Absolutely! This is an encouraging "good news" and informative read for anyone. It's an especially inspirational one for those in the helping professions or already part of a grassroots cause. This inspiring 390-page book has photos and includes dozens of separate accounts of social entrepreneurs in thirty U.S. cities. Read more about Debra J. Berg on her website at www.DebraBerg.com.
All book sale proceeds go to towards the development of the National Institute for Civic Enterprise.
Special author-signed version. $20.00
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