Author : Jackie Golusky
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1728434955
What can you do to stand up for racial kindness? Elmo and friends learn along with young readers about racial justice. Inspired by CNN and Sesame Street's Town Hall, Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism, this gentle guide helps kids celebrate what makes them special, use words to talk about race, and understand why it is important to treat everyone fairly.
Author : Alicia Garza
Publisher : One World
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0525509682
An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter “Excellent and provocative . . . a gateway [to] urgent debates.”—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time • Marie Claire • Kirkus Reviews In 2013, Alicia Garza wrote what she called “a love letter to Black people” on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. Garza wrote: Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. With the speed and networking capacities of social media, #BlackLivesMatter became the hashtag heard ’round the world. But Garza knew even then that hashtags don’t start movements—people do. Long before #BlackLivesMatter became a rallying cry for this generation, Garza had spent the better part of two decades learning and unlearning some hard lessons about organizing. The lessons she offers are different from the “rules for radicals” that animated earlier generations of activists, and diverge from the charismatic, patriarchal model of the American civil rights movement. She reflects instead on how making room amongst the woke for those who are still awakening can inspire and activate more people to fight for the world we all deserve. This is the story of one woman’s lessons through years of bringing people together to create change. Most of all, it is a new paradigm for change for a new generation of changemakers, from the mind and heart behind one of the most important movements of our time.
Author : Christy Dreiling
Publisher : Gather Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2019-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780578481289
Christy Dreiling is a wife, mother, and grandmother currently residing in Ashland, Oregon, whose humble beginnings inspired her to become the captain of her life ship. A former Miss Kansas Teen USA and Mrs. Kansas United States, Christy modeled for national brands for many years and then decided she wanted to make a bigger social impact. While working as a fashion photographer, she was introduced to a direct marketing business that required her to find herself and assist others to find themselves. Her painful experiences with other girls as a child and other women in adulthood challenged her in many ways, but her desire to help others motivated her to turn the obstacles into lessons. After learning to let go of beliefs and mistrust that had hindered her personal development and blocked her friendships, she became inspired to write Gather. Gather is a passion project for Christy. Many teenage girls and women struggle to find community and unity with their sisters because competition, self-comparison, jealousy, and trust issues have progressed to unhealthy levels. The purpose of Gather is to bring us together to value, encourage, and support one another and our individual contributions. Gather circles around the world have been developed to uplift women and teens who are on a quest to discover their gifts and talents and help them to connect with resources that will move their dreams along at a Godspeed pace.
Author : Abby Wambach
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1250217695
Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling author, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for women to unleash their individual power, unite with their pack, and emerge victorious together. Abby Wambach became a champion because of her incredible talent as a soccer player. She became an icon because of her remarkable wisdom as a leader. As the co-captain of the 2015 Women’s World Cup Champion Team, she created a culture not just of excellence, but of honor, commitment, resilience, and sisterhood. She helped transform a group of individual women into one of the most successful, powerful and united Wolfpacks of all time. In her retirement, Abby’s ready to do the same for her new team: All Women Everywhere. In Wolfpack, Abby’s message to women is: We have never been Little Red Riding Hood. We Are the Wolves. We must wander off the path and blaze a new one: together. She insists that women must let go of old rules of leadership that neither include or serve them. She’s created a new set of Wolfpack rules to help women unleash their individual power, unite with their Wolfpack, and change the landscape of their lives and world: from the family room to the board room to the White House. · Make failure your fuel: Transform failure to wisdom and power. · Lead from the bench: Lead from wherever you are. · Champion each other: Claim each woman’s victory as your own. · Demand the effing ball: Don’t ask permission: take what you’ve earned. In Abby’s vision, we are not Little Red Riding Hoods, staying on the path because we’re told to. We are the wolves, fighting for a better tomorrow for ourselves, our pack, and all the future wolves who will come after us.
Author : Clay Shirky
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0141030623
Welcome to the new future of involvement. Forming groups is easier than it�s ever been: unpaid volunteers can build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and high street banks, and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone. The results of this new world of easy collaboration can be both good (young people defying an oppressive government with a guerrilla ice-cream eating protest) and bad (girls sharing advice for staying dangerously skinny) but it�s here and, as Clay Shirky shows, it�s affecting � well, everybody. For the first time, we have the tools to make group action truly a reality. And they�re going to change our whole world.
Author : Jean Shinoda Bolen
Publisher : Conari Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781573242653
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Author : Eboo Patel
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606741446
Join interfaith commentator Eboo Patel as he explores what it means to be "literate" about other faiths, how interfaith cooperation "works" and why, the skills needed for interfaith cooperation and the significant role that our institutions, including colleges and faith communities, can play in this process. This resources contains all he material needed by class participants and the group facilitator. SOLD SEPARATELY. Embracing Interfaith Cooperation DVD. This resource features five 10-15 minute presentations by Eboo Patel, each of which is followed by video of Patel interacting with a small, diverse group of adults and young adults as they respond and discuss interfaith issues. Eboo Patel believes religion is a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. Inspired by his faith as a Muslim, his Indian heritage and his American citizen ship, he speaks to his vision of interfaith harmony at places like he Clinton Global Initiative, The Nobel Peace Prize Forum, as well as college and universality campuses across the country. He is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, USA Today and he Huffington Post.
Author : Beverly Jatwani
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category : Animal rescue
ISBN : 9781912678389
Pedro the Puerto Rican Parrot is the first book in the Together We Can Change the World series. A series of seven stories, covering seven continents, with seven important virtues: Love, Courage, Compassion, Respect, Kindness, Integrity, and Gratitude. Dominic takes Pedro the Parrot under his wing nursing him back to health before releasing him back into the wild.
Author : Peter Plastrik
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610915328
Something new and important is afoot. Nonprofit and philanthropic organizations are under increasing pressure to do more and to do better to increase and improve productivity with fewer resources. Social entrepreneurs, community-minded leaders, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropists now recognize that to achieve greater impact they must adopt a network-centric approach to solving difficult problems. Building networks of like-minded organizations and people offers them a way to weave together and create strong alliances that get better leverage, performance, and results than any single organization is able to do. While the advantages of such networks are clear, there are few resources that offer easily understandable, field-tested information on how to form and manage social-impact networks. Drawn from the authors’ deep experience with more than thirty successful network projects, Connecting to Change the World provides the frameworks, practical advice, case studies, and expert knowledge needed to build better performing networks. Readers will gain greater confidence and ability to anticipate challenges and opportunities. Easily understandable and full of actionable advice, Connecting to Change the World is an informative guide to creating collaborative solutions to tackle the most difficult challenges society faces.
Author : Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Publisher : Legacy Lit
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0316515558
A GROUNDBREAKING, DEFINITIVE WORK ON HOW TO BUILD WOMEN'S POWER "A perfect primer for women everywhere who want to take action-whether their heading to their first town hall meeting or running for office." -- Cecile Richards, New York Times bestselling author of Make Trouble and President of Planned Parenthood "The book we all need to remind us why the fight against white supremacy and patriarchy will actually set us free." -- Patrisse Khan-Cullors, cofounder of Black Lives Matter and New York Times bestselling author of When They Call You a Terrorist Keep Marching is a practical guide and highly researched examination of the barriers that hold women back-and how to overcome them. Author Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner--the executive director of MomsRising, and a keynote speaker at the 2017 Women's March in Washington, D.C. -- presents compelling data, timeless action plans, thought-provoking stories, a proactive agenda for change, and inspiration for how women can create change in their everyday lives and in the country as a whole. This book provides proven tactics, policy solutions, and strategies any woman can use to build her power. DID YOU KNOW THAT: One in three women have experienced some form of sexual assault? When a group includes more women, its collective intelligence rises? The U.S. doesn't have paid family/medical leave but 177 other countries do? Keep Marching calls on all badass women for justice to come together and rise.
