Books
American may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do. - from the front flap
What Peter Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation. - from the front flap
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding. - from the back cover
In Conley's persuasive analysis the locus of current racial inequality resides in class and property relations, not in the labor market. - from the back cover
One of the few white boys in a neighborhood of mostly black and Puerto Rican housing projects on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Conley learned early on about race in America. The result is a ... memoir rich with moving portraits of people caught up in the vortex of race and class in America. - from the back cover
Funny, poignant, and passionate, this revelatory firsthand account of life in low-wage America ... has become an essential part of the nation's political discourse. - from the back cover
In The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small, Edelman asks difficult questions about what we truly value, and looks hard at what we can--and must--do to build a nation fit for all children. - product description
This classic manifesto is updated with an important new preface. Freire reflects on the impact his book has had, and on many of the issues it raises for readers in the 90s. These include the fundamental question of liberation and inclusive language as it relates to Freire's own insights and approaches. - product description
The author tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. - from the front flap
Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. - product description
For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color have so little wealth? The Color of Wealth lays bare a dirty secret: for centuries, people of color have been barred by laws and by discrimination from participating in government wealth-building programs that benefit white Americans. - product description
Find out what nonprofit work is like from the trenches, not just from the boardroom. Discover the secrets of CEOs and Boards - they really can get along. Learn why integrity cannot be rationalized away. - from the back cover
48 Days to the Work You Love is not about finding a new job. It is about discovering what you are going to "be." According to Dan Miller, failing to make that fundamental discovery is why so many people find themselves in jobs they hate. - from the front flap 48days.com
All of us, no matter how old we are or what kind of work we're doing, can learn to bring the same excitement to our jobs that we bring to whatever we love to do on our days off. - product description
Why is it that despite our best efforts, many of us remain fundamentally unhappy and unfulfilled in our lives? In this provocative and inspiring book, David Richo distills thirty years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness - and the surprising secret to finding freedom and fulfillment. - from the back cover
The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty, and the poor. - from the back cover
A landmark exploration of the roots of economic prosperity and the path out of extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens. - from the front flap
Here's how we can achieve the reforms we need. The first step is to update an idea that Democrats and Republicans supported in the 1960s: guaranteed income. - product description
Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, "working poor," should be an oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America. - from the Introduction
Michelle provides answers to the financial issues that confront almost every household: how to teach children the value of money; how to address money issues in a relationship or marriage; household saving tips; getting the best loans; and much more. - product description
Drawing on science and religion, Sleeth builds a bridge between environmentalists and mainstream Christians. He and his family are harbingers of the creation care movement, which calls on all those who love God to love our planet. - product description
A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric's odyssey during his last two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and now tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work. - product description
Web sites
Financial Peace University
http://www.daveramsey.com/fpu/home/
Financial Peace University is a program that teaches financial literacy
The Homeless Guy
http://www.thehomelessguy.blogspot.com/
Homeless blogger Kevin Barbieux
Industrial Areas Foundation
http://www.industrialareasfoundation.org/
IAF leaders and organizers first create independent organizations, made up of people from all races and all classes, focused on productive improvements in the public arena
Kiva
http://kiva.org/
A global organization to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty
Network of Spiritual Progressives - Global Marshall Plan
http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/
The NSP is seeking to have the advanced industrial countries of the world use their resources to eliminate once and for all global poverty, homelessness, and hunger; provide quality education and health care for all; and repair the global environment
Mark Rank, Washington University, St. Louis
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/Faculty/FullTime/Pages/MarkRank.aspx
Longitudinal studies of poverty and food stamps
United for a Fair Economy
http://www.faireconomy.org/
UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart
Unnatural Causes
http://unnaturalcauses.org/
A seven-part documentary series exploring racial & socioeconomic inequalities in health produced by California Newsreel
Vote Out Poverty Campaign
http://www.sojo.net/blog/voteoutpoverty/
An effort by Sojourner's ministries to mobilize a faith-based constituency of churches and individuals capable of putting poverty at the top of the political agenda
The World Café
http://www.theworldcafe.com/
A conversational process based on a set of integrated design principles that reveal a deeper living network pattern through which we co-evolve our collective future