Citizen You: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing the World

by Karl Weber and Jonathan Tisch

Book Overview

Just when the world needs it most, a new style of social engagement is emerging: Active Citizenship.

A key member of one of New York's most civic-minded families--one that has supported many of America's notable institutions and deserving programs--Jonathan Tisch has devoted a lifetime to "active citizenship." It's an idea that uses the power of practical creativity and grassroots participation to solve seemingly intractable problems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307588491
• ISBN13: 9780307588494
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The Power of You!

Citizen You is a different book from the others i've read on social business and changing the world because it makes it more accessible to the average person. Other writers speak of these broad far-reaching notions of ending global poverty, human trafficking, and the many other issues that plague our planet. Although these ideas are noble and well-meaning they are often not that constructive. Citizen You on the other hand is practical and accessible to the average person. The stories told throughout the book like Scott Harrison who helps provide water to the impoverished or the students who run the Broadway program for at risk youth in the neighborhood surrounding Tuffs University are examples of people using their own talents and gifts to make their immediate world a better place.

Deep insights coupled with strong overview/introduction to Citizenship 2.0

I read the Kindle version of this book his morning on the train back up from DC. What sets this book apart from others in the social entrepreneurship field is its constant re-emphasis on not only what others are doing in...but what you, the reader, can also accomplish as an active and engage citizen (especially through social agenda driven organizations that allow, and even mandate by their very structure, that you get involved in a deep and authentic fashion). The overview of Scott Harrison and Charity:Water is especially illuminating because it shows how Harrison created an organization that allowed people to take something very personal (their Birthday) and use it as an organizing mechanism for building clean water wells in sub-Saharan Africa. I recommend this book both for practitioners and those wishing to learn more about the emerging "social-activism 2.0" landscape.