Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World

by Michael Edwards

Book Overview

A former Ford Foundation director takes a critical look at the role of for-profit companies in philanthropy--and exposes the troubling risks and downsides.

A new movement is afoot that promises to save the world by bringing the magic of the market to philanthropy. Nonprofits should be run like businesses, its adherents say, and businesses can find new sources of revenue by marketing goods and services that benefit society. What could...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605093777
• ISBN13: 9781605093772
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"