The Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges - Hardcover

Crimmins, Brian; Chappell, Nathan; Ashley, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1394150571 ISBN 13: 9781394150571

Publisher: Wiley, 2022

Synopsis

Rekindle America's faith in charitable and nonprofit organizations

In Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges, accomplished philanthropy experts Nathan Chappell, Brian Crimmins, and Michael Ashley deliver a startlingly insightful exploration of the decline of American generosity. The authors offer inspirational solutions to the dramatic downturn in giving in the US, showing us how to re-establish the interconnection that drives reciprocity, love, and generosity.

You'll discover how to help reignite the radical connection between us and value-driven organizations that strive to improve life on Earth. You'll also become part of the conversation about generosity as an antidote to isolation and learn to take personal responsibility for the world's most seemingly intractable problems. The book also includes:

• Actionable insights from a variety of vantage points informed by the authors' decades of experience in nonprofit and social benefit organizations
• A broad and deep analysis of how to revitalize the spark of generosity that once made the American nonprofit sector such a powerful force for good
• Strategies for looking beyond technology as the only scalable solution to the charitable deficit

An engrossing and essential treatment of practical charity and real-world nonprofit work, Generosity Crisis will earn a place in the libraries of nonprofit leaders, directors, managers, and other professionals with a personal stake in ensuring the continued survival of the American charitable sector.

About this title

About the Author

NATHAN CHAPPELL is one of the world’s foremost experts on the intersection of artificial intelligence and charitable giving. He serves as senior vice president at DonorSearch, leading research and development efforts dedicated to leveraging A.I. to help nonprofit organizations harness actionable insights through big data.

BRIAN CRIMMINS is a global leader in social impact. He is the CEO of Changing Our World, a philanthropy and management consulting firm. Changing Our World provides consulting services to the world’s leading nonprofit organizations, corporations, foundations, and philanthropists, all of whom are committed to improving society.

MICHAEL ASHLEY is a former Disney screenwriter and the author of over 30 books on a variety of subjects. He is the co-author of Own the A.I. Revolution and Decoding Talent: How A.I. and Big Data Can Solve Your Company’s People Puzzle.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR THE GENEROSITY CRISIS

“The Generosity Crisis confronts us with alarming trends in charitable giving. But it isn’t a bad news book about America. On the contrary, it shows us how donors and nonprofits can connect in new and better ways to inflect giving levels and lift each other up.”

― Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

“A long legacy of nonprofit change-making is woven into our social fabric, and critical to enduring change. And yet, donors have been dropping out of traditional charitable giving at a steady pace. The Generosity Crisis speaks the hard truth, calling on nonprofit leaders to reimagine their relationships with everyday philanthropists. This is a book that should be highlighted, dog-eared, and pencil-scrawled by the time you reach the last pages.”

―Shannon McCracken, CEO, The Nonprofit Alliance

“The need to inspire donors and engage with them more deeply has never been greater. In The Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges, the authors challenge all of us who strive to transform the world through philanthropy to think differently about how we engage with donors and provide us with a roadmap to achieve lasting relationships with those who support our organizations. A very timely and much needed work!”

―Alice Ayres, President and CEO, Association for Healthcare Philanthropy

“A new approach to philanthropy is urgently needed. Over $1 trillion is sitting idle in private foundations while at least $150 billion is stored in donor advised funds. With multiple crises facing humanity, now is the time to put this capital to good use and ensure a more sustainable and prosperous future for all. There is certainly no shortage of scalable solutions waiting to be deployed by charities. They just need access to capital. This book charts a path forward on how to do exactly that, how to revolutionize giving and overcome the generosity crisis NOW.”

― Michael Sheldrick, Co-Founder and Chief Policy, Impact, and Government Relations Officer, Global Citizen

“The Generosity Crisis provides an engaging depiction of the worrisome implications of the decline in everyday giving in the U.S., proposing the solution of radical connection as a vehicle for building successful and meaningful philanthropic relationships. A fluid read that synthesizes a number of compelling experiences with success.”

―Dr. Amir Pasic, Dean of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University

From the Inside Flap

Progress. It is one of the defining expectations of the modern era. But are continued improvements to the human condition assured? What would happen if the only institutions explicitly committed to feeding, healing, sheltering, educating, enlightening and nurturing our communities went away?

In The Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges, the authors deliver a startling analysis of the changing nature of generosity in America and why its decline could herald the end of the modern nonp­­rofit. The demise of philanthropy is coming if we do not change course―in fewer than 50 years, we could be living in a world in which inequality has never been as stark or as dangerous.

In a world fractured by crises of generosity, reciprocity, and love, what would it take to launch a return to humankind’s inherent propensity toward interconnection? This book has the explicit goal of inspiring a different future.

The answer, argue the authors, lies in establishing radical connection―between us and the value-driven organizations that strive to improve life on Earth. They invite you to join an urgently needed conversation around generosity as an antidote to isolation and the requirement that technology be harnessed as a significant scalable solution to reversing the generosity crisis by enabling radical connection; by inviting us to take society’s most intractable problems personally.

As some of the most respected voices on corporate social responsibility, social impact, and A.I.’s place in philanthropy, Chappell, Crimmins and Ashley bring decades of experience working with the world’s most effective nonprofit and value-driven for-profit organizations―offering readers actionable insights from multiple vantage points.

The Generosity Crisis is a must-have resource for nonprofit, corporate, foundation leaders, CSR experts, board members, philanthropists, impact investors, students, and anyone who wants to understand and better the world we live in. Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this ambitious book shows us that humanity’s best days may very well lie ahead―but only if we’re willing to rethink what it means to establish radical connection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1394150571
• ISBN 13: 9781394150571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272