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Chicago Sun-Times ...Sunday Lunch with 'Civic Entrepreneurs' (Apr. 9, 2006)
"This book will inspire everyONE who reads it to discover their own POWER to make a positive change in their communities, their nation, and their world.
Diana Simone, Co-founder, Amber Alert
I couldn't agree more that one individual's efforts to make a positive change in our culture can have tremendous results.
Dr. D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
The Power of ONE is an excellent book...
John DeGuire, Executive Director, Feed My People (St. Louis, MO)
Your words are truly inspiring...
Betty Ann Good, Founder, Youth Crime Watch of America
Your book is fantastic! I bought many copies and donated four to the library...
Sal Dimiceli, President, The Time Is Now (Pell Lake, Wisconsin)
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Craig Taylor, Executive Director, Cooperative Resource Center (Atlanta, Georgia)
The Power of ONE
The Unsung Everyday Heroes
Rescuing America's Cities
by
Debra Schweiger Berg
There's a new trend in America. The best estimates are that it began in the early eighties and it's been growing ever stronger since the turn of the new millennium. Average citizens, from teens to seniors, have decided to tackle their community's social challenges in a whole new way. Instead of waiting for someone else to do it, they're launching quicker, more compassionate, tax-saving solutions to help those in need, and their results are eye-opening!
The Power of ONE: The Unsung Everyday Heroes Rescuing America's Cities captures the true, inspiring stories of 35 unsung civic heroes and their unique social inventions now turning the corner on Goliath-sized issues like crime, poverty, housing, and neighborhood decay. They range from businessmen to teenagers and housewives to the clergy. Most have given up high-paying jobs, personal lives, and even personal safety to pursue a passion for helping others. They're even bridging racial divisions in their communities. And now, as many of these initiatives have matured, their founders have been busy replicating, or "civic-franchising", their social cures down the street, across the nation, and even around the world. It's grown into a trend never before witnessed in global history!
How effective are these grassroots ideas and why don't we hear more about them? While most civic entrepreneurs do not hold degrees in social work, nevertheless, they're scoring impressive results. One founder reports an 89% adoption rate for special needs foster children. Another touts an unprecedented 85% one-year employment retention rate of the previously homeless. That founder has even set the goal of conquering poverty as we know it and now several major foundations are taking him seriously.
Where are the dollars coming from to make these ideas work? The Power of ONE explores these and other questions about America's new civic culture. Skeptics about the future of grassroots cures will be surprised to learn just how many of these thriving groups exist and how well they do what they do. In fact, the social challenges in America may not be from the lack of good ideas. The real challenge may be in redirecting the PR and resources to these civic seed organizations with tried and tested solutions.
The Power of ONE has sparked the attention of foundations, community-oriented businesses, nonprofits, politicians, and average citizens who want to learn how they can bring successful social inventions like these to more communities. While on speaking and book-signing tours, Debra finds audiences taking notes as they learn of social solutions they can use now. And, over the course of her travels, she has also found social innovators latching on to the book to fine-tune their efforts. Most of these hard-working citizens have sacrificed personal lives and fortunes to help others and appreciate learning new alternatives to service delivery, promotion, and fundraising.
Can one person, even an average citizen, really come up with a social cure? Absolutely! The real-life stories in The Power of ONE are the empirical evidence. America owes a great deal to these pioneering "civic scientists" who've launched the New Civic America. It's a movement that's been flying below the radar of the mainstream media since the early eighties simply because it's been fueled by just "one person here and one person there." Now, these successful projects, whether secular or faith-based, are saving millions of taxpayer dollars while compassionately coming to the rescue of crime victims, the underprivileged, and those in transition. Their passion and service to others provides the new social template for all of America's 21st century neighborhoods from sea to shining sea!
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