How to Change the World describes for us detailed profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social causes, weaving in personal anecdotes, and analysis. In reading How to Change the World, you will discover how one person can make a significant impact.

In Uncharitable, author Dan Pallotta argues a fascinating point to us: that the nonprofit sector has been placed at an extreme disadvantage because of the double standards that exist in our society regarding what resources they have access to and which rules they must abide by. We blame capitalism for creating inequities such as poverty and hunger in our society, but we don’t allow nonprofit organizations to use all the tools that should be at their disposal to help better them.

Pallotta’s book educates us on how unjust the not-for-profit world really is and compellingly writes about equal economic rights for charity.

Do More Than Give outlines a plan for individuals, philanthropists, and non-profit organization leaders to increase their impact. Do More Than Give tells us the six practices of nonprofits that are able to truly make a difference and how these practices can apply to donors who would like to change their world for the better.

About 20 years ago Thomas J. Tierney left Bain & Company, a very prestigious consulting firm, to co-found The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on helping donors and nonprofit leaders to develop and execute strategies to increase their social change impact. In Give Smart, Tierney combines his wisdom with Duke professor Joel L. Fleishman's knowledge to design this text for philanthropists and the nonprofit organizations they support—one of the best resources about engaged giving.

Unlike private businesses that respond to the market and go out of business when they fail, nonprofit organizations have an extremely low limit to entry. The IRS accepts 99.5% of applications, and once nonprofit organizations are founded, they don’t often go under. Ken Stern writes of the saddening truth which is that the majority of nonprofit organizations are established, raise and spend millions of dollars in attempt to make a difference in their causes, but unfortunately aren’t ever able to make a dent in solving the problems they said they would.

But he also came upon some good news: there is now a growing movement toward responsibility and success in the nonprofit world. With Charity for All is a wonderful read, showing us how there has been a big problem in charity’s history because of our donating to nonprofit organizations that ultimately make no impact. Stern gives us hope in his last few chapters with his ideas on individual giving and widespread change.

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn present us with meticulous research and reporting to explain how philanthropy affects us, what defines success, and how to dodge the risks. In their retelling of amazing stories of social change, we are shown how real people have made an impact on our world, how they have done so, and that it is truly possible for one person to make a difference.

In Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors are Revolutionizing Giving, we meet the next generation of donors―the Gen X and Millennial philanthropists who will be the most important donors yet and who will change our world in such significant ways. We will read about their inspired plans to revolutionize giving in a way that creates more impact, and understand how we can help them succeed in a society that needs intelligent, impactful donors now more than ever.