Fundraising for Social Change

10 best books like Fundraising for Social Change (Kim Klein): The Fantasticks, Heavy: An American Memoir, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition, Transit, Jabberwocky, Freak, A House at the Bottom of a Lake, Notes from a Young Black Chef, Public Relations Writing: Form & Style, Organizational Communication for Survival: Making Work, Work

The Fantasticks

Author	Harvey Schmidt
ISBN	1557831416

The Fantasticks is one of the longest-lasting pieces of American theatre, and after reading it, I understand why. It’s a very sweet and simple story: Two friends pretend to feud in order to make their children fall in love. As they say themselves, their kids are bound to fall in love “because [their...

Heavy: An American Memoir

Author	Kiese Laymon
ISBN	1501125656

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.

Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In...

Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition

Author	Anne Frank
ISBN	0553586386

Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe"  of an old office building in Amsterdam, a  thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer.  The now famous diary of her private life and  thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however.  This book completes the portrait of...

Transit

Author	Rachel Cusk
ISBN	0374278628

The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015.

In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral,...

Jabberwocky

Author	Lewis Carroll
ISBN	0810911507

The world’s best-loved nonsense poem inspires a fresh, enchantingly surreal treatment in this beautiful edition from an exciting new talent.


’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

So...

Freak

Author	Marcella Pixley
ISBN	0374324530

For Miriam Fisher, a budding poet who reads the Oxford English Dictionary for fun, seventh grade is a year etched in her memory "clear as pain." That's the year her older sister, Deborah, once her best buddy and fellow "alien," bloomed like a beautiful flower and joined the high school in-crowd. That's...

A House at the Bottom of a Lake

Author

Josh Malerman

Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes.

It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing across a chain of lakes, sandwiches and beer in the cooler. But teenagers Amelia and James discover something below the water’s surface that changes their lives forever.

It’s...

Notes from a Young Black Chef

Author	Kwame Onwuachi
ISBN	1524732621

A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree

By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants...

Public Relations Writing: Form & Style

Author	Doug Newsom
ISBN	0495095664

This book is NOT by the Australian author Jim Haynes

PUBLIC RELATIONS WRITING: FORM AND STYLE combines the practical approach of a trade book with the fundamental principles and theories of Public Relations to provide you with the essential techniques and methods needed to write with understanding...

Organizational Communication for Survival: Making Work, Work

Author	Virginia Peck Richmond
ISBN	0205408001

Assuming a unique perspective for an organizational communication text, this handbook focuses students on how to communicate with managers and peers to survive, thrive and prosper in organizational environments. Taking a subordinate approach, this survival guide for employees centers on understanding...

Event Planning Made Easy

Author	Jodi Wolf
ISBN	0071446532

America's premier corporate event planners reveal the seven secrets of successful planning for every occasion, on any budget

Whether it's the company's annual party, a product launch, or a fund-raising gala, planning a major event is a daunting task. Now the industry leaders who organized...

Volunteer Engagement 2.0: Ideas and Insights Changing the World

Author

Robert J. Rosenthal

VolunteerMatch taps expert knowledge from today's volunteerism professionals to help nonprofits take a more inventive approach to volunteer engagement Volunteer Engagement 2.0: Ideas and Insights Changing the World shows you many of the innovative approaches to engaging volunteers that...

The Nonprofit Board Answer Book: A Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives

Author	Boardsource
ISBN	1118096118

An essential guide to good governance for board leaders at all levels of experience and expertise This third edition of the bestselling book for nonprofit board members and professionals offers a thoroughly revised and updated resource that answers the most-commonly asked question on board governance....

Yurara, Vol. 4

Author	Chika Shiomi
ISBN	1421513536

We are slowly nearing the end of the series. A childhood friend appears, a date with Meiwa, struggling with your other self, and troubles in romance-land.

I am rating this one a bit lower than I had initially planned. Now that I slept and thought I just don't think this one is worth a 4 stars. I just...

Yurara, Vol. 5

Author	Chika Shiomi
ISBN	1421513544

• A 5-volume manga series
• The first two volumes of Yurara have already sold through 12k units in the U.S. to date.
• Originally serialized in Japan’s manga anthology Bessatsu Hana to Yume
• Inspired merchandise in Japan: book card, QUO card, telephone card
• Previewed...

Yurara, Vol. 3

Author	Chika Shiomi
ISBN	1421513528

Review for Volume 2 and 3.

Evil spirits, more about Meiwa and why he is hurting, confessions, drama, grandpa makes an appearance, the love quartet continues.

I wasn't planning on writing a review today, but now I have read volume 3 I just need to write a review. So this one will be about...

Yurara, Vol.2

Author

Chika Shiomi

Review for Volume 2 and 3.

Evil spirits, more about Meiwa and why he is hurting, confessions, drama, grandpa makes an appearance, the love quartet continues.

I wasn't planning on writing a review today, but now I have read volume 3 I just need to write a review. So this one will be about...

Seven Types of Atheism

Author	John N. Gray
ISBN	0241199417

'A highly readable, fascinating book that jerks the debate on religion versus atheism right out of its crusted rut into the light of serious intellectual scrutiny' Observer

A meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by one of Britain's...