The Cathedral Within: Transforming your life by giving something back

By Bill Shore; US$21.95 + shipping and handling; Butterworths; available in our bookstore

Bill Shore, founder of Share Our Strength, an anti-hunger, anti-poverty organization, profiles community leaders throughout the United States who are successfully tapping the private sector for community building initiatives.

As Shore notes, “a prerequisite of building [cathedrals] up and out is to begin by digging deep and in.” Over lengthy passages about coming to terms with the needs of his own children and through plentiful anecdotes from organizations and civic leaders across the United States, he explores the motivations and sustaining features of some of America’s most exemplary nonprofits. Using the metaphor of cathedral builders in earlier centuries, Shore offers a new model for nonprofit organizations and implores us to reinvent the way we approach both running and funding our community organizations and reflects on how to make communities stronger through successful civic leadership. Buy the book:

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