If you have read The End of Charity I urge you to discuss the book here by posting a comment. If you have not read the book you can purchase the book online.
Yours Sincerely
Nic Frances
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have any idea when the book will be available at amazon.com??? sounds great!!!
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I really enjoyed your book and learning of your endeavours. I believe that everything on this planet is better for your dedication and efforts. I also believe that there are many simple solutions to save the world all one needs is to understand the real problems and satisfy them in a way that provides convenient compromise, generally as you have found the solutions revolve around the hip pocket. I am at a point in my life where I question my own journey, you have given me strength to pursue several areas to generate funding like stepping stones which hopefully will help me create a school for humans to help each other. Our future is ultimately for our children and our children hold the key but they need help.
Hi,
I’ve just finished reading The End of Charity and have had a couple of conversations about it with friends and colleagues.
I must admit to finding some of the elements of the book quite challenging – having worked with many volunteer groups it is a major paradigm shift to think of these things in terms of profit for individuals.
Having said that, I’m a little surprised how resistant people are to the idea of business being socially responsible. There is clearly something in our society which is served by the idea of socially irresponsible business, but how to overcome that is a more vexed question, I think.
I’m tired of seeing the NFP sector so poorly funded. Although I do wonder how you might approach the provision of socially responsible services in areas where there are no frameworks or potential for locally based commercial alternatives (rural Australia, for example).
thought-provoking, very much worth reading!
Your book has been an interesting challenge to my pre-existing values about the inadequacy of market forces to account for the true cost of goods and services. I will challenge others to read ‘The end of charity’ and here is hoping for a positive and just future where charity (love) is central to all that we do. I look forward to seeing what government, big business and small business alike make of your ideas and strategies for our future.
Hi, just read a review of your book in the UK Social Enterprise Magazine. Love the name – thought provoking and provocative at the same time. It is true that if business was inherently socially responsible (like social enterprises) then we wouldn’t need charity. I firmly believe that business and the market are the real drivers for local and global change.
Challenged a lot of what I thought, possibly one of those books, that will have a large impact, on how I approach things.
The book on the surface is about using business methods to deliver social benefits – but there is a lot more to it. I can see a lot of other values underlying his approach, and they are sound and sensible.
After reading it, I could start to see there might be ways through issues I encounter. These are very small scale – volunteer work, concern, and people at work – not setting up million dollar corporations. Important to me nonetheless, no easy solutions, they have been bugging me for years.
I am re-reading this book, and may post later, once I have my thoughts more in order.
I am finding the book very useful. It has informed a sermon I did in a Synagogue today relating to our spheres of influence as consumers and voters. Interesting that the Talmud says lending money to the poor is better than a handout, and better still is forming a partnership with a poor person.
It also challenges me in my role leading a non-proffit seeking to address the high cost but in some ways low priority area of acceptance of religious and cultural diversity. Since 2002 we have worked with 40,000 students, could the benefit we create be greater with a more market oriented approach? it’s a difficult question.
I found the discussion of the conflicts between maximizing benefit and protecting the charity meaningful.
One cost of the current electoral system is that people can claim to they care about social issues but often politicians seem to know that this is concern is not a priority. So voters and politicians blame each other. Perhaps some social entrepreneur out there can devise a way of using the internet to confront enough voters with the real choices goverments need to make so we voters are lead off the “fence” then politicians can make “brave” choices knowing these have real support.
This is a book that should be read widely and the issues carefully considered.