How To Be Great At Doing Good, Nick Cooney
How To Be Great At Doing Good, Nick Cooney
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How To Be Great At Doing Good
Why Results Are What Count and How Smart Charity Can Change the World

Author: Nick Cooney

Narrator: James Fouhey

Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/09/2022

Synopsis

Turns out much of the advice weve been given about how to make the world a better place turns out to be dead wrong. Donating to certain charities will do thousands of times more good that donating to others. Non-profits that choose to carry out one program instead of another will be hundreds of times less successful than they could be, regardless of how bright, hard-working, and compassionate their staff may be. The majority of Americans are involved in charitable work. Most of us donate. Many of us volunteer. Millions go to work each day at a non-profit organization. By taking a more rigorous, calculated approach to charity, we can learn how to do dramatically more good. We can learn how to truly change the world. This book shows you how. Drawing on fifteen years of non-profit experience, a working knowledge of thousands of academic studies on what drives charitable and behavioral decisions, interviews with non-profit and philanthropy professionals, and years of reading, writing, and lecturing on how to effectively bring about social change. The first book to address how a whole host of psychological and social factors combine to drive us toward making bad charitable decisions, its unique content and frank approach will help it stand out in the field of non-profit and philanthropy books. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip

Read Doing Good Better or The Most Good You Can Do instead, this book really does not compare favorably. Even though it is shorter than both MacAskill and Singer's books, the content still doesn't quite fill out the pages, with annoying repetition both of phrases from previous paragraphs and verbose......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

A bit odd that Cooney could get through this book without directly mentioning Effective Altruism, especially given his emphasis on GiveWell and a variety of the top recommended charities. Aside from lacking a few valuable resources, though, this could be a great primer for the general public who mig......more

Goodreads review by Nick

Well I wrote it so of course I have to give it 5 stars :) But I think you will really love it, this is a good one! You can visit [URL not allowed] to learn more and order a signed copy directly from the author (me).......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

This is an important read for everyone and I wish they taught this kind of common sense in school. I found the messaging in the book to be a little repetitive but maybe some people need to hear it over and over. ;)......more

Goodreads review by Aaron

I'm a very committed effective altruist, and I think that Nick Cooney and I hold very similar beliefs. I enjoyed another of his books, "Change of Heart", almost without reservation. When this book is good, it is very good. I've saved many quotes for my commonplace book, and if I ever meet the author......more

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