Whom Shall I Fear?: Pushing the Politics of Change

Outspoken, accomplished, and frequently controversial, physician and political leader Ewart F. Brown has been a longtime champion of racial equality, human rights, and economic and social justice. In this event-filled memoir, the former Premier of Bermuda shares the experiences that shaped him as a physician-politician committed to progressive change and that defined his often tumultuous time in office.Brown's journey began with a childhood in a politically engaged family in a Bermuda then still legally segregated. He spent his pivotal high school years in Jamaica, where he excelled in both academics and athletics, then rose to national U.S. media attention as a leader of civil rights-based student activism at Howard University in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After practicing as a physician in inner-city Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, Brown entered electoral politics in Bermuda in the 1990s as a member of the Progressive Labour Party (PLP) and served as Premier from 2006 to 2010. Brown explains how he fought for human rights and racial equality in the face of intense push-back from racist forces of entrenched financial and political power. These conflicts made global headlines in June 2009, when Brown's administration gave asylum to four innocent Uighurs being released from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. Brown's account of that decision includes his secret negotiations with President Barack Obama's White House as well as the opposition campaign to discredit him that followed.Enlivened by memorable interactions with figures as varied as activists Stokely Carmichael, Cleve Sellers, Minister Louis Farrakhan, and Rev. Al Sharpton, music legend Bob Marley, leading members of the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, senior officials in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and the U.K. governments of Prime Ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, as well as a vividly drawn cast of Bermudians from all walks of life, Whom Shall I Fear? tells a story rich in human and political insight that will fascinate readers interested in the global African diaspora and its continuing quest for racial justice and equality.

Biographies & Memoirs

Brown, Ewart

Leaders & Notable People

Rivertowns Books

Outspoken, accomplished, and frequently controversial, Bermudian physician and political leader Ewart Brown, MD, has been a longtime champion of racial equality, human rights, and economic and social justice. In this event-filled memoir, he shares the experiences that most shaped him and that defined his often tumultuous time in office.
Brown's journey began with a childhood in a politically engaged family in a Bermuda then still legally segregated. He spent his pivotal high school years in Jamaica, where he excelled in both academics and athletics, then rose to national U.S. media attention as a leader of civil rights-based student activism at Howard University.
Brown practiced as a physician in inner-city Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, while also finding time to become the inaugural medical director of the acclaimed musical festival Reggae Sunsplash.
He entered electoral politics in Bermuda in the 1990s as a member of the Progressive Labour Party (PLP), when opponents dubbed him "Dr. Revenge," and served as Premier of Bermuda from 2006 to 2010. Today, as an elder statesman of the PLP, he remains a lightning rod for controversy in Bermuda.
Subject to unprecedented assaults by Bermuda's White establishment, Brown justified his signature campaign slogan, "Doc delivers," by working tirelessly to redress longstanding inequalities on behalf of all Bermudians. In Whom Shall I Fear? he recounts how he brought hard-won progress to Bermuda in infrastructure, which he transformed with a system of fast ferries; employment, where he helped Black and White Bermudians overcome the traditional disadvantages they suffered compared to expatriate workers from abroad; and social services, where he launched FutureCare, the country's first comprehensive health insurance program for senior citizens. Brown explains how he stewarded the island's major economic sectors through the Great Recession and fought for human rights and racial equality in the face of intense push-back from racist forces of entrenched financial and political power.
Whom Shall I Fear? tells a story rich in human and political insight that will fascinate readers interested in the global African diaspora and its continuing quest for racial justice and equality.

Brown, Ewart Frederick

In the 21st century, businesses are increasingly faced with complex, "wicked" problems-challenges with social and environmental dimensions they cannot solve on their own. Such problems are especially common in the frontier markets of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia. In many cases, the best solution is to create cross-sector partnerships with organizations from outside the business world-nonprofits, foundations, government agencies, universities, and more. The resulting partnerships can generate business value as well as positive social impact, thereby benefiting companies and communities alike. Partner with Purpose by Steve Schmida is a step-by-step guide to planning, launching, managing, and growing cross-sector partnerships, illustrated with vivid real-life stories from the author's work with companies around the world. It explains how to recognize when a cross-sector partnership is the right tool for tackling a business problem, how to find potential partners from beyond the for-profit sphere, and how to develop viable solutions to the wicked problem you face. It describes the unique challenges you'll face, from the differing vocabularies and assumptions employed by nonprofit leaders to the difficulties of reconciling visions among organizations with different values and goals. You'll learn how the notorious "Valley of Partnership Death" has caused many promising projects to fail, and the four key steps smart leaders employ to survive it; and you'll learn why internal buy-in is such a crucial factor in the success of any partnership, and the techniques smart managers use to achieve it.Along the way, you'll discover a host of powerful tools that can help you organize, govern, monitor, and measure the effectiveness of your partnership initiative, including the Project Concept Paper, the Partnership Scorecard, and more. Finally, you'll learn how successful partnerships can be brought to scale, creating sustainable solutions that can generate impressive economic value for years to come while benefiting society and the environment.Today more than ever, business leaders are required to combine the quest for profit with social and environmental responsibility. For such leaders, Partner with Purpose is an essential source.

Partner with Purpose: Solving 21st Century Business Problems Through Cross-Sector Collaboration

Business & Money

Schmida, Steve

Economics

Leading a nonprofit organization is challenging, stressful work-yet it can also be richly rewarding. Alex Counts mastered the art of mission-driven leadership through decades of trial and error, as he built from scratch one of today's most admired philanthropic foundations. Now he shares 214 of the most powerful lessons he discovered along the way-life and career secrets you'll never learn in school. Frank, quirky, counterintuitive, and ultimately inspiring, these nuggets of wisdom cover the toughest challenges nonprofit leaders face, from fundraising, strategic decision-making, and people skills to surviving business travel, running meetings, and mastering public speaking.When in Doubt, Ask for More is Alex Counts's gift to everyone working in the nonprofit world-employees and leaders in nongovernmental organizations, charities, foundations, government agencies, faith-based organizations, political and social advocacy groups, and more. They'll find that Alex Counts's sage advice can help them get through the day feeling more in control while making a greater impact on the world they seek to serve.

When in Doubt, Ask for More: And 213 Other Life and Career Lessons for the Mission-Driven Leader

Counts, Alex

Job Hunting & Careers

Partner with Purpose: Solving 21st-Century Business Problems Through Cross-Sector Collaboration

Management & Leadership

* ONE OF FORBES'S 12 MUST-READ BOOKS FOR NONPROFIT EMPLOYEES
* CHRONICLE OF PHILANTHROPY'S EDITOR'S PICK AMONG NONPROFIT BOOKS OF 2019
Some people are dreamers. They choose careers shaped by dreams of making the world a better place. When your dreams are that powerful, it’s easy to neglect yourself. Both lives and dreams can suffer the consequences.
If you’re one of the dreamers, this is the book for you. Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind is a down-to-earth guide to mission-driven leadership. Drawing on his decades as an acclaimed nonprofit leader, Alex Counts offers practical advice on such vital activities as fundraising, team-building, communications, and management. He shows you how to run an organization—and your own life—both effectively and sustainably, giving joyfully to those around you while also caring generously for yourself.
Candid, funny, insightful, and wise, it’s a book you’ll refer to throughout your career . . . wherever your dreams may lead you.
“A life of service to other and to society can be deeply fulfilling. Anyone who seeks to live a life informed by this insight will benefit from this exceptional, and highly readable, book.”--From the Foreword by Muhammad Yunus, co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Alex Counts founded Grameen Foundation and became its president and CEO in 1997. A Cornell University graduate, Counts’s commitment to poverty eradication deepened as a Fulbright scholar in Bangladesh, where he trained under Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, and co-recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Since its modest beginnings, Grameen Foundation has grown to become a leading international humanitarian organization.
Counts is the author of Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance Are Changing the World. Today he is an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations and a professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland College Park.
MORE ADVANCE PRAISE:
“Do you have an idea that would help others that you don’t know how to implement? Are you worn out from working in the nonprofit world without achieving results? This book will give you the confidence and skills you need to make a real difference. Alex Counts has been there and done that. Now he shares his vast experience on how to save yourself while you save others.”--Mike Enzi, U.S. Senator (R-WY)
“Alex brings us insights on social impact with thoughtful reflection and generous advice. With verve and wit, he distills key leadership lessons from his decades of service building one of the great pioneering organizations in the financial inclusion movement.”--Michael Schlein, CEO, Accion
“Remarkably candid, self-reflective, generous, and practical, this book is part memoir, part self-help. Alex is an astute observer whose amazing memory helps him recount his own healing journey in vivid detail, offering stories, lessons, and sage advice that will benefit many readers. You’ll love this book, and you'll laugh out loud as you read it!”--Susan Davis, Co-Author, Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know, Past Chair, Grameen Foundation, and Co-founder, BRAC USA
“Nonprofit leaders and managers need great mentors. Alex Counts’s new book lets you experience conversations with a brilliant mentor whose candid sharing of his mistakes and accomplishments will help you avoid pitfalls and multiply your success.”--Sam Daley-Harris, Founder, RESULTS, Microcredit Summit, and Civic Courage

Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind: Leadership Lessons from Three Decades of Social Entrepreneurship

Caring for a parent, spouse, or relative who cannot care for themselves due to age, infirmity, or illness is one of the noblest human activities. It's also one of the most stressful, posing challenges that can be painful, confusing, frustrating, and deeply rewarding-sometimes all at once. When Caregiving Calls is an invitation to a deep conversation about caregiving and its meaning for you. Aaron Blight has lived the caregiving experience many ways-as a family caregiver for a mother-in-law struggling with brain cancer as it stole her mental clarity and ultimately her life; as the owner of a home care company that supported thousands of families living their own versions of the same journey; and as a researcher, lecturer, and consultant traveling the world to learn from family caregivers and their professional helpers. Now he shares his insights in eighteen brief, thoughtful chapters that examine the many facets of caregiving. He explores how caregiving reshapes family relationships, challenges comfortable assumptions, and stresses your ability to manage your time, energy, and emotions. He shows how the changing mental and physical state of a loved one can lead to growing vulnerability, need, and loneliness on the part of care receiver and caregiver alike. He shares stories-poignant, funny, and often inspiring-that vividly capture the unique daily realities of the caregiving life. And he offers candid, practical advice that can help family caregivers do a better job of coping with the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual challenges they face.

When Caregiving Calls: Guidance as You Care for a Parent, Spouse, or Aging Relative

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Blight, Aaron

Diseases & Physical Ailments

When Caregiving Calls, Custom Edition: Guidance as You Care for a Parent, Spouse, or Aging Relative

Parenting & Relationships

Aging Parents

One Day Stronger: How One Union Local Saved a Mill and Changed an Industry--and What It Means for American Manufacturing

In August, 2017, the death knell sounded for yet another troubled American manufacturer: Appleton Coated, a historic mill in Wisconsin’s historic paper valley that had been the community’s economic mainstay for 128 years. The mill was sold to an industrial scrapper; hundreds of jobs were threatened, and a way of life hung in the balance. 
But then the unlikely happened. 
The mill’s union local and one county official leveraged an obscure legal strategy to stop the selloff. They did so in the face of widespread indifference from cynical politicians, including the state’s Republican governor and legislature, who were hell-bent on landing a plant to be built by Foxconn, a controversial foreign electronics manufacturer—even at the cost of over $3 billion in state subsidies. 
Against all odds, the people won. Now the county official who joined in their fight, Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson, tells the story behind this remarkable turnaround. One Day Stronger is an inspiring saga of how a determined group of millworkers and other community-minded people triumphed over apathy, corporate avarice, and powerful political forces. 
Today, the Appleton Coated mill is alive and well, and the Foxconn deal has cratered. But other manufacturers across the country face threats similar to the one that almost destroyed Appleton Coated. Author Nelson explains the crucial role that labor unions have played in building America’s middle class by creating and sustaining good-paying jobs, fostering prosperous communities, and promoting social solidarity. More important, he shows how labor, working in common cause with business and local government, can restore the American dream. 
In a world where corporate greed and financial engineering have crushed the dreams of countless Americans, One Day Stronger offers a road map for fighting back—and winning. 
“The book presents an engrossing courtroom drama, an acerbic indictment of bank policy that’s also fair to the difficulties that business managers face, and communitarian paeans to blue-collar America: “This was my childhood. This was the American Dream.” The result is a compelling story of a struggle for economic survival that strives to get beyond ideological polarization and highlight ways that unions, businesses, and governments can help ordinary people. An inspiring saga of grassroots political cooperation.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
“A captivating and comprehensive account.”—BookLife Reviews 
“One Day Stronger is a deeply reported business narrative about a paper mill in Nelson’s area, saved from closure through its union’s clever use of an obscure receivership statute. This is a riveting book about the state of corporate America today and one way out of the mess.”—David Dayen, The American Prospect 
“One Day Stronger is exactly the story American needs right now. It is not just an account of saving a plant, but of respecting the dignity of work, the value of tradition, and the possibility of change. May Appleton Coated be a model for the future of American manufacturing!”—Anne Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America 
“Wisconsin is a historic union state. It has never been more vital to understand the role that organized labor has played in our past, that it plays in our present, and that it must play in our future as a laboratory of democracy. Too many powerful figures in politics and the media neglect or openly dismiss the contribution made by Wisconsin’s labor organizations. Tom Nelson pushes back against that neglect and dismissal. He reminds us that Wisconsin doesn’t work without working people and the unions that represent them.”—John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent, The Nation

Nelson, Thomas M.

Stephen Holton is an Episcopal priest who lives and works in the Hudson Valley region of New York. One day during morning prayer, he found himself arranging words "like puzzle pieces" in the traditional syllabic structure of Japanese haiku. Creating these simple three-line poems turned into a daily ritual-Holton's way of capturing and exploring momentary emotions, observations of nature and the world, and insights into faith and life. Friends and followers relish Holton's haiku as they appear on social media. Now many of the best have been gathered for this book. Some deal with the issues confronting our communities and the world, from the COVID pandemic to racial injustice: In the heart of an / incarcerated nation, / God comes with healing.Others deal with the joys, challenges, and mysteries of our spiritual journey: In many cultures, / Jesus comes in many ways; / today, in crumb cake.Still others focus on the small, often unnoticed moments of humor, pathos, and connection that make daily life meaningful: I wait politely. / Kissing couple blocks the door. / This may take a while.	BookLife Reviews observes: "Holton's emotional openness gives his verse a warmth, wit, and spiritual appeal that a wide audience could enjoy. . . . Readers interested in clever and often moving haiku related to spirituality and everyday life will delight in this observational poetry."

Haiku for the Road

Literature & Fiction

Holton, Stephen

Poetry

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Whom Shall I Fear?: Pushing the Politics of Change

Whom Shall I Fear?: Pushing the Politics of Change

Partner with Purpose: Solving 21st Century Business Problems Through Cross-Sector Collaboration

When in Doubt, Ask for More: And 213 Other Life and Career Lessons for the Mission-Driven Leader

Partner with Purpose: Solving 21st-Century Business Problems Through Cross-Sector Collaboration

Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind: Leadership Lessons from Three Decades of Social Entrepreneurship

When Caregiving Calls: Guidance as You Care for a Parent, Spouse, or Aging Relative

When Caregiving Calls, Custom Edition: Guidance as You Care for a Parent, Spouse, or Aging Relative

One Day Stronger: How One Union Local Saved a Mill and Changed an Industry--and What It Means for American Manufacturing

Haiku for the Road