SCOPE staff is currently reading:

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)  

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder)

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams (Gary Mormino)


Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle  (Manning Marable, Leith Mullings, and Sophie Spencer-Wood)

The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo)


Raising More Money: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Lifelong Donors (Terry Axelrod)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

SCOPE Classics:

Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Malcolm Gladwell)

Radical LEAP: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership (Steve Farber)

BAD Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, and Why It Matters (Barbara Kellerman)

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Robert Putnam)
 

Better Together: Restoring American Community (Robert Putnam)
 

Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest (Peter Block)

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)

Building a Community from the Inside Out: A Path Towards Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets (John Kretzman and John McKnight) 

Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Age (Neal Peirce)

SCOPE Studies-Related Reading:

   Race & Cultural Relations


Racing Across the Lines: Changing Race Relations through Friendship (Deborah Plummer)
 

The Church Enslaved: A Spirituality for Racial Reconciliation (Michael Battle)

   Aging: The Possibilities

Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America (Marc Freedman)

Optimal Aging: Your Guide from Experts in Medicine, Law, and Finance

The Creative Age  (Gene D. Cohen, M.D., PH.D.)

 SCOPE Recommends these articles:

"Civic Engagement and the Restoration of Community" (Peter Block)

"Local Heroes Changing America" (foreword) (Ray Suarez)

"Meta-Leadership and National Emergency Preparedness” (Leonard Marcus, Barry Dorn, and Joseph Henderson)  Center for Public Leadership Working Papers, Spring 2005, Harvard University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government 
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A List of Civic Related Books, Articles, and Quotes (City Cares Citizen Academy)

Leading Boldly: Foundations Can Move Past Traditional approaches to Create Social Change Through Imaginative – and Even Controversial – Leadership (Ronald Heifetz, John Kania, and Mark Kramer