March 29, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
What should you read to prepare for a career in fighting poverty?
That’s the question Tricia Newman, a graduate student in Utah, raises on Poverty Think Tank, a blog she writes “about me thinking about poverty every day so I will be moved to action.”
A few of the books she’s read in the last three months have been educational, she says. They include Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century, Leadership Challenge, and Developing Your Case for Support.
She also studied a book by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, which, while educational, may not have the some practical value as the others.
“My professor said one-third of the reason we studied it in our ethics class was so we could say we had read Kant. So, I am here declaring that I have not only debated and delved into the ideas of Kant, but I have read them, insofar as they were translated correctly,” she writes.
What books do you recommend for Ms. Newman or other young people passionate about antipoverty work? Post your responses by clicking on the comment link below.
