September 6, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
NEW BOOKS
Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference
by Shannon Daley-Harris and Jeffrey Keenan, with Karen Speerstra
“No one person or group can do everything, but everyone can and must do something,” write the authors of this book, which provides many examples of simple ways to help alleviate global suffering. “Each of us has much to give, and each of us has different things to offer as we open our eyes, minds, hearts, hands, and very selves to bringing about a new day of ‘enough’ for the world.”
Shannon Daley-Harris is a writer who has worked with several nonprofit groups, Jeffrey Keenan is strategic-initiatives manager at Adobe Systems, and Karen Speerstra is an editor and writing consultant.
Divided into 24 sections on different efforts — such as spreading literacy, increasing international development aid, supporting debt relief, and ending hunger — the book suggests how individuals and families can contribute money, time, and effort in their daily lives.
“We will shape the end of poverty by how we use our resources close at hand and how we increase the resources of those far away,” the authors write. “All we need is a will to act.”
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 235 Montgomery Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, Calif. 94104; (415) 288-0260; fax (415) 362-2512; http://www.bkconnection.com; 192 pages; $14.95; ISBN 978-1-57675-446-7.
