One of today’s most acclaimed books on nonprofit leadership, Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind is a down-to-earth guide to mission-driven leadership. Drawing on his decades of experience 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.
Changing the World was named one of Forbes magazine's 12 Must-Read Books for Nonprofit Employees, and selected as the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Editor's Pick among nonprofit books of 2019. Now it’s available in a revised edition, including a new epilogue on leading in times of crisis, responding to the challenging realities nonprofit leaders have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CHANGING THE WORLD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND by Alex Counts (eBook)
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 also the author of When in Doubt, Ask for More, and 213 Other Life and Career Lessons for the Mission-Driven Leader (Rivertowns, 2020); Small Loans, Big Dreams (Rivertowns, 2022), and numerous articles in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Washington Post, and other publications. Today He is an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations and has served as an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland College Park.
Learn more about Alex Counts at www.alexcounts.com.