# Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/forces-for-good-the-six-practices-of-high-impact-nonprofits/
- Published: 2007-10-22T10:04:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. **

What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched
for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which
derived from books on for-profits like _Built to Last_. They studied 12 nonprofits
that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact from Habitat for Humanity to the
Heritage Foundation and distilled six counterintuitive practices that these organisations
use to change the world.

This book has lessons for all readers interested in creating significant social 
change, including nonprofit managers, donors and volunteers.

## About the authors

**Leslie R. Crutchfield** (Washington, D.C.) is a managing director of Ashoka and
research grantee of the Aspen Institute.

**Heather McLeod Grant** (Palo Alto, CA) is a nonprofit consultant and advisor to
Duke University’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and the 
Stanford Center for Social Innovation.

Crutchfield and Grant were co-founding editors of _Who Cares_, a national magazine
reaching 50,000 readers in circulation between 1993-2000.

## Awards

![Reviews and awards for Forces for Good (book)](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
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_The Economist_ chose Forces for Good for its Top Ten [Business Books of 2007 and featured](http://www.economist.com/node/10249833?story_id=10249833)
it as a Best Book of the Year[.](http://www.economist.com/node/10249833?story_id=10249833)

Winner: Skystone Ryan Research Prize 2008, Association of Fundraising Professionals

Winner: Gold Prize – Axiom Business Book Awards, Nonprofit Division

## Reviews

“Global problems like abject poverty require innovative, scaleable solutions. We
have so much to learn from the six practices in _Forces for Good_ because they are
what lead to wide scale social change.”
**Sheryl Sandberg**, COO Facebook

“… Inspired and inspiring, this book can change the way the world works by changing
how leaders think. … Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant have made a significant
contribution with a Very Big Idea: the shift in focus from building an organization
to building a movement.”
**Jim Collins**, author _Good to Great_ and co-author _Built
to Last_

## WATCH: Forces for Good – Heather McLeod Grant at Talks at Google

Video: Google.com