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You care deeply about issues in society – homelessness, inequality, climate change – but you need additional tools to better understand how to tackle them.

You’re ready and willing to learn because you know that merely talking about how awful things are isn’t a very effective way to solve them. But you don’t want to get caught up in the toxic and hyper-polarized bickering between both sides of the political spectrum. 

In Community Heroes, you’ll learn why it’s important to: 

• Use the First Principles framework to prevent discussions about social change from becoming emotionally and politically charged;
• Understand why working on Wall Street might be a more effective way of achieving social impact than working for a nonprofit;
• Suspend your dreams of changing the world and instead strive to be a hero in your own community;
• And much more! 

Whether you’re a regular citizen looking to do good in your community or an AmeriCorps VISTA member about to start your year of service, Community Heroes will help you make your community a better place.

Community Heroes: What a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA member taught me about community development is for a range of audiences. It’s for people that are about to become (or already are) nonprofit professionals, which specifically includes AmeriCorps VISTA members, but is certainly not limited to them.

It’s for those that care deeply about social impact, community development, and nonprofit work. Finally, it’s for those of you that don’t necessarily want to change the world but do want to learn how to change your communities.

This book will not provide legal advice on how to start a nonprofit. It will not teach you how to change the world overnight. Instead, it will give you the tools and information you need to make a positive difference in your community.

It will also give you an insight into the nonprofit world so that you can better engage those that are improving their communities. For current and aspiring AmeriCorps VISTA members, it will make you a better VISTA so that you can deliver greater impact to the communities you serve.

In Community Heroes, you’ll learn why it’s important to:

A) Suspend your dreams of changing the world and instead strive to be a hero in your own community;
B) Understand why working on Wall Street might be a more effective way of achieving social impact than working for a nonprofit;
C) Focus on and build from what your community already has, instead of what it doesn’t have;
D) Form partnerships with other nonprofits in the community, as this is the only way to achieve comprehensive social impact;
E) Understand why your efforts to make a positive impact in society might actually be for selfish, instead of selfless reasons;
F) Break the unfounded stereotypes you might have of the (working) poor–they’re lazy, they cheat the system–in order to serve them more effectively;
G) Understand the barriers to employment that disenfranchised people face and why they are such powerful impediments to progress;
H) And much, much more!