Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation

An era of social responsibility has begun to dawn among global youth and young professionals, on high school and college campuses, in student organizations and clubs, in leadership classes and workshops, and in service-learning programs. Students today have a yearning to improve the world, but they often dont know how to channel their passions and their concerns into productive steps toward actual social innovation. This is their guide. In their fresh voice, and with passion and humor, the authors present a 12-step process that empowers readers to act on their passions and concerns. This process is organized into three parts: Do What Works, Work Together, and Make It Last. They offer specific guidance for following the process through practical and prescriptive actions such building organizations, joining boards, applying for funding, creating partnerships with organizations that have similar goals, organizing conferences, and publicizing events. The book incorporates accounts of young people in action, and always reinforces the message that social innovation can be a lifestyle, made up of efforts small and large. It is not an all-or nothing proposition, and anyone can affect social change.