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After my first four years traveling around the nation for World Hunger Year and after I had reached all 50 states for the first time, I secured a contract from the publisher Addison-Wesley Corp. and wrote the following book, which detailed my experiences, told a few of the things I had learned, and most important, gave me a chance to tell the stories of about 100 of the most innovative organizations I had visited to that point. Below is the Publisher's Weekly review and a picture of the book jacket.
Want to read a sample? You're welcome to take an online look at the Preface, which tells a little about how I got into this venture; the Introduction, "Give a Man a Fish;" and the Conclusion, "Lessons for All Americans," which wraps up a few ideas I picked up along the road.
Publisher's Weekly review, June 12, 1995 After winning a Pulitzer Prize with The Louisville Courier-Journal, Robin Garr joined the nonprofit advocacy group World Hunger Year in 1990 and undertook an examination of grassroots organizations devoted to helping the poor become self-reliant.
After visiting more than 200 cities, towns and villages in all 50 states and more than 500 projects, he details programs to assist Americans in securing food, shelter, decent housing, health care, political power, jobs skills and employment. The most effective agencies, he concludes, are multipurpose organizations that seek to identify and deal with problems using a one-on-one approach involving the people they serve as planners, builders and board members. The aim here is to help the down-and-out get back on their feet.
This upbeat volume has a message for individuals, groups, elected officials and government agencies and may inspire many of us to emulate the organizations studied here. An appendix titled "Getting Involved" lists more than 180 grassroots groups by state for readers stirred to action. Author tour (July)
We have a number of other recommended books about grassroots activism and issues available through our online Amazon.com Bookstore.
Reinvesting In America
The Grassroots Movements That Are
Feeding the Hungry,
Housing the Homeless
and Putting Americans Back to Work
By Robin Garr, foreword by David Osborne, $23 (288p)
ISBN 0-201-40756-6
Still available Although Reinvesting In America eventually went out of print after more than five years on the publisher's list, used and new copies are often available at Amazon.com in hardcover.
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