Sustainable Cities

In Connecting to Change the World, co-authors John Cleveland, Madeleine Taylor and Peter Plastrik offer practical guidance for social entrepreneurs, community-minded leaders, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropists on how to build and manage social-impact networks. Drawn from the authors’ deep experience in growing successful network projects, including the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, the book provides the frameworks, practical advice, case studies and expert knowledge needed to build better performing networks

Investing Strategically in Social-Impact Networks: A Guidebook for Foundations, a free companion piece to the book, provides a set of frameworks, tools and exercises for funders to explore how to invest in generative networks.