Downloadable Reports

• All Politics is Local (and Personal)

• Building Social Capital and Political Will through Place-Based Initiatives

• Missing Links-An Interpersonal Theory of Social Change

• The Opportunity Makers

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We highly recommend these books which deal with the relationship of social capital to our community, economy and democracy:

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• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, by Robert Putnam

• Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama

• The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, by Francis Fukuyama

• Political Order and Political Decay, by Francis Fukuyama

• The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future, by Joseph E. Stiglitz

• Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, by Nicholas A. Christakis and‎ James H. Fowler

• The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, by Richard Wilkerson and Kate Pickett

• Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Picketty

• Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, by Kevin Phillips

• The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits, by John McKnight

• Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies, by Ernesto Sirolli

• The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty Is Wrong, by Mauricio L. Miller

• In Their Own Hands: How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development, by Jeffrey Ashe,‎ Kyla Jagger Neilan,‎ Frances Moore Lappé

• The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods, by John McKnight and Peter Block