"One-by-one, the changemakers whose stories are collected in this book are inventive, brave, and effective. Taken as a group, they are full of positive, practical insights for increasing America's opportunities and addressing its failures."?James Fallows, co-author of 'Our Towns'"Grab this book! It dives into the wisdom of nearly two dozen Ashoka Fellows whose solutions are alive and working in today's America. These stories should be filling our news feeds."?Baratunde Thurston, Author and host of How to Citizen with Baratunde
"Frischen and Zakaras do an excellent job of illustrating solutions that are simpler than we think and playing out in communities across the country. While the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to physically isolate, it showed the way communities in crisis find a path to solutions together, and this book is an excellent, timely example of what those solutions can grow into given time and attention."?Philanthropy News Digest
"The strength of social networks helps you get through racism, sexism. It helps you emotionally. That mutuality within a community is the factor that anti-poverty programs tend to overlook. They promote a relationship back to the social worker. They don't promote the relationship between families."?Mauricio Lim Miller, Founder, president, and CEO of the Family Independence Initiative and the Community Independence Initiative
"One in five [people in foster care] experience homelessness the day they age out. Why? Because think of it: we're asking teenagers to go from having all these case managers in charge of all aspects of their life, from being micromanaged, to being full-on responsible for their own survival, their food, shelter, job. With zero support. And literally overnight. We don't have that kind of expectation of most eighteen-year-olds, right?"?Sixto Cancel, Founder and current CEO of Think of Us
