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A Practical Framework for Positive Social Change
In 1987, Anne Firth Murray had the idea that funding should go to grassroots women's organizations around the globe and that the recipients themselves should decide how to use that money. From that idea, The Global Fund for Women was born. The organization became a major force for good in the world, embodying a new paradigm of philanthropy. In these pages, Murray shares her wisdom, offering guidelines that demonstrate how anyone can turn a clear vision of a better world into reality.
Paradigm Found is a guidebook for creating or reshaping institutions and businesses. It clearly demonstrates that any organization can be run on principles.
Anne Firth Murray is currently a consulting professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University and was recently nominated as one of the "1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize." After working at the UN and other nonprofit organizations, she co-founded The Global Fund for Women in 1987. The fund was devised to give small amounts of money ($5,000 to $10,000) to grassroots women's organizations at strategic times in their development. "I am grateful that Anne Firth Murray and thousands of women around the world dreamed, struggled, and succeeded in planting the seeds and reaping the harvest of the new paradigm she describes here so compellingly. Her experience and clarity provide an essential text for us all. Either we learn to lead organizations based on human generosity, kindness, and wisdom, or we will descend further into the chaos created when we disown these qualities."
In 1987, Anne Firth Murray had the idea that funding should go to grassroots women's organizations around the globe and that the recipients themselves should decide how to use that money. From that idea, The Global Fund for Women was born. The organization became a major force for good in the world, embodying a new paradigm of philanthropy. In these pages, Murray shares her wisdom, offering guidelines that demonstrate how anyone can turn a clear vision of a better world into reality.
Paradigm Found is a guidebook for creating or reshaping institutions and businesses. It clearly demonstrates that any organization can be run on principles.
Anne Firth Murray is currently a consulting professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University and was recently nominated as one of the "1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize." After working at the UN and other nonprofit organizations, she co-founded The Global Fund for Women in 1987. The fund was devised to give small amounts of money ($5,000 to $10,000) to grassroots women's organizations at strategic times in their development. "I am grateful that Anne Firth Murray and thousands of women around the world dreamed, struggled, and succeeded in planting the seeds and reaping the harvest of the new paradigm she describes here so compellingly. Her experience and clarity provide an essential text for us all. Either we learn to lead organizations based on human generosity, kindness, and wisdom, or we will descend further into the chaos created when we disown these qualities."