Fix Me Up Quickly: How to Repair Communities at Their Core: Lessons from a Life Spent Giving and Receiving

Before he became one of the world’s leading thinkers on community service and philanthropy, John Brothers was a young community organizer trying to make change from the inside out. Raised in abject poverty, surrounded by food and housing insecurity, addiction, gun violence, and the deep wounds of generational trauma, he knew the sting of being “helped” by well-meaning outsiders who had no idea what lasting support really looked like. He didn’t want one-off charity—he wanted change at the co...