This book introduces elected officials and civic volunteers throughout our country to proven recipes for success they can use when they set out to solve problems existing in their towns, counties, and states. As a country, we are not without solutions. If we just imitate successful strategies already developed by our fellow Americans, we can lower birth defects, increase educational levels, reduce unwanted pregnancy, create employment, clean up the environment, rehabilitate prisoners, help single parents do a better job raising the next generation, deliver better health care, feed the hungry,...

Be inspired by this selection of 28 proven things you can do outside the classroom that result in dramatic improvements in student success--and change lives forever.

This book is a collection of stories about communities that have made a significant positive impact on their local economy by using easily duplicated strategies you can do in your own town. You can: -Make slight improvements to well established practices, like new business "incubators," and change their emphasis, resulting in significantly more bang for the buck. -Use new digital tools to enable groups of small local business people to band together and get large customers. -Make changes to traditional "gift cards" and increase local sales. - Increase the amount invested in local business by...