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    • The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
    • By: Chris Anderson
    • Narrated by: Chris Anderson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Let’s face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media....

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    • Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Toby Ord
    • Narrated by: Toby Ord
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 649 ratings
    • This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....

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    • How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 452 ratings
    • Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children's crusader. He is also, according to Jon Krakauer, not what he appears to be....

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    • How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference
    • By: John C. Maxwell, Rob Hoskins
    • Narrated by: John C. Maxwell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 643 ratings
    • You can bring about positive, lasting change in the world, and you don’t have to be rich and famous or lead a big organization to do it....

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    • The Future Is Better Than You Think
    • By: Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Authors Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years....

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    • The Heroic and Heartbreaking Story of Charity Hospital in Hurricane Katrina
    • By: Jim Carrier
    • Narrated by: Jim Carrier
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • First went the power. Then came the water, and for five days, the country’s oldest hospital was under siege. The never-before-told story of the heroic doctors, nurses, and patients who fought to survive Hurricane Katrina at Charity Hospital in New Orleans....

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    • A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
    • By: David Peter Stroh
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed....

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    • How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
    • By: William MacAskill
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 669 ratings
    • Most of us want to make a difference. Unfortunately we often base our decisions on assumptions and emotions rather than facts....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
    • By: Edgar Villanueva
    • Narrated by: Edgar Villanueva
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • The world is out of balance. With increasing frequency, we are presented with the inescapable truth that systemic racism and colonial structures are foundational principles to our economies....

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    • How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It)
    • By: Robert D. Lupton
    • Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity shows us how to start serving needy and impoverished members of our communities in a way that will lead to lasting change....

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    • Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself
    • By: Rachel Lloyd
    • Narrated by: Rachel Lloyd
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • In Girls Like Us, Rachel Lloyd reveals the dark world of commercial sex trafficking in cinematic detail and tells the story of her groundbreaking nonprofit organization....

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    • One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
    • By: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,739 ratings
    • In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya....

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    • A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope
    • By: Maggie Doyne
    • Narrated by: Maggie Doyne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • Maggie’s story begins in suburban New Jersey, in a comfortable middle-class family that supports her decision to travel the world during a gap year before starting college. During her travels, the trajectory of her life alters when she has a surprise encounter with a Nepali girl....

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    • A Life in Full
    • By: Peter L. W. Osnos - editor
    • Narrated by: Petrea Burchard, Shaun Grindell, Earl McLean, George Newbern
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • At age ninety-one, Soros still looms large on the global stage, and yet the man himself is surprisingly little understood. Biographers have attempted to tell the story of George Soros, but no single account of his life can capture his extraordinary, multifaceted character....

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    • How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good
    • By: Ann Mei Chang, Eric Ries - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kristina Horan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business, few social interventions have achieved significant impact at scale....

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    • Changing the World One Small Act at a Time
    • By: Brad Aronson
    • Narrated by: Gary J. Chambers
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Inspired by the many demonstrations of "humankindness" that supported Brad Aronson’s family through wife Mia's treatment and recovery from leukemia, he begins by talking about the people who rescued his family from that dark time....

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    • The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges
    • By: Brian Crimmins, Nathan Chappell, Michael Ashley
    • Narrated by: Christian Titus
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • In Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity's Greatest Challenges, accomplished philanthropy experts Nathan Chappell, Brian Crimmins, and Michael Ashley deliver a startlingly insightful exploration of the decline of American generosity....

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