110 But slowly, she began: Ibid., 23.
111 Eventually, things turned around for her: Ibid., 5, 165.
112 Take the case of Annette Arca: Lynnette Curtis, “Jobless Volunteer Has Time to Spare,” 16 Nov. 2010, www.lvrj.com.
113 Then there’s Seth Reams, who lost his job as a concierge: Nancy Wood, “After Losing His Job, Portland Man Founds a New Nonprofit,” 6 May 2009, www.komonews.com.
114 More projects soon followed: Seth Reams, “People Call Us with Tales of Hunger, Home Loss, Job Loss, Personal Loss, and Myriad Difficulties,” 6 May 2010, www.wevegottimetohelp.blogspot.com.
115 “The ultimate measure of a man or woman”: Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1963), 35.
116 After spending months embedded: Sebastian Junger on Peal Time with Bill Maher, 14 May 2010, www.hbo.com.
117 But twenty-six million people are unemployed or underemployed: Rex Nutting, “GDP to Show More Balanced Growth, Survey Says,” 29 Apr. 2010, www.marketwatch.com.
118 over 4 percent of U.S. workers have been unemployed: Kevin Drum, “Who Are the Long-Term Unemployed?” 13 May 2010, www.motherjones.com.
119 And more and more people are entering the ranks of “the 99ers”: Arthur Delaney, “Tier 5: The Despair of the 99ers,” 28 May 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
120 Of course, a third of America’s unemployed: Jay Bookman, “Do Jobless Checks Subsidize Laziness? Research Shows …,” 21 Apr. 2010, www.ajc.com.
121 Making matters worse, there is a growing: Laura Bassett, “Disturbing Job Ads: ‘The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered,’ ” 4 Jun. 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
122 A study by researchers at Yale: “Rising Unemployment Causes Higher Death Rates, New Study by Yale Researcher Shows,” 23 May 2002, www.yale.edu.
123 Fifteen years ago, I wrote a book—The Fourth Instinct: Arianna Huffington, The Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 147–148.
124 As Pablo Neruda said: “To feel the intimacy of brothers …”: “Childhood and Poetry,” Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems, Robert Bly, ed. (Boston: Beacon, 1993), 12.
125 It was the happiness: Prov. 14:21 (King James edition).
126 He’s got the right words: “When you serve”: Barack Obama, commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, 17 Mar. 2009, www.whitehouse.gov.
127 In the immediate aftermath of 9/11: “Bush Says US Will Wage ‘Long and Unrelenting War,’ ” Associated Press, 15 Sept. 2001.
128 A month later he echoed that theme: George W. Bush, press conference, 11 Oct. 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov.
129 Of course, the sum total of his idea of sacrifice: Andrew J. Bacevich, “He Told Us to Go Shopping. Now the Bill Is Due,” 5 Oct. 2008, www.washingtonpost.com.
130 In 2009, for example, Teach for America received 35,000 applications: Associated Press, “Teach for America Applications Soar,” 28 May 2009.
131 In 2008, 75,000 AmeriCorps members: Alan Silverleib, “Hope in Cedar Rapids as Washington Pushes Volunteerism,” 22 Oct. 2010, www.cnn.com.
132 The Serve America Act, introduced by Ted Kennedy: “S. 277, the Serve America Act,” Democratic Policy Institute Legislative Bulletin, 23 Mar. 2009, www.dpc.senate.gov.
133 Approximately 280,000 special needs children: USA Freedom Corps, “Answering the Call to Service,” Sept. 2008, 19.
134 Eighty-one percent of the children: “Independent Research Shows National Service Program Enlisting Tutors over Age 55 Produces Big Gains in Student Learning,” 7 Apr. 2009, www.experiencecorps.org.
135 And students working with an Experience Corps tutor: Nancy Morrow-Howell et al., “Evaluation of Experience Corps,” Washington University in St. Louis, Jan. 2009, www.csd.wustl.edu.
136 When people used to offer to join: Susan Conroy, Mother Teresa’s Lessons of Love and Secrets of Sanctity (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2003), 199.
137 Geoffrey Canada provides a template: Dan Collins, “Harlem’s Miracle Man,” 22 Jan. 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
138 As reported by Metro: “A Model for Obama,” Metro, 17 Mar. 2009, www.metro.us.
139 He titled it “Waiting for Whom?”: Geoffrey Canada, “Waiting For Whom?” Harlem Children’s Zone, www.hcz.org.
140 Susie Buffett offers another shining example: Quotes and materials provided by Susie Buffett to the author in conversation and by email, May 2010.
141 In The Empathic Civilization, Jeremy Rifkin: Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (New York: Penguin, 2009), 12.
142 New scientific data tells us: Ibid., 47.
143 “An individual,” said Martin Luther King: Martin Luther King Jr., The Measure of a Man (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2001), 43.
144 the Huffington Post published a story about Monique Zimmerman-Stein: Julian Hattem, “Mom Goes Blind So Her Daughters Can See,” 28 Sep. 2009, www.huffingtonpost.com.
145 The Stein family’s story struck: Victoria Fine, “Help the Steins: Mother Who Went Blind to Save Her Children’s Sight Struggles with Medical Debt,” 13 Oct. 2009, www.huffingtonpost.com.
146 “We are on the cusp of an epic shift”: Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (New York: Penguin, 2009), 3.
147 “Seven billion individual connections”: Ibid., 594.
148 In his 1963 work “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” www.africa.upenn.edu.
149 Conservative commentator Tony Blankley: Left, Right and Center, 15 Jan. 2010, www.kcrw.com.
150 As America’s Misery Index soars: www.miseryindex.us.
151 “We have to lean on one another …”: Barack Obama, eulogy for West Virginia Miners, 25 Apr. 2010, www.whitehouse.gov.
152 David Brooks has written about the need: David Brooks, “The Broken Society,” 18 Mar. 2010, www.nytimes.com.
153 “Volunteering, especially among professional classes and the young”: Philip Blond “Cameron’s ‘Big Society,’ ” 25 Apr. 2010, www.guardian.co.uk.
154 In 2002 in San Francisco’s Mission district: “About 826,” www.826valencia.org.
155 In Brooklyn, New York, FEAST: Danny LaChance, “An Idea Grows in Brooklyn,” University of Minnesota Alumni Association, spring 2010, www.minnesotaalumni.org.
156 Matthew Bishop, U.S. business editor for the Economist: Howard Davies, “A New Take on Giving,” 10 Jan. 2009, www.guardian.co.uk.
157 Social entrepreneurs pinpoint social problems: Caroline Hsu, “Entrepreneur for Social Change,” 31 Oct. 2005, www.usnews.com.
158 Providing microcredit to small businesses: Devin Leonard, “Microcredit? To Him, It’s Only a Start,” 30 Apr. 2010, www.nytimes.com.
159 In 2008, Yunus’s Grameen bank opened a branch in New York: “About Us,” www.grameenamerica.com.
160 In 2010 it opened a branch in Omaha, Nebraska: “Grameen America Celebrates Grand Opening of Omaha Branch,” 24 Feb. 2010, www.grameenamerica.com.
161 The Grameen Bank’s slogan: “Banking for the unbanked”: Emily Belz, “Recession-Proof Banking?” World Magazine, 20 Jun, 2009, www.worldmag.com.
162 Hoping to serve one million American entrepreneurs: “About Us,” www.grameenamerica.com.
163 The average loan amount is $1,500 (no collateral necessary): Laura Thompson Osuri, “Coming to America,” American Banker, Apr. 2010, www.americanbanker.com.
164 Since 1991, ACCION USA: “About ACCION USA: Who We Are,” www.accionusa.org.
165 Luis Zapeda Alvarez: “Meet Our Borrowers: Bakery Delivery Service,” www.accionusa.org.
166 Another New Yorker, Lyn Genet Recitas: “Meet Our Borrowers: Neighborhood Holistic,” ACCION USA, www.accionusa.org.
167 DonorsChoose.org, for example, invites public school teachers: “Impact to Date,” May 2010, www.donorschoose.org.
168 In Connecticut, Web developer Ben Berkowitz: Dan
iel E. Slotnik, “News Sites Dabble with a Web Tool for Nudging Local Officials,” 3 Jan. 2010, www.nytimes.com.
169 Using the backbone of social networking to help people connect: Robin Wauters, “Google, Other Tech Heavyweights Back Volunteer Community Service All for Good,” 15 Jun. 2009, www.techcrunch.com.
170 When television journalist Andrea McCarren: Andrea McCarren, “A Laid-off Journalist Charts a New Course via Social Media,” Nieman Reports, Winter 2009, www.nieman.harvard.edu.
171 were inspired to launch Project Bounce Back: “About This Project,” www.projectbounceback.com.
172 And it would be great if: Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays (New York: The Century Co., 1901), 43.
173 the wealthiest 1 percent: G. William Domhoff, “Wealth, Income, and Power,” Apr. 2010, www.sociology.usc.edu/whorulesamerica.
174 The pair has launched The Giving Pledge: Carol J. Loomis, “The $600 Billion Challenge,” 16 Jun. 2010, www.fortune.cnn.com.
175 Buffett has promised to give: Warren Buffett, “My Philanthropic Pledge,” 16 Jun. 2010, www.fortune.cnn.com.
176 And others are starting to join in: Dakin Campbell and Katya Kazakina, “Broad, Bloomberg Back Buffett Call for Billionaire Donations,” 17 Jun. 2010, www.bloomberg.com.
177 If The Giving Pledge catches on: Carol J. Loomis, “The $600 Billion Challenge,” 16 Jun. 2010, www.fortune.cnn.com.
178 As Frederick Douglass put it: W. D. Wright, Racism Matters (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998), 178.
179 The perfect example of this came in March 1965: “The Presidents: LBJ,” 1991, www.pbs.org.
180 LBJ signed the National Voting Rights Act: E.W. Kenworthy, “Johnson Signs Voting Rights Bill, Orders Immediate Enforcement,” 7 Aug. 1965, www.nytimes.com.
181 Similarly, before the start of WWII, legendary labor leader A. Philip Randolph: Jervis Anderson, A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), 259.
182 former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain: Josh Fineman and David Mildenberg, “Thain Pushed Out at Bank of America After Merrill Loss Widens,” 22 Jan. 2009, www.bloomberg.com.
183 Goldman Sachs’s Lloyd “Doing God’s Work” Blankfein: John Arlidge, “I’m Doing ‘God’s Work.’ Meet Mr. Goldman Sachs,” 8 Nov. 2009, www.thetimes.co.uk.
184 BP’s Tony “I’d Like My Life Back” Hayward: Jad Mouawad and Clifford Krauss, “Another Torrent BP Works to Stem: Its CEO,” 3 Jun. 2010, www.nytimes.com.
185 President Obama has said that we find: Barack Obama, commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, 17 Mar. 2009, www.whitehouse.gov.
186 So, as we stand at this inflection point: Jonas Salk, The Survival of the Wisest (Harper & Row, 1973), 20.
187 “Few will have the greatness”: Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address,” 6 Jun. 1966, www.jfklibrary.org.
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