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Nicholas Kristof is one of the most-honored journalists of our time. He’s regarded by many of his peers as the “moral conscience of journalism” for his decades-long work exposing human rights abuses and human trafficking. Among a plethora of other awards and distinctions, Kristof received a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 along with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, for their reporting on the student democracy movement in China and the Tiananmen Massacre. Kristof is best known today for his twice-weekly New York Times Op-Ed column, which I read without fail. Bill and Melinda Gates even credit one of Kristof’s columns with pointing them toward an emphasis on world health in their philanthropic work.A Path Appears is the fourth book to appear by Kristof and WuDunn and in some ways the most ambitious. Two earlier works grew out of their reporting from China. Then they wrote Half the Sky, a New York Times bestseller that explored the oppression and the potential of women to build a better world. In A Path Appears, the couple set their sights higher:“So many social problems in the twenty-first century seem intractable and insoluble. We explore Mars and embed telephones in wristwatches, but we can’t keep families safe in inner cities. We can map subatomic particles such as gluons, and we can design robots that drive cars, respond to speech, and defeat grandmasters in chess, but we grudgingly accept failure in our struggles to keep kids in school, off drugs, and out of gangs.”Through snapshots of extraordinary individuals who building large-scale, mission-driven enterprises, both for-profit and nonprofit, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate the capacity of the human race to prevail against our most deep-seated social and economic challenges. However, they are by no means cheerleaders for knee-jerk philanthropic efforts to right the world’s wrongs; they devote considerable effort to discussing the many missteps that others have taken along the same road, and they acknowledge that massive resources have been squandered in failing attempts by outsiders to improve the lives of the poor.At its most venturesome, A Path Appears is an attempt to determine why some people are altruistic and what can be done to raise the level of compassion in the world. Kristof and WuDunn interview cognitive scientists and even undergo brain scans themselves to gain better understanding of the chemical basis of altruism. Their exploration leads to conclusions few readers will find surprising: that helping others makes us feel good about ourselves, and that philanthropy is its own reward.However, the authors deplore the failure of the nonprofit sector to achieve scale. “Researchers from the Bridgespan Group wrote in the Stanford Social Innovation Review that more than 200,000 nonprofits have started since 1975, but that by 2008 only 201 had reached annual revenues of $50 million. In a similar time frame, more than 46,000 for-profit corporations broke the $50 million barrier.” Kristof and WuDunn note in passing that for-profit companies have the potential to be more sustainable than nonprofits. Unfortunately, they don’t acknowledge the implications of this contrast: that market-driven models hold far more promise for addressing global problems at scale than do philanthropic ones. If there’s a flaw in this book, that’s it.However, for a general audience seeking answers to how the human race can thrive in the face of the world-class challenges facing us, A Path Appears is a brilliant survey of what’s possible. In the final analysis, as Kristof and WuDunn conclude, “Our efforts at altruism have a mixed record of success at helping others, but they have an almost perfect record of helping ourselves.”

The words are part of a quote from the Chinese writer, Lu Xan: “Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.” The words are also the title of the book by husband-wife writing team, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Worldwide correspondents, they have won multiple Pulitzers and witnessed many cultures, seeing both the good and the bad of each and watching how quickly little things can make a difference, especially when it comes to giving, not only monetarily but of oneself by advocating or mentoring. The subtitle of the book is Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity. Their book is a good reminder of what we begin to feel for others if only because we are made aware of just how fortunate we are. Certainly the appeals that flood our inboxes and mail begin to overwhelm us, something the authors mention as to why they undertook the writing of this book. "So many social problems in the twenty-first century seem intractable and insoluable. We started our married life together as foreign correspondents for The New York Times, and we have wondered for years how we can do a better job addressing the needs around us. Not everyone can help fight crime in a city's worst neighborhoods or volunteer in schools, so most of us are left to engage in piecemeal efforts such as a donation here or there. Like many Americans, we have day jobs we need to keep, and we have been busy raising our children; that has left us looking for great causes and people to support in modest ways. We aren't regular churchgoers who focus our giving on a particular religious establishment, and although we wanted to lend a hand, we never knew how to choose among the appeals from nonprofits that inundated us. Basically, we were mystified about how best to assist at home as well as abroad. So we investigated how one can do a better job of making a difference, how one can help institute effective change." This book is the fruit of our labors. The changes mentioned in the book are small but fulfilling, and so spread throughout the world that one is continually surprised at how many good causes and people are out there, people really trying and making a difference, be they dirt poor (a phrase that originated from medieval days when one didn't have enough money to even purchase a mat or some sort of flooring to cover the dirt ground of one's home) to flooded with riches or success. I mention the latter word because of a few sentences in the book. "Successful people often scorn those who are poor or homeless. A Princeton University scholar, Susan Fiske, has used scans to show that the brains of high-achieving people see images of poor people and process them as if they were not human but things." Just one example of the ease of making a difference came from their chapter, A Thirty-Million Word Gap. In this section, studies showed that "a child on welfare heard about 3 million words spoken a year, a working-class child about 6 million words a year, and a child of professionals about 11 million words annually." Hearing such an increased number of words led to higher IQ scores and higher achievement. But more so, "Children on welfare heard two words of discouragement for every encouraging one, while children of professionals received six encouraging words for every discouraging one," often not because they mean to but rather because of the stress of their struggling needs and, for the most part, their own upbringing. Even more interesting was the studies of brain scans showing that babies readily discern the difference between hearing a human talking to them and a television voice talking to them, treating the human voice as "social interaction" and treating the television or computer voice as "random noise." So much for Sesame Street. One simple effort is called Reach Out and Read which pediatricians "prescribe" reading for babies and young children. Says medical director Perri Klass, "For many parents, reading to a six-month-old before she can even speak seems alien. And in so many homes, the only book is a Bible on a high shelf, and you wash your hands before taking it down, and you certainly don't hand it to a toddler." One study of low-income Hispanic children found that "64% of the families reported that they didn't have a single children's book in their home." Reading to babies and pre-kindergarden children is now becoming more and more accepted as the results begin to pour in. Vocabularies and proficiencies are up, as are graduation rates in later studies. Parents enrolled in such programs report that reading to their children is now one of their favorite activities, not only for them as the parents but also for their children. And the average cost? $20 per child. Even business leaders and CEOs of groups such as Macy's and Proctor & Gamble are recognizing the ROI (return on investment) by funding such early childhood reading, saying, "investing in early childhood achieves the best ROI for our country. Currently more than 90 percent of our education dollars are spent after age five, yet 85 percent of a child's core brain structure is developed before age five." Who knew that the age-old (if diminishing) practice of reading a story to child at night (as so idyllically portrayed in the movies) would not only make a comeback, but would prove so valuable? Below are just a few of the many groups the authors mentioned in their book, those advocating for childhood reading and each doing so in its own unique and effective way. And this is but one small section of the book. If you're finding yourself as confused as the authors, sorting through the blizzard of mail and tinkling bells requesting money for the holidays, then you might want to pick up this book and have it bring a bit of joy in your life. The giving is happening all over the world and in ways well beyond that of writing a check! Goodnight Moon is back!

This is one of my favorite books ever! I have given it as a gift so many times. Each chapter tells the true story of one or a group of people doing wonderful things to make positive changes in our world, some in completely unexpected ways. This is my favorite inspirational book, as it shows we all have the ability to make change and to help others, maybe in ways we never considered. I highly recommend it!

Kristof and WuDunn follow on the successful Half the Sky and continual coverage of social issues through news stories, columns and social media in this work that makes the connection between the stories they tell and the audience that consumes them. In the process, they answer a lingering question for folks: What, really can one person do to help. It turns out, quite a bit, and the book contains extensive lists of agencies and projects worth supporting as well as narratives and evidence-based methods used to assess if charities actually can make a difference in big, hard problems like deep poverty.It's engaging throughout, and does strike a balance between intriguing, encouraging and inspiring.

The book itself is an important book that I think everyone should read, not just bleeding heart liberals like myself. I appreciate its more objective approach to charity and philanthropy, pointing out the failings and rough starts. As a total nerd, I really loved the science of giving, too. Olivia Wilde narrates the audiobook, and her work is appropriate for the text, somber and serious when needed but also interjecting life and humor when the book calls for it. Her voice is very easy to listen to. This book was also a perfect gift to a friend of mine who is trying to get more involved in mission work, though I did warn her that the intro will break your heart a little (okay, a lot).

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