“Winning causes didn’t simply get lucky, and they don’t just coalesce out of thin air.”
– How Change Happens
How Change Happens released in stores April 16, 2018. Author Leslie Crutchfield has contributed expert commentary and articles to the following media:
The New York Review of Books
“How Change Happens”… reviewed by The New York Review of Books, serves as a blueprint for today’s movement leaders inspired to take action following Trump’s election. Featured in The Path of Greatest Resistance.
Add Passion and Stir Podcast:
How Social Change Happens
Philanthropy News Digest:
Book Review – How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t
The Business of Giving Podcast
Interview: Leslie Crutchfield, author of How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t, and Denver Frederick (audio)
Wharton Business Radio Highlights
The Success or Failure of Social Movements (audio)
Washington Business Journal
Too big to ignore: How social movements are becoming part of corporate life
Leslie Crutchfield on Dollars and Change
Originally aired on Sirius XM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School (audio)
#Trending: #NeverAgain and Social Movements
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business experts discuss what makes a social movement and how what we are seeing now differs from movements in the past.
The Final Five, Fox DC


Leslie Crutchfield’s previous books Forces for Good and Do More Than Give and have been featured in the following media:
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
“Creating High-Impact Nonprofits”
Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
“Local Forces for Good”
Chronicle of Philanthropy
“Seizing a Crisis: How Great Nonprofits Grew Amid the Economy’s Challenges”
Fortune / CNN
“What does it take for philanthropy to deliver results?”
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To request an interview with the author, please email businessforimpact@georgetown.