From Ideas to Impact

Accelerate your real-world, social impact by driving systemic policy changes As Co-Founder of Global Citizen--an international education and advocacy organization with the mission to end extreme poverty worldwide--Michael Sheldrick has worked with governments, businesses, foundations, the artist community, and everyday citizens to distribute over $40 billion around the world over the past decade. Now, in From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing and Implementing Change in a Divided World, he delivers an inspiring and insightful discussion on how to implement social impact by driving policy change. An indispensable guide for individual changemakers, philanthropists, CSR and ESG professionals, policymakers, corporate foundations, and higher education students, this book features an overview of pressing challenges to avoid, an eight-step playbook for mastering policy entrepreneurship, and diverse examples spanning historical movements like the Transatlantic Slave Trade and FDR's New Deal to contemporary battles for climate justice, energy transition and gender equality. At its core, this uplifting book equips readers with the tools to craft their own impactful narratives that can inspire countless more success stories, reinforcing the idea that we are not prisoners of fate and that actual change begins with us