Mal Warwick Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, California, United States

Several times weekly I post reviews of the books I've most recently read. I cover nonfiction, especially history, biography, current affairs, and science. I read and review a great many mysteries and thrillers as well as science fiction and popular fiction, notably historical fiction. I review a book only when I've read it cover to cover, meaning that the many books I never finish do not appear on my blog. To access the blog, go to malwarwickonbooks.com. Each week I email subscribers a summary of the three to five book reviews I've posted during the past week.

Berkeley, California, And Washington, Dc

Mal Warwick Donordigital, with offices in Berkeley CA and Washington DC, is one of the nation's preeminent fundraising agencies for progressive nonprofit organizations and political committees. Founded in 1979, the firm is a B Corporation, a California Benefit Corporation, and is employee-owned. Over the years, the company has raised more than one billion dollars in the form of small gifts for its hundreds of clients.

Berkeley, California

Beginning in May 2010, I helped launch and served on the Management Committee of this social enterprise, which is now a B Corporation and a California Benefit Corporation. One World Play Project has distributed more than two million virtually indestructible soccer balls to disadvantaged children and young people in over 185 countries.

After the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the US, The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, and Brave New World returned to the bestseller lists. The reemergence of these classic dystopian novels prompted me to take a closer look at the genre. In the months that followed, I refreshed my memory of the three classics and other dystopian tales, re-read some, and read dozens of others for the first time. Along the way, I’ve reviewed a great many of those books. Sometime in March 2017—I don't remember exactly when—I decided to pull together all my thoughts about the field in a new book. It’s available now on Amazon.If you’re a science fiction fan, like to speculate about the future, enjoy reading novels that challenge your preconceptions—or if you’re simply concerned with the direction our society is taking—you’ll enjoy my new book, Hell on Earth: What we can learn from dystopian fiction. Well, maybe not enjoy, but find it thought-provoking.You can learn more about the new book here for the Kindle edition, or here for the paperback. The publisher set the paperback price at $9.73. The Kindle edition costs just $2.99. Click here for a free preview of the book.

San Jose, California

The Fistula Foundation raises philanthropic funds to train surgeons and fund surgeries for some of the nearly one million women worldwide afflicted by obstetric fistula. The Foundation works in 30 countries in Africa and Asia.

This book, co-authored with Paul Polak, was released Sept. 9, 2013. In a bold challenge to the prevailing wisdom about addressing global poverty, Paul Polak (Out of Poverty) and Mal Warwick (Values-Driven Business) advance a visionary, market-driven solution sure to ruffle feathers in corporate boardrooms as well as at the U.N., the World Bank, and the leading NGOs promoting traditional economic development programs in the Global South. In 1950, the world’s population was 2.6 billion; today, 2.7 billion people struggle to get by on $2 a day or less. Asserting that none of the known players in the field has surmounted its biggest challenge — achieving scale — and that today’s multinational corporations have failed to grasp the opportunities for profit from billions of new customers, Polak and Warwick offer what they believe is the only practical answer to this challenge. They contend that severe poverty can be ended only by an infusion of private capital into new, mission-driven, multinational businesses that provide essential goods and services at affordable prices to the billions living in rural areas on $2 a day or less — and hire tens of millions of local staff in the process. They spell out, step by step, the guidelines and principles of a revolutionary new approach to designing and building profitable, large-scale, social enterprises that supply safe drinking water, electricity, housing, education, healthcare, and other necessities — a method they call Zero-Based Design.

Berkeley, California

The firm represents the merger of Mal Warwick Associates, Inc., a direct mail fundraising agency, and Donordigital LLC, an online fundraising and marketing firm, which together serve nonprofit organizations and progressive political candidates and committees nationwide. The firm has offices in Berkeley, California, and Washington DC.

San Francisco, California

Co-author with Paul Polak, The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New CustomersCo-Author with Ben Cohen, Values-Driven Business: How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have FunEditor, Social Venture Network SeriesBoard Member, 2012-13

Berkeley, California

Beginning in June 2015, when 50,000 people attended the inaugural Bay Area Book Festival held in downtown Berkeley, the Festival is an annual event supported by the University of California, Berkeley; the City of Berkeley; public broadcaster KQED; the San Francisco Chronicle; and numerous businesses and arts-related nonprofit organizations throughout the Bay Area.

Worldwide

reweave develops curriculum to teach empathy and entrepreneurship in radically new ways to students at all levels around the world, with its major effort underway in India. Learn more at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hiring-empathy-abhi-nangia?trk=prof-post.

San Francisco, California

For six years I served as a member of the board (2001 to 2007), two of those years as Vice-Chair and four years as Chair. Currently I chair the Board Nomination Advisory Council (2011 - ).

Washington D.C. Metro Area

NPCA is the alumni association of the Peace Corps, representing nearly a quarter-million serving and former Peace Corps Volunteers and staff members. Through the Peace Corps Community Fund, we advocate for an expanded Peace Corps and engage actively in development and humanitarian activities around the world through former Volunteers who return to service for brief periods.

Berkeley, California

The Northern California Book Awards are granted annually to the most outstanding books authored in the previous year by residents of Northern California. (Note: there are a lot of authors in Northern California!)

Redwood Shores, California

Board Chair, 2008 - 2014See http://www.greatnonprofits.org/ for information

San Francisco, California

Jossey-Bass is the publisher of seven of my books on fundraising.

Served for 6 years, chair for 1 year.

For nearly 20 years, I spoke on direct response fundraising at the annual International Conference of AFP as well as at dozens of events organized by AFP's local and statewide chapters.

Berkeley, California

Co-founded with Jeffrey Leiter, 1992.Chair for one year while Jeffrey Leiter served as Interim Mayor of Berkeley.

University Of California, Berkeley

I worked with Founding Executive Director Kellie McElhaney to shape the curriculum, establish the positioning, and name the Center, a unit of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Somerville, Massachusetts

With Joe White, my Co-Founder at the Progressive Group, Inc. (est. 1986), I participated in the merger discussions with Cambridge, MA-based Share Systems that led to the creation of the Share Group. At its peak, Share employed 600 and was the largest telephone fundraising firm serving progressive issue-based organizations and progressive political candidates and committees.

I helped maintain continuity through more than a decade of continuing change at the Symphony, assisting staff with fundraising and media relations and by helping maintain a friendly relationship between management and the members of the Orchestra.

Board Chair, 1988 to 1990

Northampton, Massachusetts

I worked with Co-Founder and CEO Joe White in setting up this telephone fundraising agency from scratch and building it into a highly competitive force in the national market for progressive issue-based and political organizations.

I learned the ways and means of direct mail fundraising from co-owners Bill Dodd and Richard Parker, managing as many as 14 clients at a time, nearly all of them based in Washington, DC.

Working with a large and growing complement of volunteers, I built BCA into a 2,000-member citizens' organization in a community of about 100,000 and led the organization in its most successful election campaign, placing a new mayor and a near-majority of the City Council in office and passing all the ballot measures we advanced -- in the face of an overwhelming financial disadvantage.

Ambato And Quito, Ecuador

Community development volunteer in the indigenous village of Salasaca, 1966; coordinator, Campesino Leadership Training Program, 1967-69.

Bachelor Of Arts (A.B.), History And Political Science

Activities and Societies: President, University Young Democrats (1962-63).

Education record