Community Solutions, a nonprofit organization working to end homelessness in the United States that was recently selected for the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change award, has succeeded in part due to its founder’s “generosity mindset.”
That’s according to Paul Shoemaker, the author of “Taking Charge of Change: How Rebuilders Solve Hard Problems.” The newly released book features leaders such as Community Solutions’ Rosanne Haggerty, who Shoemaker said embodies this leadership trait, “moving past all diversions, getting the best from everyone, making their whole greater than the sum of its parts.”
A generosity mindset is one of five traits that all leaders need to take on complexity, Shoemaker said in a talk at last week’s Greater Giving Summit, an invitation-only series of online events hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.