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Individual charitable donors look at overhead because overhead is something we can measure. But anyone who works in philanthropy knows that percentage spent on overhead is a misleading • and at times actively harmful • test. A new movement seeks to measure the effectiveness of charity in different ways. Organizations in Britain and the US are ranking charities by how much it costs them to reach their goal: What do they spend to provide someone with a year of health? A year of education? A year without hunger? These attempts to put numbers on charitable effectiveness are still new • and extremely controversial. Tina Rosenberg draws on reporting from her New York Times "Fixes" column to examine this new trend • and what it means for you, and how you can use this research to make your philanthropic dollars go much farther.
In one four-year period, the University of California at Berkeley had 29 black students who got an A or B in calculus. 29! Over the next four years, there were 125. How did Berkeley so dramatically raise calculus achievement for minority students? By using positive peer pressure. Berkeley founded a program in which minority students work in small groups on extra-hard math problems, teaching each other. Today, that program has spread to universities around the country and has greatly increased the number and achievements of minorities in calculus • and therefore the number successful in hard-science majors. Tina Rosenberg draws on academic research and her own reporting for her recent book, Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World, and her New York Times "Fixes" column to provide fresh ideas about how positive peer pressure can help all students to learn.
Chronic disease is robbing us of our health and costing us billions of dollars. But successfully managing chronic conditions requires behavior change. This isn't a job for doctors • it’s a job for positive peer pressure. Giving people information • especially scary information • doesn't work. People need a reason to act on information, and the most powerful motivator is identification with a new peer group. Tina Rosenberg draws on academic research and stories from her own reporting to show why our usual health strategies are not only wrong, they're making things worse. She provides fresh ideas about how to design and deliver effective behavior change.
Conventional efforts to promote healthier or greener living, more civic involvement, and stronger communities rely on giving people information • or warning them of the consequences of behavior as usual. These tactics usually fail. It is very human to be quite aware of the consequences of our behavior yet not apply that information to ourselves. How do we make that step to real behavior change? Through identifying with our peers. Peers are the messenger, but they're also the message; if you want people to recycle more, for example, research shows the most effective thing to say is "your neighbors are recycling." Tina Rosenberg draws on academic research and stories from her own reporting for her book and her New York Times "Fixes" column for a fresh, surprising, and inspirational talk that will transform the way you think about behavior change.
Each day in the news, we see stories about how society is failing. Now imagine if alongside those stories you saw solutions journalism -• stories about how people are combating these failures. So while some public schools are failing the poor, there are many schools across the U.S. that are giving underprivileged youth a great education. How they do it is a story journalists should be telling, covering the solutions as well as the problems -• without fluff, advocacy or public relations. Tina Rosenberg knows that in order to change, society first has to find out what works. These stories are what readers want -• and what society needs.
Tina Rosenberg is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Beyond Overhead: A New Way to Measure Effective Giving, The Power of the Group to Help Our Children Learn, Transforming America's Health & American Healthcare - with Peer Pressure, Harnessing Peer Pressure for Behavior Change and Changing Journalism to Change the World. The estimated speaking fee range to book Tina Rosenberg for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Tina Rosenberg generally travels from and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Laura Gassner Otting, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Leah Kral, Elijah Nicholas and Areva Martin. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Tina Rosenberg for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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