Funding Social Change is a well-crafted insider's perspective on how private foundations can enable social change. The book clearly explains the mainly self-imposed limitations, and enumerates the many pluses, of open and candid communication with grant seekers as key to the process.

Author Ronald W. Clement is the 20-year executive director of the soon-to-sunset Haigh-Scatena Foundation, established four decades ago by two philanthropic families as a means to achieve social change, especially in youth services. Clement's nonprofit experience as a runaway house founder in the '70s made him a fine fit for the foundation.