Mal Warwick reviews books on his blog, www.malwarwickonbooks.com. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twenty previous books. Most recently, he co-authored The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers with anti-poverty crusader Paul Polak. The book won a 2014 Axiom Business Book Award. He is also the author of the best-selling fundraising text, How to Write Successful Fundraising Appeals. The completely revised third edition was released in 2013.

Mal is the founder and chairman of Mal Warwick Donordigital (www.mwdagency.com), a firm with offices in Berkeley, California, and Washington, DC, that has provided fundraising and marketing services to nonprofit organizations nationwide since 1979. MWD is a Founding B Corporation, a California Benefit Corporation, and is now employee-owned. Among the hundreds of nonprofits Mal and his colleagues served over the years are many of the nation's largest and most distinguished charities as well as six Democratic Presidential candidates and scores of small, local, and regional organizations. Collectively, Mal and his associates have been responsible for raising more than one billion dollars¿largely in the form of small gifts from individuals.He also serves on the board of One World Play Project, a B Corporation he helped establish in Berkeley in 2010. The company manufactures and distributes tools for play, including a virtually indestructible soccer ball that never goes flat.

More than 1.6 million of those balls have been distributed to disadvantaged children and young people in 175 countries. A serial entrepreneur, Mal has been active in promoting social and environmental responsibility in the business community nationwide for more than two decades. He is the co-author of Values-Driven Business: How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun with Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry¿s. He also served as editor of the other six books in the Social Venture Network Series published in San Francisco by Berrett-Koehler.