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Nonprofits and Their Networks: Cleaning the Waters Along Mexico's Northern Border
ISBN: 9780816526185 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the border of the United States and Mexico, few policy issues face such acute challenges as those related to water. Border cities face an uncertain future water supply, low-income neighborhoods often lack water and sewer services, and water contamination poses a risk to the health of residents and the environment. Responses by government agencies on both sides of the border have been insufficient. Increasing economic development has mainly resulted in increasing problems. These limitations of government and market forces suggest that nonprofit organizations the so-called third sector might...
On the border of the United States and Mexico, few policy issues face such acute challenges as those related to water. Border cities face an uncertain...
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234,13 zł |
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The Rise of Japanese NGOs: Activism from Above
ISBN: 9780415498029 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have exploded in number and emerged as a new force in international and transnational politics. Why, however, do some countries nonetheless have more active NGO sectors than others? Using the case of Japan, this book uncovers patterns of convergence and divergence in levels of activism across industrialized countries and offers a two-level political explanation for the rise of NGOs as a global phenomenon. The author argues that activism has been cultivated from "above" and shows the ways in which political... Over the past two decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have exploded in number and emerged as a new force in international and transnatio... |
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731,67 zł |
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NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-State Actors in Society and Politics Since 1945
ISBN: 9780230221093 / Angielski / Twarda / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the history of social movements and non-state socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have proliferated in Britain since 1945, and how they have raised new political agendas, revived associational life, and arguably re-politicized generations disillusioned with the politics of the ballot box.
Examining the history of social movements and non-state socio-political action, this volume shows how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have proli...
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403,47 zł |
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Non-Governmental Human Rights Organizations in International Relations
ISBN: 9780230201347 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human rights play a crucial role in today's international relations. They provide standards to which states must conform when dealing with their own citizens. Non-governmental human rights organizations remind states of their obligations in that field. Without this, human rights would have drifted to the bottom of the international agenda.
Human rights play a crucial role in today's international relations. They provide standards to which states must conform when dealing with their own c...
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201,72 zł |
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The Foundation: A Great American Secret: How Private Wealth Is Changing the World
ISBN: 9781586487027 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet just over 10 percent of the public knows they even exist; and for those who are aware of them, as well as even those who seek grants from them, their internal workings remain a complete mystery. Joel Fleishman knows the sector like few others, and in this groundbreaking book he explains both the history of foundationswith their fledgling beginnings in the era of the robber barons seeking social respectabilitythrough to the present day. This book shows how, why foundations...
Private foundations have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet just over 10 percent of the ...
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121,00 zł |
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Governance and Financial Sustainability of NGOs in South Africa
ISBN: 9783639122190 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study focused on governance and financial sustainability of NGOs in South Africa. The primary objective of the study was to evaluate existing governance and financial arrangements of NGOs with the view to developing alternative approaches to governance and financial arrangements with specific reference to lessons of experiences for South African NGOs. The secondary objectives of the study were to firstly develop a historical perspective on trends and tendencies of NGO funding in South Africa. A second objective was to provide a theoretical overview of the financial management and...
This study focused on governance and financial sustainability of NGOs in South Africa. The primary objective of the study was to evaluate existing gov...
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354,20 zł |
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Globalizing Social Justice: The Role of Non-Government Organizations in Bringing about Social Change
ISBN: 9780230221130 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the international NGO advocacy for social and environmental justice, this book looks at the fundamental issues of legitimacy, accountability and democracy that such activities involve and how they are manifested. It presents case studies on trade issues, labour rights, extractive industries and indigenous people in Asia and South America.
A study of the international NGO advocacy for social and environmental justice, this book looks at the fundamental issues of legitimacy, accountabilit...
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201,72 zł |
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The People Shall Rule: ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice
ISBN: 9780826516572 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing and the effectiveness of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Since 2002, ACORN has been dramatically expanding and raising its national profile; it has also been weathering controversy over its voter registration campaigns and an internal financial scandal. The twelve chapters in this volume present the perspectives of insiders like founder Wade Rathke and leading outside practitioners and academics. The result is...
With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing ...
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221,24 zł |
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Long Is the Way and Hard: One Hundred Years of the NAACP
ISBN: 9781557289094 / Angielski / Miękka / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking collection looks at the NAACP at all levels. Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in February 2009, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has been the leading and best-known African American civil rights organization in the United States. It has played a major, and at times decisive, role in most of the important developments in the twentieth century civil rights struggle. Drawing on original and previously unpublished scholarship from leading researchers in the United States, Britain, and Europe, this important collection of sixteen...
This groundbreaking collection looks at the NAACP at all levels. Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in February 2009, the National Association ...
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126,78 zł |
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The AIDS Pandemic in Uganda
ISBN: 9783639146349 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AIDS is registered as one of the major human
catastrophes facing the world today, its consequences far reaching. In Uganda successful fight against HIV/AIDS is well recognised. By 1991 Ugandas HIV/AIDS prevalence stood at about 30% in some parts of the country. This had reduced to about 5% by 2001. This success largely depended on the social and interpersonal networks referred to as social capital. The book documents the role of NGOs in mobilising social capital at different levels and its effect on HIV/AIDS challenges in Uganda. A major finding in the book is that the ways... AIDS is registered as one of the major human
catastrophes facing the world today, its consequences far reaching. In Uganda successful f... |
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354,20 zł |
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Long Is the Way and Hard: One Hundred Years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
ISBN: 9781557289087 / Angielski / Twarda / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking collection looks at the NAACP at all levels. Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in February 2009, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has been the leading and best-known African American civil rights organization in the United States. It has played a major, and at times decisive, role in most of the important developments in the twentieth century civil rights struggle. Drawing on original and previously unpublished scholarship from leading researchers in the United States, Britain, and Europe, this important collection of sixteen...
This groundbreaking collection looks at the NAACP at all levels. Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in February 2009, the National Association ...
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282,91 zł |
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Valuable Charities, Invaluable Women
ISBN: 9783639161250 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charities and nonprofit(NP)organisations are an
accepted feature of Australian civil society. In 2006-07 it was estimated there were 700,000 in the nonprofit sector. The most economically significant NPs employed 995,000 people. In 2008, 87% of these were women. This workforce gender profile has not changed throughout the sectorys history and it has significant implications for how care work is conceptualised, valued and included in broader society, politically, economically and culturally. This is a feminist critique of womens experience of working in charities. It explores the... Charities and nonprofit(NP)organisations are an
accepted feature of Australian civil society. In 2006-07 it was estimated there were 700,00... |
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354,20 zł |
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NGO and Social Movement Networking in the World Social Forum
ISBN: 9783639156478 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Social Forum has become a space for organized citizens to come together for different purposes (support, updates, education, coordination, campaigns, etc.). It has also become a sign of a massive aspiration for the global spread of democratic principles. Its intercultural complexities have not deterred participant organizations from experimenting with new forms of participation and action. The way in which populations from distant corners of our planet have engaged in an open dialogue within the WSF calls also for new ways of understanding such political engagements. This work...
The World Social Forum has become a space for organized citizens to come together for different purposes (support, updates, education, coordination, c...
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219,69 zł |
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Evaluating Transnational NGOs: Legitimacy, Accountability, Representation
ISBN: 9780230228719 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critics question the representativeness of NGOs, the democratic quality of their internal procedures, and their accountability to the wider public. This volume, written jointly by academics and practitioners, clarifies the issues at stake and controversially discusses proposals for reform.
Critics question the representativeness of NGOs, the democratic quality of their internal procedures, and their accountability to the wider public. Th...
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403,47 zł |
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Harnessing and Guiding Social Capital for Rural Development
ISBN: 9781403981967 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the harnessing of social capital, formalized as village or community organizations, to guide and facilitate collective action for attaining poverty alleviation in particular and enhancing community well-being in general.
This book is about the harnessing of social capital, formalized as village or community organizations, to guide and facilitate collective action for a...
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201,72 zł |
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The World Trade Organization: Institutional Development and Reform
ISBN: 9780230232570 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about how the WTO functions as a public organization. It analyzes and evaluates the WTO from a public administration perspective which is absent from the current debate on WTO reforms dominated by the traditional view that only nation states matter, not international organizations.
This book is about how the WTO functions as a public organization. It analyzes and evaluates the WTO from a public administration perspective which is...
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201,72 zł |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop: Environmental NGOs and Their Strategies Toward Business
ISBN: 9781933115788 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing complex environmental issues such as climate change, persistent bio-accumulative pollutants, and the conservation of biodiversity. At the same time, the landscape in which they operate is changing rapidly. Markets, and direct engagement with industry, rather than traditional government regulation, are often the tools of choice for NGOs seeking to change corporate behavior today. Yet these new strategies are poorly understood-by business, academics, and NGOs themselves. How will NGOs choose which battles to...
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing complex environmental issues such as climate change, persisten...
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780,44 zł |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop: Environmental NGOs and Their Strategies Toward Business
ISBN: 9781933115771 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing complex environmental issues such as climate change, persistent bio-accumulative pollutants, and the conservation of biodiversity. At the same time, the landscape in which they operate is changing rapidly. Markets, and direct engagement with industry, rather than traditional government regulation, are often the tools of choice for NGOs seeking to change corporate behavior today. Yet these new strategies are poorly understood-by business, academics, and NGOs themselves. How will NGOs choose which battles to...
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing complex environmental issues such as climate change, persisten...
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238,96 zł |
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Seeds of Change: The Story of Acorn, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group
ISBN: 9780826517050 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers." --Todd Gitlin Seeds of Change goes beyond the headlines of the last Presidential campaign to describe what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives, why it triggered an unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and how it confronted its internal divisions and scandals. Based on Atlas's own eyewitness original reporting, as the only journalist to have access to...
"There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Pali...
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544,05 zł |
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Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group
ISBN: 9780826517067 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers." --Todd Gitlin Seeds of Change goes beyond the headlines of the last Presidential campaign to describe what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives, why it triggered an unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and how it confronted its internal divisions and scandals. Based on Atlas's own eyewitness original reporting, as the only journalist to have access to...
"There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Pali...
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221,24 zł |
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