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Legacy: The Kreielsheimer Foundation
ISBN: 9780295986036 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Legacy is the fascinating inside story of how a great foundation touched dozens of organizations and countless people. Seattle's cultural life, notable for its intellectual verve and rich variety, received an unexpected and enduring gift through the foresight of Leo and Greye Kreielsheimer. Through the provisions of the foundation they established, their fortune has been conveyed over a twenty-five year period to an astonishingly wide range of cultural institutions - centers of the Seattle, Puget Sound, and Alaska arts communities. The presence on the Seattle scene of this... Legacy is the fascinating inside story of how a great foundation touched dozens of organizations and countless people. Seattle's cultural li... |
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141,40 zł |
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Private Action and the Public Good
ISBN: 9780300064490 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments around the world are turning over more of their services to private or charitable organizations, as politicians and pundits celebrate participation in civic activities. But can nonprofits provide more and higher-quality services than governments or for-profit businesses? Will nonprofits really increase social connectedness and civic engagement? This book, a sequel to Walter W. Powell's widely acclaimed The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, brings together an original collection of writings that explores the nature of the "public good" and how private nonprofit...
Governments around the world are turning over more of their services to private or charitable organizations, as politicians and pundits celebrate part...
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393,68 zł |
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Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector
ISBN: 9780306465475 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit organizations as well as the sector as a whole. Renowned scholars present chapters on the state of the art of performance measurement in the nonprofit sector and seek to establish a framework for a long-term research agenda to identify, quantify, and self-assess those qualities that make the nonprofit sector unique.
One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit...
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605,23 zł |
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Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector
ISBN: 9780306465482 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit organizations as well as the sector as a whole. Renowned scholars present chapters on the state of the art of performance measurement in the nonprofit sector and seek to establish a framework for a long-term research agenda to identify, quantify, and self-assess those qualities that make the nonprofit sector unique.
One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit...
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605,23 zł |
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The Compassionate Memsahibs: Welfare Activities of British Women in India, 1900-1947
ISBN: 9780313260599 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Compassionate Memsahibs" refutes the traditional view--perpetuated in the works of writers like Rudyard Kipling--of the memsahibs as a homogeneous group of aloof, pampered women who had little interest in India. Here Mary Ann Lind presents information about the lives of fifteen memsahibs--all of which is previously unpublished--who voluntarily participated in reform and welfare activities in India during the first half of this century. Their activities and experiences placed them outside the more expected lifestyle of the memsahib and offer contemporary social historians a new window... "The Compassionate Memsahibs" refutes the traditional view--perpetuated in the works of writers like Rudyard Kipling--of the memsahibs as a homogen... |
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359,42 zł |
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Working Together For Young Children: Multi-professionalism in action
ISBN: 9780415092487 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With 1994 designated the United Nations Year of the Family, young children and their relationship with parents and carers is firmly back on the political agenda. Amongst recent legislation to meet this agenda in Britain is the Children Act 1989. The Act seeks to improve the position and perception of children in society, by stressing the rights of children and the responsibilities that parents and the caring professions have towards them.
Working Together For Young Children addresses the central issues facing young children and their families in the light of this new social and... With 1994 designated the United Nations Year of the Family, young children and their relationship with parents and carers is firmly back on the politi...
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165,80 zł |
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Sweet Charity: The Role and Workings of Voluntary Organizations
ISBN: 9780415138000 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world of UK charities has been transformed. Gone are the days when charities gained the majority of their money from rattled tins. Fundraising is a sophisticated art and charities often manage multi-million pound contracts to provide services. Those who manage such organizations are expected to adapt to an ever-changing world.
Sweet Charity is about this changing world; the skills needed to manage, fundraise, run a successful lobbying campaign or attract new work and the way in which UK charities will increasingly operate in a European environment. Broadly divided into three... The world of UK charities has been transformed. Gone are the days when charities gained the majority of their money from rattled tins. Fundraising is ...
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707,28 zł |
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Museum Volunteers : Good Practice in the Management of Volunteers
ISBN: 9780415182096 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work reviews research on the changing priorities of museums and describes and analyses the strengths of five volunteer programmes in Canada and the USA. The book reports on the findings of five volunteer programmes set up and managed by the authors in the Science Museum, London and examines the development of these and the subsequent establishment of a permanent volunteer programme there.
This work reviews research on the changing priorities of museums and describes and analyses the strengths of five volunteer programmes in Canada and t...
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707,28 zł |
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The Emergence of Social Enterprise
ISBN: 9780415253017 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the characteristics of social enterprises? What are the future prospects for social enterprises? What do social enterprises contribute? Analyzing social enterprises in fifteen different countries, The Emergence of Social Enterprise seeks to answer these important questions while investigating the remarkable growth in the 'third sector'. Using the social enterprises as case-studies, theory and practice is combined in a compelling argument to support the concept of an 'emergence' of social enterprise. Written by leading academics, in an accessible yet... What are the characteristics of social enterprises? What are the future prospects for social enterprises? What do social enterprises contribute? |
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902,39 zł |
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Children in Foster Care
ISBN: 9780415311649 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal study of 235 such children who entered the foster care system in Southern Australia between 1998 and 1999. As well as examining the changing policy context of children's services, the book documents the psychosocial outcomes for these children,...
Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There ar...
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878,00 zł |
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Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800
ISBN: 9780415365598 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines the relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in a variety of national settings, including Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Canada and Germany during the last two hundred and fifty years. International in perspective, this is the first book to examine the variety of relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in Europe and America. An impressive list of contributors come together to investigate the issue of provision and its history in various geographical areas, and to create a book as topical as it is... This collection examines the relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in a variety of national settings, including Britain, the Un... |
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780,44 zł |
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Creative Philanthropy : Toward a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780415370905 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philanthropy and endowed foundation are good and vitally important institutions of modern society. They fit in well with the way advanced market economies are developing, in particular with the nexus between private and public benefit in an era of "small" government and greater social diversity. As institutions, however, they are facing new threats: declining resources relative to needs, and questions about their accountability and performance. In recent years individual philanthropists and foundation leaders have looked to strategic philanthropy as a way of becoming more effective and...
Philanthropy and endowed foundation are good and vitally important institutions of modern society. They fit in well with the way advanced market econo...
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926,78 zł |
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Creative Philanthropy: Towards a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780415370912 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philanthropy and endowed foundation are vitally important institutions of modern society, yet in recent years, they've faced new threats such as declining resources and questions of accountability and performance. To address these questions, individual philanthropists and foundation leaders have looked to strategic philanthropy to become more effective and efficient. This important book provides an overview of creative philanthropy along with an analysis of its theory and practice. The authors spell out the implications of their study for management and policy and provide readers...Philanthropy and endowed foundation are vitally important institutions of modern society, yet in recent years, they've faced new threats such as de... |
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273,11 zł |
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Philanthropy in England
ISBN: 9780415401937 / Angielski / Twarda / 878 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these classic works, now reissued by Routledge, Professor Jordan studies the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England. He is concerned with the momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as reflected in the charities which were established by gifts and bequests. In a fascinating account of the measures taken by the Tudors and Stuarts to deal with the problem of poverty, Jordan concludes that it was principally dealt relieved by an immense outpouring of charitable wealth.
In these classic works, now reissued by Routledge, Professor Jordan studies the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England. He is c...
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2073,06 zł |
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Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
ISBN: 9780415974462 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, a local collaboration created by foundations and corporate funders following the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, Ira Silver analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighbourhoods. Silver's book investigates how community-based organizations strategically attempt to assert influence over foundation funding priorities. The book draws upon several years of qualitative research about comprehensive community initiatives undertaken by philanthropic foundations during the eighties and...
Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, a local collaboration created by foundations and corporate funders following the 1992 Los Angeles Ri...
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438,95 zł |
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Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism -- America's Charity Divide -- Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why I
ISBN: 9780465008230 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert, spent years researching giving trends in America, and even he was surprised by what he found. In Who Really Cares, he identifies the forces behind American charity: strong families, church attendance, earning one's own income (as opposed to receiving welfare), and the belief that...
We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotyp...
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65,14 zł |
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Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution
ISBN: 9780471448525 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a coherent framework for pursuing such far-ranging changes, this easy-to-understand book addresses new ways for individuals and organizations to invest grant funds, approach regulatory structures that guide giving, and define their goals, activities, outcomes, and achievements. The author applies basic principles of industrial theory and evolution to examine, with a trained scholar's eye, how individual organizations, associations, and the philanthropic infrastructure can work more effectively.
Order your copy today Through a coherent framework for pursuing such far-ranging changes, this easy-to-understand book addresses new ways for individuals and organizations ...
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295,24 zł |
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Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
ISBN: 9780521474337 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the involvement of women in charity work in nineteenth-century Ireland. The author claims that sectarianism dominated women's philanthropic activity, and analyzes the work of women in areas of moral reform, such as prostitution and prison work. The book concludes that the most progressive developments in the care of the poor were brought about by nonconformist women who were later to become pioneers in the cause of suffrage.
This book examines the involvement of women in charity work in nineteenth-century Ireland. The author claims that sectarianism dominated women's phila...
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422,15 zł |
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Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
ISBN: 9780521483612 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the involvement of women in charity work in nineteenth-century Ireland. The author claims that sectarianism dominated women's philanthropic activity, and analyzes the work of women in areas of moral reform, such as prostitution and prison work. The book concludes that the most progressive developments in the care of the poor were brought about by nonconformist women who were later to become pioneers in the cause of suffrage.
This book examines the involvement of women in charity work in nineteenth-century Ireland. The author claims that sectarianism dominated women's phila...
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195,76 zł |
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A Tradition of Giving : Seventy-five Years of Myer Family Philanthropy
ISBN: 9780522850628 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the remarkable influence of the Myer family on the lives of Australians. This book tells Sidney Myer's classic 'rags to riches' story, which sets the foundation for four generations of Myer philanthropists. His generosity was epitomised by the legendary Christmas lunch he staged at the Melbourne Exhibition Building.
Explores the remarkable influence of the Myer family on the lives of Australians. This book tells Sidney Myer's classic 'rags to riches' story, which ...
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160,97 zł |
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