The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations
ISBN: 9781137263162 / Angielski / Twarda / 1460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by over 200 leading experts from more than seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research on volunteering, civic participation and nonprofit membership associations. It is the first book on the third sector to be truly multinational and interdisciplinary in scope.
Written by over 200 leading experts from more than seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest ...
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1475,26 zł |
The Third Sector Delivering Public Services: Developments, Innovations and Challenges
ISBN: 9781447322399 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the role of the third sector--voluntary or nonprofit groups--in the delivery of public services in the United Kingdom. It details the historical development of the relationship between the government and the third sector, reviews major debates and controversies that have accompanied the increasing reliance on third-sector work in recent years, and explores the various fields in which third-sector activity is prominent.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the role of the third sector--voluntary or nonprofit groups--in the delivery of public services in the Un...
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424,99 zł |
Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War
ISBN: 9781783601226 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "War on Terror" has politicized foreign aid in a way never before seen, with often devastating consequences. Aid workers are being killed in unprecedented numbers, and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate. From the battlefield in Afghanistan to the frontier refugee camps in Pakistan, the ravaged streets of Mogadishu to the tense flashpoint of the Turkey-Syria border, Peter Gill travels to some of the most conflict-stricken places on earth to reveal the new relationship between aid agencies and western security. While some agencies have clung to their neutrality, he...
The "War on Terror" has politicized foreign aid in a way never before seen, with often devastating consequences. Aid workers are being killed in unpre...
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80,70 zł |
Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War
ISBN: 9781783601233 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "War on Terror" has politicized foreign aid in a way never before seen, with often devastating consequences. Aid workers are being killed in unprecedented numbers, and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate. From the battlefield in Afghanistan to the frontier refugee camps in Pakistan, the ravaged streets of Mogadishu to the tense flashpoint of the Turkey-Syria border, Peter Gill travels to some of the most conflict-stricken places on earth to reveal the new relationship between aid agencies and western security. While some agencies have clung to their neutrality, he...
The "War on Terror" has politicized foreign aid in a way never before seen, with often devastating consequences. Aid workers are being killed in unpre...
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429,03 zł |
New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home: More Durable Than Marble
ISBN: 9780807163221 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A two-hundred-year-old institution, the Poydras Home -- originally the Poydras Asylum -- stands as an exemplar of woman-led charitable organizations. In a thorough and engaging narrative, Pamela Tyler offers the first complete history of this remarkable New Orleans establishment from its founding as an orphanage for young girls to its present-day operation as a retirement community and assisted-living facility. Throughout, Tyler paints a vivid picture of the many women who faced down the challenges of war, disease, natural disaster, social unrest, and restrictive gender ideals to realize... A two-hundred-year-old institution, the Poydras Home -- originally the Poydras Asylum -- stands as an exemplar of woman-led charitable organization... |
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215,11 zł |
From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism
ISBN: 9780190240356 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to helping those in need during times of disaster and hardship. They worked together on charitable ventures designed to strengthen the British empire, and ordinary men and women made donations for faraway members of the British community. Growing up in this world of connections, future activists from the British Isles, North America, and the West Indies developed expansive outlooks and transatlantic ties. The schism created by the Revolution fractured the community that nurtured this generation of...
In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to helping those in need during times of disaster and hardship...
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446,22 zł |
Operating Grants for Nonprofit Organizations
ISBN: 9781940750040 / Angielski / Miękka / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leaders of nonprofit organizations that oversee programs in the arts and culture, community and economic development, social services and more will be able to search more than 1,850 funding sources to pay for operating costs in this updated directory. Each record is listed in three indices: by subject, by program type and by geographic focus. Each record includes the grant title; amount of funding; description; application requirements; application deadline; contact information, including Internet address, email, phone number, fax, sponsor name and physical address; and samples of awarded...
Leaders of nonprofit organizations that oversee programs in the arts and culture, community and economic development, social services and more will be...
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484,64 zł |
On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti
ISBN: 9780982165690 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following her husband's untimely death, Margaret Trost visited Haiti to heal her broken heart through service. Struggling to make sense of the extreme poverty and touched by the warmth and resilience of those she met, she partnered with a local community and together they developed a program that now serves thousands of meals a week to those in need. On That Day, Everybody Ate is an autobiography of her remarkable journey. Following her husband's untimely death, Margaret Trost visited Haiti to heal her broken heart through service. Struggling to make sense of the extr... |
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81,12 zł |
Bearing Fruit: Microfinance - Empowering women, families and communities
ISBN: 9780987436924 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2013, social change facilitator Viti Kay Simmons' first book 'A tree needs water to bear fruit: Enterprising women creating reservoirs for poverty alleviation' tapped into the commonalities of women in small business globally. Viti drew on her research expeditions across Australasia and Nepal to contribute to the conversation about microfi nance and a new wave of philanthropy -- one that shifted the ability to make an extraordinary difference within the grasp of many. In 2013, social change facilitator Viti Kay Simmons' first book 'A tree needs water to bear fruit: Enterprising women creating reservoirs for pover... |
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95,49 zł |
Ngo's and the United Nations: Institutionalization, Professionalization and Adaptation
ISBN: 9781349543809 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation to the UN, their consultative status and their characteristic features influence their relationship with the UN. The case studies include some of the most renowned players on the international scene, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, CARE International and Oxfam International.
NGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation...
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194,08 zł |
A Historical Guide to Ngos in Britain: Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector Since 1945
ISBN: 9781349338597 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society, this book gives the reader a greater and more informed historical consciousness of how the NGO sector has grown and influenced.
Aiming to furnish the reader with the historical data to engage with the debates surrounding the Cameron government's 'Big Society' and civil society,...
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388,20 zł |
Humanitarian Aid and the Impoverished Rhetoric of Celebrity Advocacy
ISBN: 9781433134029 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term impacts of various forms of celebrity activism.
Each chapter illustrates how the impoverished rhetoric of celebrities often privileges the voices of those in the Global North over the efforts of local NGOs who have been working for years at addressing the same humanitarian crises. Whether we are talking about the building of schools for young... Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West this book ...
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322,50 zł |
Planned Giving: How to Ask for Transformational Legacy Gifts
ISBN: 9781532000089 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Planned Giving is the next great frontier in philanthropy. There has been double-digit growth in planned gifts over the past few years and that trend will continue. Non-profits that can invest some time each week in cultivating these gifts will see fundraising success for years to come. This book will help you develop a solid and repeatable strategy to identify and cultivate potential donors. This text is designed to deliver the tools and methods to help you organize your time and team to get maximum return on investment in this important area of fundraising. This book is... Planned Giving is the next great frontier in philanthropy. There has been double-digit growth in planned gifts over the past few years and that tre... |
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51,07 zł |
Andrew Carnegie Speaks for the 99%
ISBN: 9781515400455 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrew Carnegie Speaks for the 99% Before the 99% occupied Wall Street... Before the concept of social justice had impinged on the social conscience... Before the social safety net had even been conceived... By the turn of the 20th Century, the era of the robber barons, Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) had already accumulated a staggeringly large fortune; he was one of the wealthiest people on the globe. He guaranteed his position as one of the wealthiest men ever when he sold his steel business to create the United States Steel... Andrew Carnegie Speaks for the 99% Before the 99% occupied Wall Street... Before the concept of... |
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Humanitarian Aid and the Impoverished Rhetoric of Celebrity Advocacy
ISBN: 9781433134036 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term impacts of various forms of celebrity activism.
Each chapter illustrates how the impoverished rhetoric of celebrities often privileges the voices of those in the Global North over the efforts of local NGOs who have been working for years at addressing the same humanitarian crises. Whether we are talking about the building of schools for young... Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West this book ...
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1096,39 zł |
Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa
ISBN: 9781349290918 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so important to Americans? These travel stories show how encounters with Africans lead to a problematic desire to save Africa. Kathryn Mathers argues that this is then seen as a way to resolve the tensions between aspirations for a globally responsible America and the current reality of its geopolitical role. This book draws fascinating new conclusions about the connections and disconnections on which contemporary American identity is formed.
Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so important...
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388,20 zł |
The Biafran Humanitarian Crisis, 1967-1970: International Human Rights and Joint Church Aid
ISBN: 9781611479737 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the Biafran humanitarian crisis of 1967-1970 which generated a surge of human rights anxieties and attracted the attention of world humanitarian organizations. For the first time in recent history, different church groups and humanitarian activists around the world came together for the sole purpose of alleviating human suffering and saving lives regardless of theological differences, race, ethnic affiliation, nationality, and geographical distance. Despite their role in shaping the course and outcome of the conflict, most scholars of the Nigeria-Biafra War treat the...
This book focuses on the Biafran humanitarian crisis of 1967-1970 which generated a surge of human rights anxieties and attracted the attention of wor...
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451,61 zł |
A Fraught Embrace: The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa
ISBN: 9780691173924 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in Africa In the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals descended on Africa from faraway places to offer their help and save lives. A Fraught Embrace shows how the dreams of these altruists became entangled with complex institutional and human relationships. Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins vividly describe the often mismatched expectations and fantasies of those who seek to help, of the villagers who desperately seek... The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in Africa In the wake of th... |
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159,39 zł |
Philanthropy and the National Park Service
ISBN: 9781349471072 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the National Park Service prepares for its 2016 centennial, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of philanthropy and the national parks - exploring the challenges faced when working with non-profit philanthropic partners.
As the National Park Service prepares for its 2016 centennial, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of philanthropy and the national pa...
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388,20 zł |
Nongovernmental Organizations in International Society: Struggles Over Recognition
ISBN: 9781349369867 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining insights from the English School of International Relations and recent Frankfurt School works, Heins furthers the understanding of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in radically new and unexpected ways.
Combining insights from the English School of International Relations and recent Frankfurt School works, Heins furthers the understanding of internati...
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194,08 zł |