Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Philanthropy & Charity

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...

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.

"This small, polished gem of a book is one compelling answer to many questions about how to inject meaning in our lives...."
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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.
Viti contends that hand-outs do not help develop communities; a hand-up is what's needed to achieve...

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.

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Andrew Carnegie Speaks for the 99%
(formerly The Gospel of Wealth)

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...

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...

Throughout the 1990s, MEdecins Sans FrontiEres (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of major outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries. Humanitarian workers were confronted with the execution of close to one million people, tens of thousands of casualties pouring into health centres, the flight of millions of others who had sought refuge in camps and a series of deadly epidemics.Where and in what circumstances were the MSF teams deployed? What medical and non-medical assistance were they able to...