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In the Shadow of Just Wars : Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action
ISBN: 9781850657378 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this text international experts and members of the MSF analyse the way issues surrounding the role of aid organizations in just wars have crystallized over the five years spanning the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
In this text international experts and members of the MSF analyse the way issues surrounding the role of aid organizations in just wars have crystalli...
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109,15 zł |
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First World, Third World
ISBN: 9780333759769 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new updated and extended edition of First World, Third World examines the failures of aid to eliminate poverty. The world development effort can claim only limited success, and in some parts of the world, especially Africa, failure must be recognised. William Ryrie, while starting from a position of sympathy with the aims of the aid effort, insists that the record must be analysed with ruthless honesty. Well-intentioned aid has often had perverse and harmful effects. One of these has been to undermine the working of the market economy, which offers the best hope for development and...
This new updated and extended edition of First World, Third World examines the failures of aid to eliminate poverty. The world development effort can ...
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382,84 zł |
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First World, Third World
ISBN: 9780333759752 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new updated and extended edition of First World, Third World examines the failures of aid to eliminate poverty. The world development effort can claim only limited success, and in some parts of the world, especially Africa, failure must be recognised. William Ryrie, while starting from a position of sympathy with the aims of the aid effort, insists that the record must be analysed with ruthless honesty. Well-intentioned aid has often had perverse and harmful effects. One of these has been to undermine the working of the market economy, which offers the best hope for development and...
This new updated and extended edition of First World, Third World examines the failures of aid to eliminate poverty. The world development effort can ...
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382,84 zł |
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Charity, Philanthropy and Reform: From the 1690s to 1850
ISBN: 9780333674048 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume explore continuities and changes in the role of philanthropic organizations in Europe and North America in the period around the French Revolution. They aim to make connections between research on the early modern and late modern periods, and to analyze policies towards poverty in different countries within Europe and across the Atlantic. Cunningham and Innes highlight the new role for voluntary organizations emerging in the late eighteenth century and draws out the implications of this for received accounts of the development of welfare states.
The essays in this volume explore continuities and changes in the role of philanthropic organizations in Europe and North America in the period around...
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382,84 zł |
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Rhetorics of Welfare: Uncertainty, Choice and Voluntary Associations
ISBN: 9780333803592 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explores comparatively the role of non-profit organizations in conditions of social and economic change. The focus of the study is an investigation of the proposition that non-profit organizations provide sites and processes for enhancing active citizenship, invigorating the public sphere and extending political participation. The study explores the economic constraints on voluntary associations and argues that they can function as 'schools of democracy'. This book is the first national study of the third-sector in Australia, but its conclusions have a general relevance to...
The book explores comparatively the role of non-profit organizations in conditions of social and economic change. The focus of the study is an investi...
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382,84 zł |
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Women Who Give Away Millions
ISBN: 9780888821874 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book pays tribute to 14 women who donated millions of dollars to causes close to their hearts. Iris Nowell is the author of five books. Writing her 1996 book, Women Who Give Away Millions, has given her a solid foundation of philanthropy, the not-for-profit sector, and the wealthy. She has also written a memoir of Canadian artist Harold Town, and a biography of artist, filmmaker, and impassioned feminist, Joyce Wieland. This book pays tribute to 14 women who donated millions of dollars to causes close to their hearts. Iris Nowell is the author of five books. Writin... |
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108,37 zł |
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Faith-Based Organizations: Current Issues
ISBN: 9781590337080 / Angielski / Miękka / 101 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although enacted into law in four previous statutes, charitable choice has been the subject of persistent controversy; and President Bush's initiative in the 107th Congress led the controversy to become highly visible. The primary concerns have been the constitutionality and desirability of the federal government directly subsidising faith-based social service programs and whether subsidised religious organisations should be able to discriminate on religious grounds in their employment practices. This new book provides background and analysis on a number of the salient factual and legal...
Although enacted into law in four previous statutes, charitable choice has been the subject of persistent controversy; and President Bush's initiative...
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150,37 zł |
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Boomer Volunteer Engagement: Collaborate Today, Thrive Tomorrow
ISBN: 9781434385901 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,36 zł |
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Achieving Effective Results Through Strategic Plan: The Case of African Rescue Committee
ISBN: 9781434394323 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Setting strategic plan for charitable organisations is very difficult to model and very complicated to convince donors to assist those poor societies through unknown charitable organisations in the remote areas of Africa. The research question the thesis explored was if African Rescue Committee(AFREC) could achieve effective results through strategic plan. This book proved the assumption that AFREC would have been sustainable by doing effectives results based on its strategic plan, if the plan had been endorsed by all its stakeholders. The basic underlying paradigm in the assumption was the...
Setting strategic plan for charitable organisations is very difficult to model and very complicated to convince donors to assist those poor societies ...
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154,81 zł |
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The Limits of Voluntarism
ISBN: 9780521889575 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Depression and the New Deal forced charities into a new relationship with public welfare. After opposing public relief for a generation, charities embraced it in the 1930s as a means to save a crippled voluntary sector from collapse. Welfare was to be delivered by public institutions, which allowed charities to offer and promote specialized therapeutic services such as marriage counseling a popular commodity in postwar America. But as Andrew Morris shows, these new alignments were never entirely stable. In the 1950s, charities ambiguous relationship with welfare drove them to aid in...
The Depression and the New Deal forced charities into a new relationship with public welfare. After opposing public relief for a generation, charities...
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448,56 zł |
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Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World
ISBN: 9780099509592 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Takes a look at how each of us can change the world. This title reveals the innovative efforts being made by companies and organizations - and by individuals - to solve problems and save lives both 'down the street and around the world'.
Takes a look at how each of us can change the world. This title reveals the innovative efforts being made by companies and organizations - and by indi...
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50,63 zł |
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Ngos and Post-Conflict Recovery: The Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency, Bougainville
ISBN: 9780731537457 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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149,98 zł |
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Developing User Involvement: Working Towards User-Centred Practice in Voluntary Organisations
ISBN: 9781861345370 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report is based on an action research project which involved service users, managers, staff and trustees. It identifies enablers of and barriers to increased user involvement. It also describes emerging approaches and important themes. It will help practitioners, managers and trustees plot their own journeys towards increased user involvement.The report: proposes 'user-centred user involvement', distinguishing it from 'management-centred user involvement', as a tool for analysing whose interests are served; vbTab]highlights critical factors that enable change, such as: leadership style,...
This report is based on an action research project which involved service users, managers, staff and trustees. It identifies enablers of and barriers ...
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201,58 zł |
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Josiah Royce in Focus
ISBN: 9780253219596 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new approach to Josiah Royce shows one of American philosophy's brightest minds in action for today's readers. Although Royce was one of the towering figures of American pragmatism, his thought is often considered in the wake of his more famous peers. Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley brings fresh perspective to Royce's ideas and clarifies his individual philosophical vision. Kegley foregrounds Royce's concern with contemporary public issues and ethics, focusing in particular on how he addresses long-standing problems such as race, religion, community, the dangers of mass media, mass culture,... This new approach to Josiah Royce shows one of American philosophy's brightest minds in action for today's readers. Although Royce was one of the t... |
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82,94 zł |
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The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China
ISBN: 9780520253636 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that transcended family, class, and religious boundaries. Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries, Joanna Handlin Smith abandons the facile explanation that charity was a response to poverty and social unrest and examines the social and economic changes that stimulated the fervor for doing good. With an eye for telling details and a finesse in weaving the voices of her subjects into her narrative, Smith brings to life the hard choices...
An unprecedented passion for saving lives swept through late Ming society, giving rise to charitable institutions that transcended family, class, and ...
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387,66 zł |
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Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World
ISBN: 9781401323400 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "With open hearts and open hands, we gave what we could, and a little became a lot." --from Give a Little Dimes destroyed polio. Five bucks can beat malaria. Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World not only contains remarkable, inspiring stories of how small donations are making an extraordinary difference in the lives of millions both here in the United States and around the world, but also lays out where and how to start giving . . . today. Together, ordinary Americans have far more transformational power than any government or...
"With open hearts and open hands, we gave what we could, and a little became a lot." --from Give a Little Dimes destroyed polio. Fi...
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95,36 zł |
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Do Your Giving While You Are Living: Inspirational Lessons on What You Can Do Today to Make a Difference Tomorrow
ISBN: 9781600374524 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do Your Giving While You Are Living is an illuminating little book with a very big--and very timely--message. It inspires readers to embrace giving and to understand that the highest purpose in life is quite simple: doing for others. Featuring contributions from some of the most influential and philanthropic people and organizations in the world today, this book shows readers how the act of giving can change the world and also change their own lives in ways they never thought possible.
Do Your Giving While You Are Living offers food for thought in bite-sized bits. Each entry includes a... Do Your Giving While You Are Living is an illuminating little book with a very big--and very timely--message. It inspires readers to embrace giving an...
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64,83 zł |
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Charitable Choices: Philanthropic Decisions of Donors in the American Jewish Community
ISBN: 9780739109878 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the incentives and barriers to charitable behavior, Dashefsky and Lazerwitz account for such giving by members of the Jewish community. A discussion of motivations for charitable giving, Charitable Choices relies on quantitative and qualitative data in one religio-ethnic community.
Examining the incentives and barriers to charitable behavior, Dashefsky and Lazerwitz account for such giving by members of the Jewish community. A di...
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507,78 zł |
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Philanthropy: Voluntary Action for the Public Good
ISBN: 9780028964904 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Product information not available.
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376,64 zł |
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The History of Care: A Personal Account
ISBN: 9780275932312 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a highly personal, detailed, and richly anecdotal history of the organization known worldwide as CARE. The author, who is a founding member of CARE and was active in its development, also served as the organization's President and Treasurer. Now President Emeritus, he is in a unique position to provide an intimate look at the events that transformed CARE from a food package service to Europe following World War II into an international series of organizations interested in relief, school lunch programs and nutritional education, refugee assistance, and development... This book offers a highly personal, detailed, and richly anecdotal history of the organization known worldwide as CARE. The author, who is a foundi... |
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382,20 zł |
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