Doing Good Without Giving Up: Sustaining Social Action in a World That's Hard to Change
ISBN: 9780830836796 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year (Social Justice) "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." - Galatians 6:9 If you're working to make the world a better place, you might find yourself discouraged. Needs are overwhelming, resources are limited, opposition is real and progress is slow. How do we persevere when the novelty wears off and our enthusiasm runs out? We all want change in the world. But as C. S. Lewis put it, we don't get second things by placing them first; we get second things by keeping first things first....
12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year (Social Justice) "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we...
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Building Your Volunteer Team: A 30-Day Change Project for Youth Ministry
ISBN: 9780830841219 / Angielski / Miękka / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you find yourself again and again wondering what it would take to get some new volunteers onboard for your ministry? And yet does it seem that you are never able to focus your energy on recruitment? Maybe you find yourself saying things like: "It's just easier for me to do it myself." At one level, of course, this is true. Almost always, it is easier to "do it ourselves." We avoid the hassle of having to coordinate and communicate. We avoid having to follow up with people who drop the ball. Youth leaders Mark DeVries and Nate Stratman have heard dozens of reasons why leaders choose not to...
Do you find yourself again and again wondering what it would take to get some new volunteers onboard for your ministry? And yet does it seem that you ...
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we wait for you: voices from Romania
ISBN: 9781500503840 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty-eight Americans fired with anticipation, free flowing adrenaline and serious anxiety, ranging in age from twenty-three to eighty two, touched down from Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C., in Bucharest, Otopeni Airport on June 16, 2001. We had volunteered to become United States Peace Corps volunteers in Romania for a two-year commitment. Our frazzled group was immediately bused to the city of Ploiesti, Prahova County, in south central Romania for language and cross-cultural training. We would be "trainees" for ten weeks and become "volunteers" upon completion. Who is to know, after weeks...
Forty-eight Americans fired with anticipation, free flowing adrenaline and serious anxiety, ranging in age from twenty-three to eighty two, touched do...
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67,25 zł |
People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky
ISBN: 9780826520425 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a -prophet of power to the people, - someone who -has possibly antagonized more people . . . than any other living American.- People Power introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinsky's vision across the United States:
Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a -prophet of power to the people, - someone who -has possibly antagonized more people . ...
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People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky
ISBN: 9780826520418 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a -prophet of power to the people, - someone who -has possibly antagonized more people . . . than any other living American.- People Power introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinsky's vision across the United States:
Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a -prophet of power to the people, - someone who -has possibly antagonized more people . ...
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Botswana in Depth: A Peace Corps Publication
ISBN: 9781502347947 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Meeting in the Margins: An Invitation to Encounter Society's Invisible People
ISBN: 9781631528163 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Cynthia Trenshaw, recently widowed, moves to Berkeley, she thinks the reason she has transplanted herself is to earn her master's degree in theology. But when, step by unexpected step, she is drawn into the cultural borderlands where society's "invisible people" reside, she encounters dispossessed and demanding teachers not listed on any academic roster--and becomes immersed in a heady curriculum of helplessness and joy, wisdom and pain. A book that encourages readers to receive the generosity and reciprocity of the margins, Meeting in the Margins offers guidance for how we can...
When Cynthia Trenshaw, recently widowed, moves to Berkeley, she thinks the reason she has transplanted herself is to earn her master's degree in theol...
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Rebuilding Community After Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative
ISBN: 9781439911006 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Rebuilding Community after Katrina "chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University s City and Regional Planning department and ACORN Housing, an affiliate of what was the nation s largest low-income community organization. These unlikely allies came together to begin to rebuild devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. " " The editors and contributors to this volume allow participants voices to show how this partnership integrated careful, technical analysis with aggressive community outreach and organizing. With essays by... "Rebuilding Community after Katrina "chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University s City and Regional Planning de... |
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The Voluntary Sector and Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9781137370662 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses. This collection brings together leading experts to provide critical reflections and cutting edge research on the contemporary features of voluntary sector work in criminal justice.
The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims...
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The Course Reflection Project: Faculty Reflections on Teaching Service-Learning
ISBN: 9781681230108 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Service-learning is entering a post-initiatory phase. At tertiary institutions of all types and sizes, service-learning programs are common and service-learning requirements for graduation are growing in popularity. Taken together -- alongside continued faculty interest in effective teaching -- these factors have raised the visibility and popularity of service-learning. Now the greater need in service-learning is not to prove the need for, or efficacy of, service-learning, but to turn the focus squarely back on practice. Following established best practice is not enough; instructors also need...
Service-learning is entering a post-initiatory phase. At tertiary institutions of all types and sizes, service-learning programs are common and servic...
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The Course Reflection Project: Faculty Reflections on Teaching Service-Learning (HC)
ISBN: 9781681230115 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Service-learning is entering a post-initiatory phase. At tertiary institutions of all types and sizes, service-learning programs are common and service-learning requirements for graduation are growing in popularity. Taken together -- alongside continued faculty interest in effective teaching -- these factors have raised the visibility and popularity of service-learning. Now the greater need in service-learning is not to prove the need for, or efficacy of, service-learning, but to turn the focus squarely back on practice. Following established best practice is not enough; instructors also need...
Service-learning is entering a post-initiatory phase. At tertiary institutions of all types and sizes, service-learning programs are common and servic...
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Teaching Civic Engagement
ISBN: 9780190250508 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teaching Civic Engagement explores the significance of religious studies in fostering a vibrant, just, and democratic civic order. In the first section of the book, contributors detail this theoretical model and offer an initial application to the sources and methods that already define much teaching in the disciplines of religious studies and theology. A second section offers chapters focused on specific strategies for teaching civic...
Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teach...
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Nurturing Sanctuary: Community Capacity Building in African American Churches
ISBN: 9781433125973 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are predominantly African American churches meeting the needs of young people? What resources of, and tensions in, faith leadership are shaping answers to this and other related questions? Nurturing Sanctuary analyzes ways in which the two most vital institutions of the Black experience - families and churches - are working with schools and health providers to respond to contemporary challenges and improve the twenty-first century life chances of African Americans and others. Data were generated from a four-year collaboration of eighteen churches, public health professionals,...
How are predominantly African American churches meeting the needs of young people? What resources of, and tensions in, faith leadership are shaping an...
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309,18 zł |
Nurturing Sanctuary: Community Capacity Building in African American Churches
ISBN: 9781433125980 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are predominantly African American churches meeting the needs of young people? What resources of, and tensions in, faith leadership are shaping answers to this and other related questions? Nurturing Sanctuary analyzes ways in which the two most vital institutions of the Black experience families and churches are working with schools and health providers to respond to contemporary challenges and improve the twenty-first century life chances of African Americans and others. Data were generated from a four-year collaboration of eighteen churches, public health professionals, service...
How are predominantly African American churches meeting the needs of young people? What resources of, and tensions in, faith leadership are shaping an...
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Divine Merger: What Happens When Jesus Collides with Your Community
ISBN: 9780830844524 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What would happen if your community had a head-on collision with Jesus? Pastor and community leader Mark Strong says, "You would have exactly what God wants: a divine merger " He continues: "A divine merger is when the church intentionally integrates with its community. . . . The result is a kingdom transformation." This book is designed to give you the vision and tools you need to fulfill your own God-given mission in your community and church. Ranging from single-person sponsored ministries to church-wide and even multi-church regional ministries, these pages are packed full of ideas. The...
What would happen if your community had a head-on collision with Jesus? Pastor and community leader Mark Strong says, "You would have exactly what God...
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Animal Shelter Heroes: How To Make A Difference In Your Own Community
ISBN: 9780986404238 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you found yourself wanting to help your local animal shelter by raising adoption rates or improving the level of care the animals receive, but could never figure out where to start or what you should do to make the most impact? Working to bring about a noticeable change in policies, especially if your initial goals are very ambitious, is never easy, but when a determined group of people get together, they can make history. This book was written to help you make a difference in your own community. You will get a good overview of the past, present, and potential future of animal... Have you found yourself wanting to help your local animal shelter by raising adoption rates or improving the level of care the animals receive, but... |
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Leisure and the Motive to Volunteer: Theories of Serious, Casual, and Project-Based Leisure
ISBN: 9781137585165 / Angielski / Twarda / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as "unpaid (productive) work." This economic definition has been around far longer than that of volunteering conceived of as leisure, which is discussed as the volitional definition. By means of a lengthy literature review, this book sets out the theoretical and empirical contributions of the serious leisure perspective to understanding volunteer motivation. This second approach began more than 40 years ago. It answers the key motivational question of why people...
Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as "unpaid (productive...
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Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa
ISBN: 9781847011398 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.
Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in ...
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127,38 zł |
Volunteer Economies: The Politics and Ethics of Voluntary Labour in Africa
ISBN: 9781847011404 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.
Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in ...
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Slow Kingdom Coming – Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly in the World
ISBN: 9780830844555 / Angielski / Miękka / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one said pursuing justice would be easy. The road can be so challenging and the destination so distant that you may be discouraged by a lack of progress, compassion or commitment in your quest for justice. How do you stay committed to the journey when God's kingdom can seem so slow in coming? Kent Annan understands the struggle of working for justice over the long haul. He confesses, "Over the past twenty years, I've succumbed to various failed shortcuts instead of living the freedom of faithful practices." In this book, he shares practices he has learned that will encourage and help you...
No one said pursuing justice would be easy. The road can be so challenging and the destination so distant that you may be discouraged by a lack of pro...
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75,06 zł |