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The Citizen-Soldier; Or, Memoirs Of A Volunteer.
ISBN: 9781582187853 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "22. Arrived in Bellaire at 3P.M. There is trouble in the neighborhood of Grafton..." Thus begins the extraordinary journals of a modest, humble man. John Beatty (1848-1914) left his work and his home to join the Ohio volunteers in 1861. He began as most do, as a lowly private, but rose through the ranks to become a Brigadier General by 1862. Beatty faithfully recorded his daily life and experiences in what has become one of the best resources for exploring the day-to-day life of a Union soldier during the Civil War. This is so much more than just a recounting of military action. Beatty... "22. Arrived in Bellaire at 3P.M. There is trouble in the neighborhood of Grafton..." Thus begins the extraordinary journals of a modest, humble ma... |
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97,83 zł |
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Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780230210585 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make are at a new high. This book aims to meet this interest by bringing together in one volume what is known about the phenomenon of volunteering; the principles and practice of involving volunteers, and the enduring challenges for volunteering in today's world.
Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make are at a new high. This book aims to meet this interest by bringing together in one vol...
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195,87 zł |
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Volunteerism and World Development: Pathway to a New World
ISBN: 9780275932411 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Allen Jedlicka proposes a revolutionary new approach to the development problems faced by much of the world. Arguing that government controlled bureaucracies are not effective in addressing the social and economic concerns of developing nations and regions--because they are more concerned with organizational survival than with helping people--Jedlicka develops an alternative solution that relies on volunteer efforts. He asserts that, free of the corrupt influences that affect bureaucracies, volunteers are often more successful in directly helping their target audience because the... Allen Jedlicka proposes a revolutionary new approach to the development problems faced by much of the world. Arguing that government controlled bur... |
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304,34 zł |
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Community Volunteers in Japan: Everyday Stories of Social Change
ISBN: 9780415546065 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the Japanese media. This book, based on extensive original research, tells the stories of community volunteers who make social change through their everyday acts. It discusses their experiences in children's activities, the parent-teachers association, juvenile delinquency prevention campaigns, and care of the elderly. It explores their conflicts and their motivations, and argues that personal decisions to volunteer and acts of volunteering,...
Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in...
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231,25 zł |
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The Role and Status of International Humanitarian Volunteers and Organizations: The Right and Duty to Humanitarian Assistance
ISBN: 9780792311904 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its birth with the creation of the international Red Cross in 1863, international humanitarian assistance has developed considerably since World War II. In accordance with the Red Cross principle of humanity, it aims at preventing and alleviating human suffering wherever it may be found, protecting life and health and ensuring respect for the human being. International humanitarian assistance involves a complex network of government agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and individual volunteers: it has been labelled a non-system'. While governments and...
Since its birth with the creation of the international Red Cross in 1863, international humanitarian assistance has developed considerably since World...
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1107,90 zł |
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The Future of Service-Learning: New Solutions for Sustaining and Improving Practice
ISBN: 9781579223656 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a new generation of practitioners engages with service learning, at a time when higher education faces questions about learning outcomes and costs, and in the context of such issues as globalization and the environment, this book poses important questions about practice, institutional sustainability, and future directions. Among these are:
What counts as service learning? What value does it bring to institutions? Is it appropriate for all students? How is globalization impacting service learning? Divided into three thematic parts, this book successively covers... As a new generation of practitioners engages with service learning, at a time when higher education faces questions about learning outcomes and costs,...
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147,14 zł |
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Geeks on a Mission: In Their Own Words
ISBN: 9781457521744 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lucrative employment beckons, but they donate their summer vacations to work in developing nations around the world. They work as professional consultants, peers to the top executives in their client organizations, and, for these organizations, the work is critical. The clients receive top-notch professional assistance, and the students have an experience not available in any classroom. They are a new breed of young professional.
I was the same five-foot five-inch girl that arrived on June 5, barring a tan, a birthday, and maybe a few pounds. But I had grown. So tall.... Lucrative employment beckons, but they donate their summer vacations to work in developing nations around the world. They work as professional consult...
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92,93 zł |
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Serving Country and Community: Who Benefits from National Service?
ISBN: 9780674046788 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States has a long history of citizens rendering service to their communities. Examples of government-sponsored voluntary service organizations include the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Peace Corps, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). During the Clinton administration, the national service movement was advanced by the establishment of AmeriCorps, a large-scale national service program designed to place young people in community service positions across the country. More recently, the Obama administration has set in motion a major program expansion of AmeriCorps over... The United States has a long history of citizens rendering service to their communities. Examples of government-sponsored voluntary service organiz... |
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281,94 zł |
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Enhancing the Volunteer Experience: New Insights on Strengthening Volunteer Participation, Learning, and Commitment
ISBN: 9780470631294 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many organizations, recruiting and maintaining a core group of dedicated volunteers spells the difference between success and failure. But very little research has been done to find out what motivates people to volunteer, how to recruit volunteers, and how to nurture their dedication.
Enhancing the Volunteer Experience reveals, from the perspective of the volunteer, how management can foster - or impede - the growth of high-quality, long-lived volunteer programs, and how to ensure that volunteering remains a dynamic force that generates social change. Drawing on a four-year... For many organizations, recruiting and maintaining a core group of dedicated volunteers spells the difference between success and failure. But very li...
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138,29 zł |
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An Adventure in Service-Learning: Developing Knowledge, Values and Responsibility
ISBN: 9780566088940 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Service learning involves students using their classroom theory to help others through relevant volunteering work. Here, Anto Kerins provides the context to service learning and explains the theory behind the methodology.
Service learning involves students using their classroom theory to help others through relevant volunteering work. Here, Anto Kerins provides the cont...
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709,67 zł |
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Understanding Roots of Voluntary Action : Historical Perspectives on Current Social Policy
ISBN: 9781845194246 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current debate on the growing role of the voluntary and community or third sector in delivering public and social policy is impoverished by its lack of understanding of the historical events which have shaped the sector and its relationship with the state and this book draws on a range of empirical studies of aspects of the history of voluntary action to illuminate and inform this debate. Chapter contributions range across two centuries and a variety of fields of activity, geographical areas, and organizational forms. This book is essential reading for all practitioners involved in...
The current debate on the growing role of the voluntary and community or third sector in delivering public and social policy is impoverished by its la...
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166,01 zł |
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Volunteers
ISBN: 9781441595706 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,91 zł |
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Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain: Perspectives on Change and Choice
ISBN: 9780333793145 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text brings together contributions by British experts to examine the shifting relationship between welfare policy and the voluntary sector. Taking into account the fundamental reassessment of the role of the state in welfare and the funding and organization of the delivery of health care, social services, housing and so on, it asks what the implications are for voluntary sector organzations and in what specific ways they are responding to their new expanded role.
This text brings together contributions by British experts to examine the shifting relationship between welfare policy and the voluntary sector. Takin...
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220,73 zł |
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Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
ISBN: 9780231151665 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate access to primary care, nutritional improvement, and smoking cessation, and to broker innovative ways to access healthcare and other social services. This unlikely partnership and the relationships it forged reaffirms the wisdom of joining "town and gown" to improve a community's well-being. Staff members of participating organizations have coauthored this volume, which shares the successes,...
From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding comm...
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509,08 zł |
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Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
ISBN: 9780231151672 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate access to primary care, nutritional improvement, and smoking cessation, and to broker innovative ways to access healthcare and other social services. This unlikely partnership and the relationships it forged reaffirms the wisdom of joining "town and gown" to improve a community's well-being. Staff members of participating organizations have coauthored this volume, which shares the successes,...
From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding comm...
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154,94 zł |
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The Soul of Civil Society: Voluntary Associations and the Public Value of Moral Habits
ISBN: 9780739104248 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans care about the public value of moral habits. They like to see virtue rewarded and vice censured, appealing as this does to the nation's deep sense that one's success rests neither in money nor in power but in one's civility. In The Soul of Civil Society Don Eberly and Ryan Streeter look beyond such abstractions as the 'voluntary sector' and superficial communitarian solutions to civic anomie to identify the pivotal role played by local voluntary associations in a civil society. Not only important for the services they provide, these 'little platoons, ' as Edmund Burke labeled them,...
Americans care about the public value of moral habits. They like to see virtue rewarded and vice censured, appealing as this does to the nation's deep...
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221,34 zł |
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Good Guy Handbook: Comfort the Afflicted...Afflict the Comfortable
ISBN: 9781439272091 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Good Guy Handbook is about volunteerism. It begins as an invitation for the reader to become involved in some not for profit activity. It identifies numerous causes like feeding the needy, helping at-risk youth, protecting the environment, prison ministry, youth sports, etc. The book then describes what you can do individually or by hooking up with established organizations. The last section of the book gives specific ideas on how to improve a person's not for profit skills. Tips are given on public speaking, running a meeting, managing and motivating other volunteers and selecting the...
The Good Guy Handbook is about volunteerism. It begins as an invitation for the reader to become involved in some not for profit activity. It identifi...
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57,47 zł |
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How to Organize a Day of Giving in Your Community or a Community in Need
ISBN: 9781453539408 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,91 zł |
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How to organize a day of giving in your community or a community in need
ISBN: 9781453539415 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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165,45 zł |
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Change the World with Service Learning: How to Organize, Lead, and Assess Service-Learning Projects
ISBN: 9781607096962 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Change the World with Service Learning is written in a clear and easy-to-use style designed for the teacher integrating Service Learning into the curriculum. The book guides educators from all content areas and grade levels to create meaningful Service Learning projects with their students by providing a no-fluff, step-by-step, teacher-to-teacher description of how to create, plan, teach, and celebrate Service Learning which meets and exceeds local, district, and national curricular expectations. The tools presented in Change the World with Service Learning will lead to projects which can...
Change the World with Service Learning is written in a clear and easy-to-use style designed for the teacher integrating Service Learning into the curr...
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110,62 zł |
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