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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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136,19 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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698,90 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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163,49 zł |
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Volunteers
ISBN: 9781441595706 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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89,70 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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217,38 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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501,35 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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152,59 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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217,98 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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56,09 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 (dostawa przed świętami) |
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89,70 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 (dostawa przed świętami) |
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161,48 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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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108,94 zł |
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Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins: How Absolutely Anyone Can Pitch In, Help Out, Give Back, and Make the World a Be Tter Place
ISBN: 9780452297388 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The director of one of the largest grassroots volunteer programs in the country shows how everyone can give back.
Just in time for the season of giving, Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins will change how Americans give back to their communities. Once a self-proclaimed -reluctant volunteer--too busy and unmotivated- David Levinson is now director of the largest regional volunteer network, Big Sunday, with an army of fifty thousand volunteers across California. Speaking to the reluctant volunteer in everyone, he boosts our -Volunteer IQ- with specific advice on how, where, and... The director of one of the largest grassroots volunteer programs in the country shows how everyone can give back.
Just in time for the sea... |
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102,56 zł |
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Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing
ISBN: 9780230105379 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change, Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subject to empower novices to think like an organizers.
Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public act...
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383,73 zł |
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Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World
ISBN: 9781419673405 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World, author Darius Graham celebrates more than a dozen men and women that have gone beyond making a difference-rather, they are the difference. A number of these individuals suffered hardships and overcame significant adversity to use their triumphs and successes to help others. Some followed a life-long passion, and still others became so frustrated with a problem or issue in their community that they were compelled to action. Despite the different paths they took, each took a dynamic approach...
In Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World, author Darius Graham celebrates more than a d...
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49,32 zł |
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Ponds of Kalambayi: A Peace Corps Memoir
ISBN: 9780762773664 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The hilarious and heart-wrenching memoir from a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire-with a new introduction
The hilarious and heart-wrenching memoir from a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire-with a new introduction
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72,44 zł |
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When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years
ISBN: 9780807050514 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A complete and revealing history of the Peace Corps--in time for its fiftieth anniversary
"When the World Calls" is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. Stanley Meisler's engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers' unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. A complete and revealing history of the Peace Corps--in time for its fiftieth anniversary
"When the World Calls" is the first complete and balance... |
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85,47 zł |
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Don't Just Count Your Hours, Make Your Hours Count: The Essential Guide to Volunteering & Community Service
ISBN: 9780615469225 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Students repeatedly ask the same questions about community service & service learning... How do I find an organization that fits my interests? My schedule? My transportation needs? How do I get in touch with someone at the organization to sign up? What do I need to know before my first visit? How do I log my hours and get them approved? What do I do if I find the service to be boring?" This guide was created to answer such questions. "Don't Just Count Your Hours, Make Your Hours Count" provides students with basic information about community service, service learning, and volunteering, so...
Students repeatedly ask the same questions about community service & service learning... How do I find an organization that fits my interests? My sche...
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44,82 zł |
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Angels and Quilt Pieces . . . Our Journey with a Katrina Family
ISBN: 9781419669903 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) September 2005, in the after-math of Hurricane Katrina, we had no idea that we were about to embark on an unexpected journey. As the days, weeks and months progressed, the Thornton family, from New Orleans, told us their extraordinary story in bits and pieces. Our journey over the following months has changed our lives forever. We are telling our story through our own eyes, what we saw, heard and witnessed. It will make you laugh and cry; it will make you angry and warm your heart. Come on this journey with us and experience the joys and the heartaches, as we learned how to help others in...
September 2005, in the after-math of Hurricane Katrina, we had no idea that we were about to embark on an unexpected journey. As the days, weeks and m...
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85,21 zł |
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Volunteering and Society in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780230367722 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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211,04 zł |
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