Volunteer Work category: 192 books
by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
An introductory guidance to having a Volunteering handbook. The following pages in this eBook serve as a guide model to use and should users can add, alter, or amend to mould into the organisation’s structure so as to be mutually suited for the organisation and volunteers.
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Be the Change!
Change the World. Change Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Be the Change celebrates the personal transformations of men and women who, by working to change the world, changed themselves. Featuring interviews with over 1,000 volunteers, from everyday people to business and community leaders to celebrities, the book combines hands-on advice on ways to get involved...
TIME Mother Teresa
The Life and Works of a Modern Saint
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The inspiring story of Calcutta's saint
Twenty years after her death, Mother Teresa continues to inspire people around the world. TIME proudly presents this Special Edition, Mother Teresa: The Life and Works of a Modern Saint, with introduction by Rick Warren addressing her giving spirit and...
The Care & Feeding of Volunteers
Recruiting, Retaining & Rewarding Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The Care & Feeding of Volunteers has evolved from a series of successful seminars attended by thousands of people across the United States and into Europe. In these sessions Bill has presented unorthodox ways of working with volunteers. They have attempted to change the paradigm of how America thinks...
Imtiaz Sooliman and the Gift of the Givers
A Mercy to All
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Imtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a message that would dramatically change the lives of countless people.‘To my absolute astonishment he told me I would help people for the rest of my life....
Once Upon a Town
The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In search of "the best America there ever was," bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today—a town where Greene discovers the echoes of the most touching love story imaginable: a love story between a country and its sons.
During...
by Darla Sue Dollman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Ranked among the top ten states for both disasters and dry climate, Colorado has a long history of extreme weather. On May 19, 1864, residents of the fledgling gold rush town of Denver awoke to a wall of water slamming into the city with enough force to flatten buildings and rip clothing from its...
Unlikely Brothers
Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
“You don’t look like brothers . . .”
Peace activist and cofounder of the Enough Project, John Prendergast is known as a champion of human rights in Africa.
But the not-so-public face of J.P. is the life he’s led as a Big Brother to Michael Mattocks. As a curious, driven, and...
Playbook for Progressives
16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
An organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century, Playbook for Progressives is a must-have for the activist’s tool kit. This comprehensive guide articulates pragmatically what is required in the often mystifying and rarely explained on-the-ground practice of organizing. Here, Eric Mann distills...
When the World Calls
The Inside Story of the Peace COrps and Its First Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
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'...
People Power
The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
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...
ServiceLearning in Literacy Education
Possibilities for Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This edited collection will stand as the first volume that specifically describes servicelearning programs and courses designed as part of teacher education programs in the fields of literacy education, secondary English education, elementary language arts education, and related fields. The contributing...
Who is Poverty?
A Collection of Pieces as Written by Wright State Reporters
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Approximately 1 in 5 residents in Montgomery County, Ohio are living in poverty according to Census statistics. This statistic is just one of the many reasons we have decided to tackle the poverty that is affecting so many in the Dayton area. Poverty can stem from a variety of reasons, such as mental...
by don Antonio Mazzi, Cristina Mazza, Elisa Frezza
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 17, 2015
C’è chi vive l’educazione sulla propria pelle, rifuggendo le strade consuete, i tecnicismi, i progetti asettici, l’illusione e la vanità di avere tutto sotto controllo e la verità in tasca. Sono educatori che si alzano e si mettono in cammino, in atteggiamento di ascolto e rispetto per la...