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Supply Chain Management for Humanitarians
Tools for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Supply Chain Management for Humanitarians provides an in-depth insight into the management of supply chains in the context of humanitarian logistics. This accessible and practical book considers humanitarian logistics from a strategic and operational perspective.
The overarching theme is collaboration...
Profit & Purpose
How Social Innovation Is Transforming Business for Good
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Why has Warby Parker been able to make such dramatic inroads against the behemoths in the long established eyeglass market? How has Method revolutionized the soap aisle? Amid the cacophony of online retailers, why has Etsy seen such explosive growth, with 2013 annual sales north of $1 billion?
These...
by Janice Simsohn Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Small foundations are using PRI loans and other investments to enhance the power of their grantmaking, build capacity, and leverage the impact of their assets. PRIs can be counted toward your foundation’s distribution requirement, and repaid funds are recycled for other PRIs or for grants. This...
Agent-Based Modeling in Humanitarian Interventions
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
When a nation or region of the world is under a state of distress and violence, international government agencies are tasked with the job of delivering aid to assist. Before intervening, however, it is imperative to examine the situation’s individual characteristics and risks. Agent-Based Modeling...
by Nancy Sakaduski
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Anyone who supervises volunteers will find this book an indispensable guide for navigating the intricacies of managing unpaid workers. Underlying the content is the message that volunteers are a vital part of an organization's workforce and should be treated as valuable members of the team. Volunteers...
Success Factor Modeling Volume III: Conscious Leadership and Resilience
Orchestrating Innovation and Fitness for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
We live in a challenging and ever changing world. As the rate of change accelerates, it brings with it increasing instability, uncertainty and risk. Creating a successful and sustainable venture under such conditions requires a high degree of conscious leadership, innovation and resilience. Robust...
Right Seat Right Table
An Outsider's Guide to Securing the Ideal Board Role
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
BOARDROOMS are experiencing major transformation and disruption as we transition into a world that demands greater transparency, digitalization and accountability. The old ways of doing business are becoming less relevant.
DIRECTORS now need different skills, a sense of purpose and capabilities...
Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction
Annual Report 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Annual Report 2014 is the 14th such report and covers the period 1 January–31 December 2014. It presents JFPR’s background and rationale, implementation progress, and achievements. Established in May 2000, JFPR provides direct grant assistance to the...
by Jason Penn
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
In my experiences, I far too often see small nonprofits play it safe and refuse to hire and pay appropriate wages to a development professional who can easily raise three to five times their total budget within their second year. What would you say if you give me $50, and at the end of the year, I...
Philanthropy in Practice
Pragmatism and the Impact of Philanthropic Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Philanthropic foundations are experiencing a crisis of professional identity. They attract considerable hopes due to an unusually high degree of independence and freedom of manoeuvre, which theoretically places them in a privileged position to find novel solutions to societies’ most severe and intractable...
Benefit Auctions
A Fresh Formula for Grassroots Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
In a climate in which community services funding is more and more scarce and the causes are getting more and more urgent, grassroots fundraising is the brightest light at the end of the tunnel. The easiest grassroots fundraiser is a benefit auction, and this book offers tried-and-true methods for...
Writing Off Ideas
Taxation, Philanthropy and America's Non-profit Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Tax-exempt foundations grew substantially in the twentieth century, both in their financial importance and in the scope of their activities. This challenging book examines the economic, cultural, and intellectual implications of tax-exempt organizations. How do various tax laws influence foundations...
ChangeMaker Pocket Guide
Passion, Energy, Values, & Vision
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Shelley Wood is on a mission to create a new generation of joyful ChangeMakers who can tackle the myriad challenges facing our world today. Distilling twenty years of observation and study, she offers a head start to the next generation of leaders who want to make the world a better, more awake, and...
by George Foster, Chris Mason, Mr John Meehan
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
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`Management for Social Enterprise is a great introduction to the rich variety of social enterprises in the UK. It is also a useful tool to help us to build more effective social enterprises that really deliver on their missions by people...