Philanthropy Charity category: 319 books
by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This fifth edition update also provides for more details examples, illustrations, and hundreds of URL hyperlinks to resources and points of contact saving hours/days of onerous work and research to discover on the web. Invaluable contextual material for inspiring ideas and positive way to deal with the whole issue of fundraising in this climate and good value for the price.
Footprints in Aggieland
Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The “dean” of development officers in Texas, if not the entire nation, Bob Walker has been instrumental in raising hundreds of millions of dollars for Texas A&M University, including many of the largest gifts in the university’s history. He provides through this book many instructive and sometimes...
Otto Kahn
Art, Money, and Modern Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name. A partner at one of America's premier private banks,...
Anarchists in the Boardroom
How social media and social movements can help your organisation to be more like people
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Change how we organise. Change the world.
There are lessons emerging all around us, in the new social movements that have swept the globe, and in the organising patterns found on social media.
Could Twitter and Occupy help our NGOs, charities, trade unions and voluntary organisations...
Theirs Is the Kingdom
Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
"A gripping discovery of God's grace where we least expect to find it—in the decaying core of the city." —Ronald A. Nikkel, president, Prison Fellowship International
"The story of Lupton's ministry is one of the most inspiring in America. Those of us who are trying to accomplish...
Homeless in the City Ii
A Mission of Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Jeremy Reynalds is an iconoclast who has combined a genuine passion for the hungry, homeless, abused, and addicted with a creative ministry model in New Mexico. His books give a face to what is often a faceless problem in today's society. This chronicle of his conversion, calling, and creation of...
Loving Our Neighbor
A Thoughtful Approach to Helping People in Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Loving Our Neighbor provides practical advice for churches, businesses, civic organizations, school groups, and individuals who need seasoned guidance in making wise and compassionate decisions when approached for financial donations.
Beth Templeton is a minister who clearly understands both...
Positively M. A. D.
Making a Difference in Your Organizations, Communities, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2004
Featuring contributions by more than 50 of Berrett-Koehler's most renowned authors, Positively M.A.D. is a collection of stories about real people making real changes, large and small, in their organizations and communities. The founder of an adoption agency specialzing in placing "unadoptable"...
However Long the Night
Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In However Long the Night, Aimee Molloy tells the unlikely and inspiring story of Molly Melching, an American woman whose experience as an exchange student in Senegal led her to found Tostan and dedicate almost four decades of her life to the girls and women of Africa.
This moving biography...
A Mighty Purpose
How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The inspiring story of how the iconoclastic humanitarian Jim Grant succeeded in saving the lives of tens of millions of children through his extraordinary ability to win over world leaders
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Nicholas Kristof hailed Jim Grant as a man who “probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler,...
The Social Contract
or, Principles of Political Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights (French: Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face...
by Bob Maddams
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Lights, Camera Jemuru – Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia is the remarkable true-life story of a high-flying adman who swapped his expense account lifestyle in London to go and teach in a back-street community film school, Gem TV, in Addis Ababa. Bob Maddams spent ten years living and working...
Genuine Dialogue and Real Partnership
Foundations of True Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Building Genuine Community emphasizes a notion of a community in which people are bound together by a common life situation and a common purpose without using that common purpose as an exclusionary factor that distinguishes between those who belong and those who do not belong to the community. Without...
by Mark Helyar
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Rising from the Dust ~ India's Hidden VoicesNew, updated edition.Quitting his job and selling his house, Mark travels to India. He lands in Delhi, belted, braced and prepared for all eventualities. Or so he thinks. Though he craves the ultimate travel adventure, a load of western...