Philanthropy Charity category: 319 books
The Everything Fundraising Book
Create a Strategy, Plan Events, Increase Visibility, and Raise the Money You Need
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
The Everything Fundraising Book makes fundraising easy with step-by-step instruction and advice from the experts. Whether you are a community volunteer or a professional fundraiser, this clear and practical guide shows you exactly how to set goals, create a plan, and tap into a financial goldmine...
Not for Sale
The Return of the Global Slave Trade--and How We Can Fight It
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Human trafficking is not an issue of the left or right, blue states or red states, but a great moral tragedy we can unite to stop . . . Not for Sale is a must-read to see how you can join the fight.” —Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics
“David Batstone is a heroic character.” —Bono
In...
Age of Icons
Exploring Philanthrocapitalism in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Celebrities are increasingly front and centre in public debates on everything from solving world poverty to halting genocide, confronting obesity, and finding spiritual contentment. Bono, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Bob Geldof, Oprah, Madonna, and Angelina Jolie are just some of the entertainers, politicians,...
The Most Good You Can Do
How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Peter Singer’s books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effective altruism is built upon the simple but profoundly...
El corazón americano
Ni el Estado, ni el mercado: la opción filantrópica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Análisis económico de los casos de filantropía (donación de tiempo y dinero) en EE.UU.; qué hace la sociedad civil que no hacen ni el Estado ni el mercado por la educación, la pobreza, la discriminación, la reincidencia, la drogadicción, los sin techo, hasta la ecología, las catástrofes...
by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
A voluntary Management Committee can be of various sizes. It needs to have enough members to be representative and perform the necessary tasks but not so large that it becomes unwieldy. The number of members of the Management Committee partly depends on the size of the organisation but generally...
by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Guidance and key pointers on writing a voluntary sector grant-aid application - things to consider and include from both an organisation applicant and potential grant-aid funder perspective be they a Trust, Foundation, Statutory, or Private Sector.
This e-book also gives help in how to mail...
The Goldilocks Challenge
Right-Fit Evidence for the Social Sector
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The social sector provides services to a wide range of people throughout the world with the aim of creating social value. While doing good is great, doing it well is even better. These organizations, whether nonprofit, for-profit, or public, increasingly need to demonstrate that their efforts are...
by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
The Internet can provide generous donors with a wide range of opportunities to help others quickly and easily.
To help ensure that your gift does not go to the wrong organisation and to help ensure that your gift goes directly to the organisation you want to support, here are 10 tips...
by Christine Fernyhough, Louise Callan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A new life running a high country sheep station in New Zealand. Christine Fernyhough is well known as a leading Auckland philanthropist, having set up Books in Homes and then the Gifted Kids Programme for high achieving children in low decile schools. In 2003 she was a recent widow when she spied...
by Dr. Joji Valli
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
No one is a born philosopher or everyone is born as a philosopher. We can look at it either way. Most of us use the philosophy or the so called reasoning mind for finding happiness of the self and come out with a selfishness philosophy to boost the ego and its gimmicks. For them, I guess the philosophy...
Everyday Ambassador
Make a Difference by Connecting in a Disconnected World
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In Everyday Ambassador Kate Otto brings people together even as our digital networks pull us further apart.
In a world of limitless technology, we are more connected than ever before but our hyper-connected lifestyles threaten our ability to know ourselves and interact with each other. By focusing...
From Slave Girls to Salvation
Gender, Race, and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Students and scholars of women’s and gender studies; Chinese, Japanese, and Asian Canadian history; BC studies; migration; and critical race studies will want this book on their shelf, along with anyone interested in the history of the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who Knows Tomorrow
A Memoir of Finding Family among the Lost Children of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Born in Spain and raised by a struggling single mother, Lisa Lovatt-Smith became an editor at British Vogue at nineteen, the youngest in Condé Nast history. She helped launch Spanish Vogue and partied across Europe with celebrities, fashion designers, photographers, and supermodels.
By her...