Volunteer Work category: 192 books
Continuity and change in voluntary action
Patterns, trends and understandings
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
There are great expectations of voluntary action in contemporary Britain but limited in-depth insight into the level, distribution and understanding of what constitutes voluntary activity.Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this book charts change and continuity...
Divine Merger
What Happens When Jesus Collides with Your Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
What would happen if your community had a head-on collision with Jesus? Pastor and community leader Mark Strong says, "You would have exactly what God wants: a divine merger!" He continues: "A divine merger is when the church intentionally integrates with its community. . . . The result...
Givol
One Woman's Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Her son introduces his mother''s life story which she has written as a fictional narrative as she relives traumatic experiences while writing about them. She traces her life from a sheltered childhood and girlhood in her disfunctional Italo-American Catholic family to her meeting a handsome young...
The Power and Limits of NGOs
A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Since the end of the Cold War, a virtual army of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from the United States, Britain, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe have flocked to Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. These NGOs are working on such diverse tasks as helping to establish competitive political...
Service
Ministry with Heart and Hands
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
This LifeGuide Study includes ten sessions exploring service in a variety of contexts: family, the physical creation, society, the city, neighbors, relationships, the church and the workplace. Looking inside ministry specifically, R. Paul Stevens examines examples of service that were motivated by...
by Richard Pais
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
For any social and economic development, adequate sanitation in conjunction with good hygiene and safe water are essential to good health. A lack of sanitation and hygiene contributes to arrange of health and environmental problems. The resulting sickness causes suffering, and loss of opportunities...
New Perspectives in Service Learning
Research to Advance the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
by Gloria Chuku
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2004
This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
(orginally published by Allyn & Bacon 1997) This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service. The book is...
From Passion to Objectivity
International and CrossDisciplinary Perspectives on ServiceLearning Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
This volume is the seventh in the Advances in ServiceLearning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at the Sixth International Servicelearning Research, hosted by Portland State University in Portland, Oregon in October 2006. The theme of the conference, which...
Research for What?
Making Engaged Scholarship Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Research on servicelearning and community engagement has exploded over the past decade. It is a field now characterized by increasing methodological and theoretical sophistication, vast quantitative and qualitative studies, interdisciplinary research, myriad subjects, and the internationalization of...
Understanding ServiceLearning and Community Engagement
Crossing Boundaries through Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
There is an increasing proliferation of servicelearning courses in colleges and universities in the U.S. and internationally, and research in the field has seen significant growth in diverse geographic areas in the past decade. Membership organizations now exist to convene scholars and practitioners...
Advancing Knowledge in ServiceLearning
Research to Transform the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The purpose of this series of books is to advance the knowledge in the servicelearning research field. More importantly, this research is to be used to transform the field. This transformation will come from realizing both the history of servicelearning and trying to imagine what the future may look...
Called To Serve
11 Outstanding Filipino Role Models
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Called to Serve started out as a master’s thesis of one of the authors, Raquel “Ira” Lucas. Written to inspire, this book shares the experiences of eleven Filipinos who dedicate their lives to helping others through volunteerism, charity, leadership and innovation.