Volunteer Work category: 192 books
Serving Productive Time
Stories, Poems, and Tips to Inspire Positive Change from Inmates, Prison Staff, and Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul—a program that develops positive change for inmates and their loved ones
With their books Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul, Tom and Laura Lagana have shown readers how to make positive...
Attract the Best Volunteers
Stop Recruiting and Start Attracting
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Membership is critical for all non-profits. These new volunteers must include a mix of younger, middle aged and older members. The key thought in this book is to change from recruiting to attracting. This is a book about volunteers and change. While the current excitement is finding young people to bring...
The Door is Open
Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)
Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize
Long listed for CBC Canada Reads 2015
The Door Is Open is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in...
In a Rocket Made of Ice
Among the Children of Wat Opot
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman’s volunteer experiences at an orphanage in rural Cambodia—a book that embodies the belief that love, compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of obstacles.
Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life...
Behind the Smiles
An African Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
While tourists see the beauty of Kenya, volunteers and medical health professionals often only see the poverty. With half of the countrys forty-three million people living below the poverty line and unable to meet their daily nutritional requirementsnot to mention not having reliable access to healthcare...
by Sally Warner
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Sally spent five years over a ten year period volunteering in Mother Teresa’s homes especially in India. She met and chatted with hundreds of volunteers, locals, nuns and inmates. Now that adoptions from Mother’s homes have been stopped, 13 homes have been shut down yet Mother Teresa will become...
Behind the Smiles
An African Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
While tourists see the beauty of Kenya, volunteers and medical health professionals often only see the poverty. With half of the countrys forty-three million people living below the poverty line and unable to meet their daily nutritional requirementsnot to mention not having reliable access to health...
Is Giving Worth It?
Find out the Answers from Volunteers Who Give Their Time, Talent, Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHETHER IT IS ACTUALLY WORTH IT TO GIVE? Have you ever been asked to volunteer your time or donate money, and then wondered if it’s really worth it? Perhaps a person you know at a school, temple, social welfare home or environmental group called to ask if you could help out,...
by Beth R. Crisp
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Faith-based organizations continue to play a significant role in the provision of social work services in many countries but their role within the welfare state is often contested. This text explores their various roles and relationships to social work practice, includes examples from different countries...
by Dick Bathrick
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
We Are The Work is about how Men Stopping Violence (MSV), a small, social justice nonprofit, got to do big things, about the intriguing characters that formed and were informed by MSVs mission, about how men and women learned to work in solidarity to address mens violence against women (VAW), about...
by Charlotte Weeks, Edited by Jason Alba
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Most people agree that jobs fall into two categories-those in which you work to make the world a better place and those in which you make money. There is a widespread belief that the two are mutually exclusive; you can have one or the other...but not both.Charlotte Weeks shows you that this is only a...
by Flavia Ribeiro de Castro
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
With a gentle, thoughtful narrative driven by an intense rhythm, the author immerses the reader in her story from the very first chapter. As she relates the pains and pleasures of her work within the cold jail environment, she seems able to make us feel exactly what she wants: she makes us laugh,...
by Philippa Tomczak
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Winner of the 2017 British Society of Criminology Book Prize
The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical than ever before. In recent years in England and Wales, the sector has featured significantly in both policy rhetoric and academic commentary....
Latino Small Businesses and the American Dream
Community Social Work Practice and Economic and Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities. They are also excellent facilitators of community capacity—a major component of effective social work practice. Social work practitioners have a vested interest in seeing such businesses grow, not only among...