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Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (384 pages)
Language
English
Description
VolunteerMatch taps expert knowledge from today's volunteerism professionals to help nonprofits take a more inventive approach to volunteer engagement Volunteer Engagement 2.0: Ideas and Insights Changing the World shows you many of the innovative approaches to engaging volunteers that are reshaping nonprofits, volunteer programs, and communities around the world - and how you can bring these changes to your own organization. Curated and edited by...
Author
Language
English
Description
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, “regardless of income, available time, age, and skills,”...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Fourth edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource illustrations (black and white)
Language
English
Description
There are no easy solutions to the complexities faced by nonprofit leaders and managers. This textbook addresses the governance, leadership, and management functions of the thousands of organizations in the nonprofit sector that provide an enormous range of services. This thoroughly revised fourth edition of Understanding Nonprofit Organizations does not simply recount and summarize seminal literature; it presents 22 of the most important and informative...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
287 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Travelers are showing a huge interest in the fast-growing sector known as experiential tourism--vacations that encompass heritage, culture, nature, ecology, and soft adventure. In the footsteps of the briskly selling The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life featuring North American destinations, our new title extends these ardent travelers' sights to global scale. From helping to build a health clinic in Tanzania to learning massage in Thailand...
Author
Series
Cowboys of Decker Ranch volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An injured rodeo performer decides to use his disability to teach young foster children his roping skills. He meets a social worker at the home where the foster children live, and hopes she doesn't return to her inner-city work in Denver, as he's falling quickly in love.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers all help one another to build a better world for themselves and their community"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
English
Formats
Description
"April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When they decide to help the new animal shelter with their own talents, Mae raises money to buy cat food with a lemonade stand and April writes a letter to the newspaper to encourage adoption"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First PublicAffairs edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A social entrepreneur explains how an act of shared national service would greatly benefit the United States, sharing his own experience building national service organizations and offering advice on organizing people and resources for a purpose.
Author
Series
Madeline Finn volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Madeline Finn adopts a puppy, she learns about her local animal shelter and organizes donations and volunteers to improve the lives of the animals there --
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