Volunteer Work category: 192 books
Creative Community Organizing
A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
A unique approach -- uses stories, lyrics, and poems to inspire and energize both new and experienced organizers Offers sage insights into aspects of community organizing not addressed by more conventional manuals Written by a veteran activist and musician with over forty-five years of experience...
by Quentin Wodon
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Rotary International is a nonprofit service organization with 1.2 million members worldwide in more than 35,000 clubs. The organization was founded by Paul Harris in Chicago in 1905. While clubs exist today in most countries of the world, the United States has the largest number of Rotarians and clubs,...
Called to Heal the Brokenhearted
Stories from Kairos Prison Ministry International
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
In this stirring book, William H. Barnwell tells the stories of prison inmates and the Kairos Prison Ministry volunteers who work with them. Set mostly at the huge Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Barnwell's narrative illustrates how offenders who have done the worst can and do change, becoming...
Social Entrepreneurship:What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more...
Confronting Injustice and Oppression
Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
More urgent than ever, David G. Gil's guiding text gives social workers the knowledge and confidence they need to change unjust realities. Clarifying the meaning, sources, and dynamics of injustice, exploitation, and oppression and certifying the place of the social worker in combating these conditions,...
Transition to Common Work
Building Community at The Working Centre
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Part 2: Community Engagement
Chapter 4 The Virtues
Joe Mancini and Stephanie Mancini
The Working Centre has integrated the virtues into its organizational philosophy because the sharing of goods and the building of cooperation is fundamental for relationships and friendship....
The Big Shift
Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” offers a recipe for how we can transform America's coming midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity. Millions of people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies...
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...
Towards Collective Liberation
Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Organized into four sections, this collection of essays is geared toward activists engaging with the dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change. These essays and interviews present powerful lessons for transformative organizing. It offers a firsthand...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Community groups and human service organizations are under a tremendous amount of pressure to strengthen their programs and measure the effectiveness of their work. These challenges have prompted many to seek consultation and technical assistance in order to better plan, develop, and evaluate their...
by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Is Fundraising part of God's Plan?
Christian fundraising creates opportunities to involve God's people in God's work.
How does this Christian Fundraising work?
A Taste of Heaven
First steps for Jubilee 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Flying over central Africa in 1994, Isabel Carter sensed God's anger at the huge injustice of Third World debt and was given a vision from God - that the year 2000 was the be a year of Jubilee in which the burdens of debt would be cancelled.
As she shared the vision and sought help from aid...
by William E Barton
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Like Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton was so much more than the "Angel of the Battlefield." It was not until the American Civil War that she found her calling. As a young woman, she struggled with the deep emotions that would be a lifelong trait. "1852: I have found it extremely hard to restrain...
Making Clubs Work
A practical guide to creating successful clubs, societies and other membership organisations
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
This book is the gold standard that others will be compared to – it’s the mark of a champion. Dive in and enjoy the read.’ Leon Taylor, British Olympic silver medallist in diving, author and professional speaker
Brad Parkes has been involved with membership organisations at the highest...