Lester M : 29 books
Explaining Civil Society Development
A Social Origins Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The civil society sector—made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize—has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the...
The Resilient Sector Revisited
The New Challenge to Nonprofit America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial.
Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions...
by Lester M Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Today, America's nonprofit organizations seem caught in a force field, buffeted by four impulses-voluntarism, professionalism, civic activism, and commercialism. Too little attention, however, has been paid to the significant tensions among these impulses. Understanding this force field and the factors...
Il progetto Philanthropication thru Privatization
Come creare patrimoni filantropici per il bene comune
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Con la diminuzione delle risorse e delle possibilità di spesa dei governi e con l’aumento dei problemi di degrado sociale e ambientale, è sempre più urgente indirizzare nuove risorse per contrastare le sfide che minacciano il pianeta. Una soluzione promettente è l’utilizzo di tutti o parte dei...
Leverage for Good
An Introduction to the New Frontiers of Philanthropy and Social Investment
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health, and environmental degradation ballooning daily, new models for financing social and environmental objectives are urgently needed. Fortunately, a revolution is...
by Charles Dickens, Lester M. Schulman
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Oliver Twist is a desperate orphan. A gang of thieves takes him in and teaches him to steal, but then he is caught. What will become of poor Oliver Twist? Kids can find out in this easy-to-read chapter book adaptation of the Dickens classic.
by Lester M. Zinser
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Once upon a time . . . How else do you start a story on a white blank screen? Do you open the tale with some far-out statement that you, the author, have to maintain chapter by chapter? Or do you leave the writer some leeway to spin his or her story? Once upon a time gives the author that privilege....
Philanthropication thru Privatization
Building Permanent Endowments for the Common Good
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 2, 2014
With the resources and capabilities of governments barely growing or in decline around the world, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health and environmental degradation ballooning daily, it is increasingly clear that new efforts, and new financial resources, are urgently needed to address the world’s...
Space Science Fiction Super Pack
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
'Space Science Fiction' was launched in may of 1952. During it's impressive run it published many of Science Fiction's top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred-plus page anthology are all of the most important stories that were published during its distinguished run. Included here are:...
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., R. A. Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Worlds of If' was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. 'Worlds of If' discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the second in our 'Worlds of If' series, with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. '2BR02B'...
by Hoffmann, Joseph Pike, D. S. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Ampleforth College; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Bath and Wells; A Sketch-Book by D. S. Andrews Bristol; A Sketch-Book by Dorothy E.G. Woollard Bruges; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Cambridge; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Canterbury; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Cardiff; A Sketch-Book by Douglas...
Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales
The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, The Conquest of America, A Traveler in Time, The Guardians…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops Richard Jefferies: After London Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. Cox: The Guardians Philip F....
Pieces: A Mobile Writers Guild Anthology
Mobile Writers Guild Anthologies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Sweet Home Alabama.
Have a slice of Alabama Literature. This collection brings you over 20 authors from the Gulf Coast in Alabama, including USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORS Carolyn Haines and Craig A. Price Jr., Award Winning author Jodie Cain Smith and several others, including some first time...
Fantastic Stories Presents: Fantasy Super Pack #1
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present thirty-two wonderful tales of fantasy in this completely revised second edition text. More than seven hundred and fifty pages for your reading pleasure. Escape today! 'Immortal' by Shariann Lewitt; 'The Thing in the Attic' by James Blish;...