Philanthropy category: 319 books
All Hands
The Evolution of a Volunteer-Powered Disaster Response Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
David Campbell's personal and professional life changed course in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004. A chance remark to a friend about the tragedy led his companion to reveal that he had dined, just a week prior to the tsunami, on a hotel patio where everyone had been killed....
Measuring and Improving Social Impacts
A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The world is beset with enormous problems. And as a nonprofit, NGO, foundation, impact investor, or socially responsible company, your organization is on a mission to solve them. But what exactly should you do? And how will you know whether it’s working? Too many people assume that good intentions...
Money for the Cause
A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
There has never been a greater need for raising the funds necessary to promote the causes that will help build a sustainable future. In Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising, veteran nonprofit executive director Rudolph A. Rosen lays out field-tested approaches that have been...
Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas
The Duke Endowment, 1924–1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1998
Like the majority of the founders of large philanthropic foundations in the United States, James B. Duke assumed that the Duke Endowment, which he established in 1924, would continue its charitable activity forever. Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas is an examination of the history of this foundation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1998
"It is a delight to seen an anthology on nonprofit history done so well."—Barry Karl, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"This is a volume that everyone concerned about nonprofits—scholar, practitioner, and citizen—will find useful and illuminating."—Peter...
by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This fifth edition update also provides for more details examples, illustrations, and hundreds of URL hyperlinks to resources and points of contact saving hours/days of onerous work and research to discover on the web. Invaluable contextual material for inspiring ideas and positive way to deal with the whole issue of fundraising in this climate and good value for the price.
Footprints in Aggieland
Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The “dean” of development officers in Texas, if not the entire nation, Bob Walker has been instrumental in raising hundreds of millions of dollars for Texas A&M University, including many of the largest gifts in the university’s history. He provides through this book many instructive and sometimes...
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by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
These Guidance Notes and Standard Forms of Agreement between a Fundraising Consultant or a Professional Fundraiser and a Charity have been produced to help safeguard the interests of both parties and to comply with the Charities Act and the Charitable Institutions (Fundraising) Regulations.
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by Jon Krakauer
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Greg Mortenson, the bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea, is a man who has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, and he’s been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. But, as Jon Krakauer demonstrates in this extensively researched and penetrating book,...
Otto Kahn
Art, Money, and Modern Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name. A partner at one of America's premier private banks,...
Anarchists in the Boardroom
How social media and social movements can help your organisation to be more like people
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Change how we organise. Change the world.
There are lessons emerging all around us, in the new social movements that have swept the globe, and in the organising patterns found on social media.
Could Twitter and Occupy help our NGOs, charities, trade unions and voluntary organisations...
Charity Detox
What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The veteran urban activist and author of the revolutionary Toxic Charity returns with a headline-making book that offers proven, results-oriented ideas for transforming our system of giving.
In Toxic Charity, Robert D. Lupton revealed the truth about modern charity programs meant to help the...
Theirs Is the Kingdom
Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
"A gripping discovery of God's grace where we least expect to find it—in the decaying core of the city." —Ronald A. Nikkel, president, Prison Fellowship International
"The story of Lupton's ministry is one of the most inspiring in America. Those of us who are trying to accomplish...
Homeless in the City Ii
A Mission of Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Jeremy Reynalds is an iconoclast who has combined a genuine passion for the hungry, homeless, abused, and addicted with a creative ministry model in New Mexico. His books give a face to what is often a faceless problem in today's society. This chronicle of his conversion, calling, and creation of...