Philanthropy category: 319 books
Loving Our Neighbor
A Thoughtful Approach to Helping People in Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Loving Our Neighbor provides practical advice for churches, businesses, civic organizations, school groups, and individuals who need seasoned guidance in making wise and compassionate decisions when approached for financial donations.
Beth Templeton is a minister who clearly understands both...
Positively M. A. D.
Making a Difference in Your Organizations, Communities, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2004
Featuring contributions by more than 50 of Berrett-Koehler's most renowned authors, Positively M.A.D. is a collection of stories about real people making real changes, large and small, in their organizations and communities. The founder of an adoption agency specialzing in placing "unadoptable"...
However Long the Night
Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In However Long the Night, Aimee Molloy tells the unlikely and inspiring story of Molly Melching, an American woman whose experience as an exchange student in Senegal led her to found Tostan and dedicate almost four decades of her life to the girls and women of Africa.
This moving biography...
A Mighty Purpose
How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The inspiring story of how the iconoclastic humanitarian Jim Grant succeeded in saving the lives of tens of millions of children through his extraordinary ability to win over world leaders
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Nicholas Kristof hailed Jim Grant as a man who “probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler,...
The Social Contract
or, Principles of Political Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Rights (French: Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face...
by Bob Maddams
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Lights, Camera Jemuru – Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia is the remarkable true-life story of a high-flying adman who swapped his expense account lifestyle in London to go and teach in a back-street community film school, Gem TV, in Addis Ababa. Bob Maddams spent ten years living and working...
Genuine Dialogue and Real Partnership
Foundations of True Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Building Genuine Community emphasizes a notion of a community in which people are bound together by a common life situation and a common purpose without using that common purpose as an exclusionary factor that distinguishes between those who belong and those who do not belong to the community. Without...
by Mark Helyar
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Rising from the Dust ~ India's Hidden VoicesNew, updated edition.Quitting his job and selling his house, Mark travels to India. He lands in Delhi, belted, braced and prepared for all eventualities. Or so he thinks. Though he craves the ultimate travel adventure, a load of western...
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...
The Ten Percent Solution
Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
This short, powerful work is potentially life changing, for it is filled with simple solutions to the difficult problems that confront us ? individually and globally. Marc Allen offers clear, doable solutions to both our personal financial problems and global problems. Key to many of these solutions...
The Give-Back Solution
Create a Better World with Your Time, Talents and Travel (Whether You Have $10 or $10,000)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
An unprecedented surge of ordinary people are using their time, talents, and travel to make a better world.
What's Your Part of the Give-Back Solution?
Reaching out and supporting others brings out the best in all of us. Giving back strengthens America-but the under-appreciated secret...
Give a Little
How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
"With open hearts and open hands, we gave what we could, and a little became a lot." --from Give a Little
Dimes destroyed polio. Five bucks can beat malaria. Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World not only contains remarkable, inspiring stories of how small donations...
Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse
The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
100% of all proceeds of the sale of this book will be donated to the Human Development Fund in Bangkok, Thailand
The Reverend Joseph H. Maier, C.Ss.R., is a Redemptorist priest from the United States. He came to Thailand in 1967 as a missionary, serving in north Isan and then among the Hmong...
Showing Up for Life
Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”—lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he instilled in his children and continues to practice...