Philanthropy category: 319 books
by Millard Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999
In these pages you will find inspiring, true stories of people who didn't have hope?until they had a home. Stories of children who gained identity and confidence for their future. Of families made stronger and healthier and prison inmates who are now giving back to their communities. Of entire communities...
From Crisis to Calling
Finding Your Moral Center in the Toughest Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Making the Hardest Decisions
As a young aid worker, Sasha Chanoff was sent to evacuate a group of refugees from the violence-torn Congo. But when he arrived he discovered a second group. Evacuating them too could endanger the entire mission. But leaving them behind would mean their certain...
How to do Good
Essays on Building a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A collection of extraordinary personal stories from thought leaders, celebrities, statesmen and women, Nobel prize winners, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists and others driving and inspiring positive change.
by Ted Wells
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
This collection of true short stories (tied together with 80 old photographs and 12 original letters) is set in a very remote almost inaccessible part of Ethiopia back in the 1960s when Haile Selasie was still alive and in power.Partly for the adventure, but also just to escape being drafted...
The Doc and the Duchess
The Life and Legacy of George H. A. Clowes
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
George Henry Alexander Clowes was a pivotal figure in the development of the insulin program at the Eli Lilly Company. Through his leadership, scientists and clinicians at Lilly and the University of Toronto created a unique, international team to develop and purify insulin and take the production...
by Christopher Handy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Why Changing Your Mindset Can Change Your Life! In This Book, You Will Learn: Volunteering Basics, Less Fortunate And Disabled Kids, The Aged, Your Community, Helping Others Via Your Occupation, And so much more! Volunteering is a selfless way to dedicate your time to work with individuals who are...
The Paradox of Generosity
Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life. Organ donation, volunteering, and the funding of charities can all be illuminated by sociological and psychological perspectives on how American adults conceive...
Doing Good Better
How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place. Unfortunately, we often base these decisions on assumptions and emotions...
Do It Anyway
The New Generation of Activists
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
If you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you. Courtney Martin’s rich profiles of the new generation of activists dig deep, to ask the questions that really matter: How do you create a meaningful life? Can one person even begin to make a difference in our hugely complex, globalized world?
by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
The model Memorandum & Articles of Association for a Limited Company (under Guarantee) serves for a voluntary organisation registering both under the Charities Act and Companies Acts. The author prior to the current legislation originally wrote this model but modified.
It should...
The Cathedral Within
Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
Bill Shore has written a wise and inspiring book that shows us how to make the most of life and do something that counts.
Like the cathedral builders of an earlier time, the visionaries described in this memoir share a single desire: to create something that endures. The great cathedrals did...
by Wesley Parks
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
This book covers several topics including:
Chapter 1: What Is Abundance Chapter 2: Passions Place In Abundance Chapter 3: Direction Is Required For Abundance Chapter 4: The Importance Of Giving Chapter 5: Karma and Abundance-What Is It? Chapter 6: The Art Of Giving Chapter 7: The Rules...
by Gordon Owen
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
This Handbook + Information + Contacts - Resource Data for Night Shelter Volunteers & Workers eBook simply serves to provide an outline guidance for ay group setting up a Night Shelter in their locality and some of the information, contacts, and resources that may help in the process of adopting...
Giving Charities Green
A Funded & Practical Guide to Taking Your Charity Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
Its time for your charity to embrace and embed environmental sustainability into your organization. This book will walk you through a proven process that was successfully embedded into one of North America's largest and oldest charities - the YMCA. It will help to proactively navigate obstacles,...