Philanthropy Charity category: 319 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...
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...
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...
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?