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  • Mercy's Heroes

    The Fight for Human Dignity in the Bangkok Slums

    by Tom Crowley ...
    In Mercy's Heroes, a Vietnam veteran battling with PTSD turns from the business world to life as a volunteer, helping to rescue and protect street kids in Bangkok's biggest slum.Here Tom Crowley details the children's efforts to survive abuse and the struggle for dignity waged by the poorest of families. Interwoven throughout, the author's combat experiences and pain highlight the question of how ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Les laboratoires du lien social

    L'expérience Aquitaine de la solidarité

    Series series Le territoire et ses acteurs
    La restauration du lien social, dans une société fragilisée par le poids du chômage et de la nouvelle organisation du travail, mobilise aujourd’hui un nombre croissant d’associations, d’institutions territoriales, d’acteurs publics et politiques, d’entreprises, de chercheurs, de consultants, autour d’une idée centrale : redonner voix aux « sans-voix », aux exclus du travail, aux salariés précaires ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK

    Responses, Impacts and Adaptation

    The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond. This book curates rigorous academic, policy and practice-based research into the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector during the pandemic. Contributions explore the ways the sector responded to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Working Parents Program

    Story of a bottom to top CSR program of a voluntary team of a multi-company

    You are holding a book based on a true story. This book is the story of a mission. A mission that surpassed the level of dreams. A mission, which has materialized so quickly and professionally that it has changed anything we knew of company motivational systems – in the best sense possible. All this happened in the everyday life of one of the biggest companies today.We recommend this book to You ... Read more

    $5.18 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Office Walls Navigating the Frontier of Remote Work

    "Beyond the Office Walls: Navigating the Frontier of Remote Work" opens a door to the transformative landscape reshaping the traditional work paradigm. This anthology is a compelling exploration of the remote work revolution, providing a mosaic of stories that resonate with the experiences, challenges, and triumphs of individuals navigating this uncharted territory.As the boundaries of the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eco-activism and Social Work

    New Directions in Leadership and Group Work

    Series series Indigenous and Environmental Social Work
    Social workers are called upon to shift from a human-centric bias to an ecological ethical sensibility by embracing love as integral to their justice mission and by extending the idea of social justice to include environmental and species justice. This book presents the love ethic model as a way to do eco-justice work using public campaigns, research, community arts practice and other nonviolent, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Story of My Childhood

    by Clara Barton ...
    "Clara Barton has written this short but very entertaining, narrative of her youth." - The Book News Monthly (1907)"This work is a valuable source." -American Heroes (2008)"Indispensable for an understanding of her character." - Notable American Women (1971)"In response to a request from a young admirer, Barton wrote a book about her early life, 'The Story of My Childhood." - Nursing's Greatest ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unheard Voices

    Community Organizations and Service Learning

    Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities. But while the students gain from their experiences, the contributors to The Unheard Voices ask, "Does the community?"This volume explores the impact of service learning on a community, and considers the unequal ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • No More Status Quo: A Proven Framework to Change the Way We Change the World

    A guide for frustrated changemakersIf you have ever felt disillusioned with the way you work, your organization’s strategy, or the social sector overall, you are not alone. Like you, Heather Hiscox used to wonder whether passionately created programs were really making significant changes in people’s lives, or why the sector jumps to solutions and wastes resources without a process to guide their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strategic Planning in the Humanitarian Sector

    A Manual to Foresight and Futures-Focused Thinking

    This book provides humanitarian practitioners and policy makers with a manual for how to apply foresight and strategy in their work. Drawing on extensive research, the book demonstrates in practical terms how embedding futures-focused thinking into practice can help humanitarian actors to enhance their impact and fit for the future. The book provides readers with a step-by-step guide to an ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Engageer U

    In deze korte, krachtige tekst diept Réginald Moreels het concept ‘engagement’ uit in al zijn facetten.Zijn werk als chirurg in oorlogsgebieden, onder meer voor Artsen Zonder Grenzen, is een sterk voorbeeld van volgehouden engagement. Waarom doet hij dat? Wat drijft hem? Een eenvoudige vraag, waarop hij zelf geen eenduidig antwoord heeft.Réginald Moreels verkent zijn eigen motieven en gaat van ... Read more

    $9.93 USD

  • Years of My Youth (Illustrations)

    Example in this ebookWHENEVER I visit the region of a famous man’s youth I have the feeling that I ought to discover there some clue to the secret of his greatness; for I cannot help fancying that the environment must have molded him and been an essential element in the development of his individuality and power. It was with such expectations that I recently went to Ohio, just as spring was ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Preparati all'incertezza

    Fare formazione in ambito sociale

    Questo libro nasce dall’esperienza dell’Università della strada del Gruppo Abele, nata nel 1978 e consolidatasi in decenni particolarmente impegnativi per quanto riguarda il settore della formazione. Università e strada erano nel 1978, e sono in parte ancor oggi, termini all’apparenza antitetici. Eppure l’esperienza ha dimostrato che il contatto con la strada può insegnare molto e rispondere in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • IO

    9000 Km e Hakuna Matata

    by Silvia Corio ...
    Un treno, un computer, una destinazione incerta, ma nella testa un sogno improvviso, la voglia di iniziare a scrivere e di visitare un paese sconosciuto. L'Africa. Il bisogno di partire, di cambiare, di conoscere, di scoprire, di mettersi alla prova, di sentire, di staccare la spina, di allontanarsi per avvicinarsi.Un libro che vi fa entrare in un cuore, dandovi completamente la sua chiave, ma che ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thrift Store Graces

    Finding God's Gifts in the Midst of the Mess

    by Jane Knuth ...
    This “ridiculous” religious thinking—that when we help the poor, they end up helping us—is at the heart of the 30 stories that Jane Knuth shares in Thrift Store Graces, the sequel to her popular Thrift Store Saints. Similar to the first book, Thrift Store Graces contains personal accounts of Knuth’s experiences serving as a once reluctant, now enthusiastic volunteer at a thrift store in Kalamazoo, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Footprints in the Dust

    Roberta Gately is a nurse and humanitarian aid worker who has served in war zones ranging from Africa to Afghanistan aiding refugees. Just the word refugee sparks conversation and fuel emotion. There are more than 22 million refugees worldwide and another 65 million who have been forcibly displaced. But who are these people? Images filter into our consciousness via dramatic photographs—but these ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Introduction to Fundraising Presentation

    by Gordon Owen ...
    Series series Fundraising Training Material Series
    Introductory Training Presentation in Fundraising for Voluntary Sector New, Small, and Emerging Organisations/Groups. A PowerPoint presentation or pdf version which is more explanatory and illlustrative is also available for anyone who buys this eBook and makes a request. ... Read more

    $7.88 USD

  • Sociology of Sanitation

    The book Sociology of Sanitation delineates the conceptual and theoretical formulations necessary for the study of sanitation. It develops some postulates that lead us to the various visible and invisible dimensions of sanitation. It uses data provided by various national and global agencies and presents a paradigm for Sociology of Sanitation. It examines how the sanitation situation prevailing in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Dalla loro parte

    Un vissuto esistenziale dedicato a coloro che hanno bisogno di rappresentanza, di tutele e di promozione sociale e civile

    by Rita Pavan ...
    Series Book 5 - Storie positive
    «Cosa consiglieresti a noi giovani, tu che hai iniziato così presto ad occuparti di quello che ti succedeva attorno?». A questa domanda rivoltami da un ragazzo durante un incontro, ho risposto semplicemente di «Non voltarti mai dall’altra parte».Il racconto di una vita impegnata nel sindacato e nel sociale è il filo conduttore di questo libro. Nell’impegno di rappresentare, tutelare e promuovere ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Хочу помочь: Как поддерживать других, сохраняя себя и свои силы

    Помощь другим — один из способов жить осмысленно. Делая что-то для других, люди чувствуют себя нужными. Одни для этого идут в помогающие профессии, другие выбирают помощь как занятие в свободное от работы время, например становятся волонтерами, для третьих помощь — это образ жизни. Но зачастую в процессе своей работы «помогатели» сами сталкиваются с серьезными психологическими трудностями и порой ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love Forward

    Can a single act of love have global impact? Robert Benson's answer is "yes." In 1968, his life was changed when an ordinary couple took him home from a children's shelter in California. Over the next fifty years, the reverberations reached around the world and changed hundreds more, as Robert sought to help other abused and abandoned children. That is the principle behind Love Forward.In this ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Das Gegenteil von Gut … ist Gut gemeint

    In der Savanne Ghanas geschieht Seltsames. In ihren abgelegenen Dörfern stehen seit einiger Zeit Einrichtungen, die dort nicht stehen sollten; bewohnt von Kindern, die dort nicht wohnen müssten; betrieben als Geschäft, das nicht betrieben werden dürfte. Denn neun von zehn Waisenkindern in Ghana haben eigentlich Familie, leben ohne Notwendigkeit getrennt von ihren Eltern und Geschwistern. Und das ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deconstructing Service-Learning

    Research Exploring Context, Participation, and Impacts

    Series series Advances in Service-Learning Research
    This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as: challenges for service-learning research; enhancing theory-based research on service learning; dilemmas of service learning teachers; the diffusion of academic service learning in teacher education; and more. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • ONG : compassion à tous les rayons?

    Du « Tsunami » au Népal, en passant par Haïti, les Rohingyas, la crise syrienne ou celle des migrants, les ONG sont-elles devenues des grandes surfaces de la solidarité vendant de la compassion à tous les rayons à une clientèle désormais captive en mal d’émotions ?L’ouvrage raconte de l’intérieur la réalité contemporaine des ONG et interroge, sans concession et pour la bonne cause, la fabrique de ... Read more

    $11.08 USD or Free with Kobo Plus