78 books (4 pages) in this category
Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School
by Amy Brown
<DIV><P>Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely ...
ISBN: 9781452945507
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eBookHow Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children
by Adam Fifield
<p><strong>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</strong><br /> ** **<br /> Nicholas Kristof
ISBN: 9781590516041
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eBookby Alessandra Cavalluzzi
<p>Is it possible to change the world one company at a time? Absolutely, and this book will show you how. Whether you're a CEO, a human resources professional, or a leader dedicated to making a difference, <em>A Million Dollars in ...
ISBN: 9781634891042
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eBookEnacting Civic Engagement and Social Transformation
by Sharon D. Welch
<p><strong>When the protests are over, a guide to creating long-lasting social change beyond the barricades</strong></p> <p>From the Women’s March in D.C. to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests
ISBN: 9781479858842
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eBookAmerican Philanthropic Foundations
Regional Difference and Change
by David C. Hammack & Steven Rathgeb Smith
<p>Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in <em>American Philanthropic ...
ISBN: 9780253033079
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eBookby Merle Curti
<p>This book tells for the first time, in rich detail, and without apologetics, what Americans have done, in the voluntary sector and often without official sanction, for human welfare in all parts of the world. Beneath the currently fashionable
ISBN: 9781351532471
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eBookAmericans in Tuscany: Charity, Compassion, and Belonging
by Trundle, Catherine
<p> Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with ...
ISBN: 9781782383703
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eBookGrassroots Solutions from New Mexico
by Dede Feldman
<p><em><strong>Another Way Forward: Grassroots Solutions from New Mexico</strong></em> offers hope to anyone discouraged by the nation’s inability to tackle problems like poverty and health care. Award-winning author and former Senator Dede ...
ISBN: 9780999586419
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eBook50 Years Inside the American Film Institute
by Jean Picker Firstenberg, James Hindman, Patty Jenkins & others
<p>For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America’s great cultural entities. Its graduates, faculty, supporters, and trustees have included such acclaimed individuals as Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou, Gregory
ISBN: 9781595807946
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eBookBlack Children Sell Best: An Aid Worker's Reflections On A Broken Industry
by RB Landeck
<p>Over the past 5 decades, aid & development have grown into a multi-billion dollar business, yet little has changed for the millions of poor around the world. So where does all the money go? Few who donate to international charities ...
ISBN: 9780463906255
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eBookPious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt
by Mona Atia
<DIV><p><BR>Charity is an economic act. This premise underlies a societal transformation—the merging of religious and capitalist impulses that Mona Atia calls “pious neoliberalism.” Though the phenomenon spans religious lines, Atia makes the ...
ISBN: 9781452939834
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eBookby Jeffreys, Elaine
There is no question that celebrities these days are some of the most prominent faces of philanthropic activity - yet their participation raises questions about efficacy, motivations, and activism overall. This book presents case studies of ...
ISBN: 9781783204830
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eBookClaiming Agency: Reflecting on TrustAfrica¿s First Decade
by Mahomed, Halima
Claiming Agency. Reflecting on TrustAfrica?s First Decade takes an in-depth look at an African-led foundation that set out to do things differently. Founded in 2006, when solutions to Africa?s challenges were often developed outside its ...
ISBN: 9781779223029
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eBookCorporate Community Involvement
The Definitive Guide to Maximizing Your Business' Societal Engagement
by Nick Lakin & Veronica Scheubel
<p>"We need to do Community Involvement better – we know we're spending millions each year on charitable causes; how can we find out what is really effective and what people will appreciate us for? Who should we partner with? How can we ...
ISBN: 9781351279024
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eBookCSR: A Multidisciplinary CONCEPT
by Dr. Joji Valli
Increasing impact of the global corporations in all aspects of social life and in the environment has been the catalyst in the emergence of a new diversity of stakeholders demanding accountability about the impact of corporate activity in the ...
ISBN: 9783959267328
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eBookCSR: A Rich Sustainable LEGACY
by Dr. Joji Valli
CSR is rooted in a strong philosophical foundation from West and East. The basic problem with individuals and corporate is that they lack the awareness of its philosophical basis, philosophical legitimacy and ethical responsibility.<br /> Every ...
ISBN: 9783959267359
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eBookCSR: An Antidote for Selfishness
by Dr. Joji Valli
<p>Society gets contaminated with viruses of selfishness, self-interest, egoism, greed etc. It eventually hinders the perpetual growth and progress that affect everyone in the society. Such sick society gradually denies the basic human needs ...
ISBN: 9781311347329
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eBookby Dr. Joji Valli
Life is the answer to life. Life is what happens between conception and death ? a journey that starts in the womb and ends at the tomb. In the meantime whatever happens is nothing but, what we call as life. But somehow we forget the attitude of ...
ISBN: 9783959267281
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eBookby Dr. Joji Valli
Philosophy aims at individual liberation through cessation of pain and suffering. The world around what we see is full of miseries and suffering. Human life is a saga of suffering, pain and happiness. Although happiness is there when we take the
ISBN: 9783959267335
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eBookCSR: Some Influential PHILOSOPHERS
by Dr. Joji Valli
No one is a born philosopher or everyone is born as a philosopher. We can look at it either way. Most of us use the philosophy or the so called reasoning mind for finding happiness of the self and come out with a selfishness philosophy to boost ...
ISBN: 9783959267342
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