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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > Charities & voluntary services
On 1 January 1999, Travis Gale (aged 17) and Stephen Bonaconsa (aged 27) left Johannesburg on a mission to cycle across four continents and raise R1 million for children living with, and affected by HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal. They pedalled out of Johannesburg, riding mountain bikes equipped with panniers, carrying the basic requirements for an adventure. They rode unsupported. No Instagram or Facebook. It was just the two of them and the open road. The pair successfully cycled over 16 000 kilometres, across four continents, through 16 countries, raising R1.7 million for their cause.
When asked to share about his experience, Travis very rarely spends time talking about the start or the finish of the tour. The stories Travis shares are from The Middle. It’s The Middle that tests us with challenges, yielding a multitude of emotions. It’s The Middle that involves the raw and often painful need to dig deep, to push through the barriers that stand in our way, and show ourselves what we are capable of. The Middle is what we, as human beings, were designed for. We can all pitch up at start lines. We can all celebrate a finish. But no finish is without a Middle and every Middle is where WHO WE ARE is revealed.
This book, The Middle, includes eight stories, drawn from eight key days of a world cycle tour, which will encourage and equip people through The Middle; the territory we must navigate in pursuit of our goals.
Social entrepreneurship is growing and is at the top of the UK
government's agenda for improving the provision of welfare services
to individuals and communities. This book introduces students and
practitioners to the current policy context of UK social
entrepreneurship and the focus on those skills practitioners need
to initiate, to develop, and to run enterprises in this field. It
is first text to bring together the different insights of academics
and practitioners of social entrepreneurship. It shows how to
identify community need, to work in partnership with the intended
recipients of a service, to finance enterprises, and to manage
organizations through their various developmental stages. The book
provides readers with the ability to reflect on how these key
skills operate in the real world by the presentation of case
studies from the UK, the US, China, and India.
NGOs headquartered in the North have been, for some time, the most
visible in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political
representation, and labor exploitation that disproportionally
affect women from the global South. Feminist NGOs and NGOs focusing
on women's rights have been successful in attracting funding for
their causes, but critics argue that the highly educated elites
from the global North and South who run them fail to question or
understand the power hierarchies in which they operate. In order to
give depth to these criticisms, Sara de Jong interviewed women NGO
workers in seven different European countries about their
experiences and perspectives on working on gendered issues
affecting women in the global South. Complicit Sisters untangles
and analyzes the complex tensions women NGO workers face and
explores the ways in which they negotiate potential complicities in
their work. Weighing the women NGO workers' first-hand accounts
against critiques arising from feminist theory, postcolonial
theory, global civil society theory and critical development
literature, de Jong brings to life the dilemmas of "doing good."
She considers these workers' ideas about "sisterhood," privilege,
gender stereotypes, feminism, and the private/public divide, and
she suggests avenues for productive engagement between these and
the inevitable tensions and complexities in NGO work.
With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy
barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty,
ill-health and environmental degradation ballooning daily, it is
increasingly clear that new models for financing and promoting
social and environmental objectives have become urgently needed.
Fortunately, however, a significant revolution appears to be
underway in the way in which social and environmental purposes are
being financed. The heart of this revolution is a massive explosion
in the instruments and institutions being deployed to mobilize
private resources in support of social and environmental
objectives. Where earlier such support was limited to charitable
gifts, now a bewildering array of new instruments and institutions
has surfaced-loans, loan guarantees, private equity, barter
arrangements, social stock exchanges, bonds, secondary markets,
investment funds, and many more-all of them designed to leverage
not just the tens of billions of dollars of philanthropic grants
but the hundreds of billions, indeed trillions, of dollars of
private investment capital. While the changes under way are
inspiring and by no means trivial, however, they remain largely
uncharted in any systematic fashion. This monograph, and of the
companion volume for which it also serves as the introductory
chapter, is designed to overcome this problem, to provide the first
comprehensible and accessible roadmap to the full range of
important new developments taking place on the frontiers of
philanthropy and social investment. In the process, it seeks to
broaden awareness of these developments, increase their credence
and traction, and make it possible to maximize the benefits they
can generate while acknowledging the limitations and challenges
they also face.
Charities in Britain contribute over GBP40 billion to the economy.
More than a million people serve as trustees in a wide range of
not-for-profit organisations. Yet there are almost no books to help
them perform this important task. In this book, the author brings a
fresh perspective to the role of trustee. He provides a range of
practical advice to help and guide you to become a successful and
confident trustee, including tips on developing strategy, handling
governance issues, forming good communications and ensuring you are
informed about what is happening within the charity. There are
chapters on finance and on handling fraud. Written in a jargon-free
style, it should become the go-to book for those who want to put
their skills to use serving as a trustee in a not-for-profit
organisation.
Economics for Nonprofit Managers and Social Entrepreneurs updates
the world's first textbook in nonprofit economics, and shows how
economics contributes to better managerial decisions on social
matters. A pioneering textbook for nonprofit and social managers,
this second edition adds risk analysis, game theory, and behavioral
economics to the managerial tool kit, along with analysis at the
margin, opportunity cost, elasticity of demand and supply, market
power, and cost-benefit analysis, with numerous timely examples.
This text is essential for nonprofit managers and social
entrepreneurs, and of interest to all economics students.
Economics for Nonprofit Managers and Social Entrepreneurs updates
the world's first textbook in nonprofit economics, and shows how
economics contributes to better managerial decisions on social
matters. A pioneering textbook for nonprofit and social managers,
this second edition adds risk analysis, game theory, and behavioral
economics to the managerial tool kit, along with analysis at the
margin, opportunity cost, elasticity of demand and supply, market
power, and cost-benefit analysis, with numerous timely examples.
This text is essential for nonprofit managers and social
entrepreneurs, and of interest to all economics students.
Opening novel avenues of knowledge in the study of African
philanthropy and development, this incisive book provides a
critical assessment of philanthropic responses during crisis and
non-crisis periods. It explores how collaboration between
multilateral institutions and philanthropic organisations during a
crisis can be harnessed and replicated to address the continent's
developmental challenges during non-crisis periods. Combining
empirical insights with cutting edge theory, this forward-thinking
book investigates the activities of high-net worth individuals,
foundations, and corporate actors working with governments to
create shared value. Through individual case studies and
comparative analyses across diverse sectors and geographies,
chapters demonstrate how shared value is crucial to building
resilience in societies through philanthropy. The book ultimately
makes a call for deeper and more meaningful forms of collaboration
among the key actors in society: governments, the private sector,
high-net worth individuals, and multilateral institutions. This
highly innovative book will be an essential resource for
researchers and academics interested in development studies, the
sociology of organisations, and social policy in developing
countries. Its empirical grounding will also inform policy
responses in crisis and non-crisis periods.
Wouldn't charity governance be so much easier if it wasn't for all
of your fellow trustees? Being knowledgeable and experienced as a
trustee is important, but having the ability to interact
effectively with your fellow board members, that is where good
governance really starts. Get it wrong and, very quickly, you've
got a battle on the board. Working in sustained harmony towards a
common goal can be a tall order for many trustees. Debra Allcock
Tyler's approach to this challenging subject is characteristically
engaging as she adopts a different ABBA tune as the theme for each
chapter. Frank and with real-life examples firmly to the fore, she
mixes leadership theory with practical advice delivered straight
from the shoulder. It includes: * Understanding the trustee role *
Working with fellow trustees and the CEO * Compliance and
regulation * Dealing with information and understanding the money *
The psychology of decision-making * Managing risk and handling
crisis So, if you are a trustee or about to become one, you will
benefit from the insights and hard-won wisdom distilled in this
book. If you want to be the dancing queen (or king) of good
governance and avoid a waterloo for your charity, then this book is
for you.
Funding Philanthropy investigates Dr Barnardo's work and
philanthropic 'empire' as early manifestations of promotional and
branding mechanisms in the mid- to late-Victorian period, processes
that would seem commonplace by the mid- to late-twentieth century.
Barnardo possessed a strategic sense of what would excite people's
interest and pity, as well as a seemingly unfailing capacity to
package and promote evangelical philanthropy on behalf of children,
the nation and the Empire. Thus, the book explores Barnardo as
creative promoter and 'showman,' a savvy entrepreneur in an
evangelical context that overtly mandated against privileging
business principles generally, and the practice of direct appeal
specifically. To manage the business of philanthropy, Barnardo
operated as narrator, orchestrator, and showman, depending upon
artfully constructed bodies, images and stories as imperatives for
emotional engagement and collective participation. Funding
Philanthropy offers new knowledge to anyone interested in Victorian
history, conceptualising children, literary modes, and marketing
practices. The book also considers how Barnardo's conception of
charity is closely aligned with principles of unconditional
hospitality, precisely at a moment in time when the English were
intent on centralising philanthropy and on meting out support
according to measures Barnardo regarded as punitive and
unchristian. Part One explicates how institutional branding evolved
according to the properties associated with the metaphor of the
'open door'; Part Two elucidates how narrative devices associated
with fiction raise both affect and funds; Part Three concentrates
on how Barnardo exploited strategies associated with dramatic
performance in public spectacles, despite his adamant strictures
against the theatre itself. Discussion burrows down to elucidate
such events as highly ritualised Annual General Meetings, child
picnics, as well as ubiquitous 'bazaars' and self-denial drives.
Extensive research in Barnardo's vast archive of periodical
publication for children, youth and adults and the wider public
press underpin the discursive analysis.
Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting
community development and social change. This can be achieved
through a number of methods including public policy and urban
development. The Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and
Social Change in Contemporary Society is a critical scholarly
resource that examines the unexplored field of applying social
change to civic engagement in an effort to enlarge public welfare
activities. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as
civic education, sustainable development, and child labor, this
publication is geared towards academicians, researchers, and
students seeking current research on civic engagement and public
welfare.
How to Become an International Disaster Volunteer discusses the
immense value an experienced water systems engineer, trauma
surgeon, or communications specialist could bring to a disaster
stricken community, while also explaining how their professional
educations do not prepare them for the logistical, psychological,
and physical demands of traveling to, and functioning in, an
international catastrophe with little water or electricity, limited
sleep and food, a chaotic working environment, and with team
members from diverse backgrounds and with different personalities.
This book provides a step-by-step guide for the entire process,
including self-evaluating tactics, fitness measurements for
volunteering, how to research disaster relief organizations, how to
gain appropriate training and applicable experiences, the best
practices during deployments, and the personal recovery process
upon returning home. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of the
progression, but also includes case studies of disasters, profiles
of relief organizations, and checklists for each stage.
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