Sharing the value of a positive attitude in overcoming challenges and the importance of giving back, Women Like Us: Illuminating the World presents a collection of narratives about women from around the world who have changed their lives and the lives of others through their service and dedication. Women Like Us tells the stories of Deb Carlson of rural Alaska, who chose a life of hand-built structures, gardening, hiking, and living minimally while doing her part to develop her community; of Toni Lusk, a trailing corporate wife who found a way to make a difference and to give back despite moving often; and of Linda Grover-once a child of foster care, now a woman on a mission to create change in the system. Authors Linda Rendleman and Sally Brown Bassett salute and celebrate life-changing women by sharing a variety of uplifting vignettes, such as the journey of one woman who moved to Uganda and started a birthing center to support mothers with AIDS and another who helped to build a school in a Kenyan village. The messages communicated in Women Like Us serve to inspire and motivate women to find their passion, put purpose to that passion, contribute to creating a better world, and transform their own lives.

The Power of Philanthropy is a collection of stories that represent the most extraordinary individuals who are contributing at the highest levels in making a bold difference in the world. It includes stories of non-profit organizations, corporations, entrepreneurs and more who all have one thing in common: their commitment to being of service to others has made a measurable difference in the lives of many.

Jesus said that we should love God and we should love other people.Then Paul said don't just pretend to love other people... really love them. This is the idea behind Love Love. It's the story of a community that has gathered to try and really love people. The book is packed with over 200 ideas of practical ways you can love people in your world so you can demonstrate the love of God to them. The best part is it's free. Our gift to you so you can spread a little love.

How did one youth services organization exceed its fundraising goal in the middle of a recession? Why did another triple its annual donations? How do you work with volunteers who say "I don't want to be a fundraiser"? In Raising Money for Mighty Missions, two veteran fundraisers tell you step-by-step how to * assess your organization's readiness to raise funds * develop a comprehensive fundraising plan * maintain strong relationships with donors * have the right person make ask for the right amount Their strategies and tools take the mystery out of raising funds for the causes that matter most.

Chicktime is a grass-roots movement meant to support and encourage women pursuing their passions with gusto. It is our belief that if each woman on the planet takes her place right now, together we can accomplish the phenomenal. We help passionate women set up Chicktime groups in their areas with the hope of creating a network of chapters across America. Chicktime groups accomplish many things. Here area a few: 1. Connect women to creative and fun opportunities to pursue their passions while serving others; 2. Provide a place for women to serve and play together; 3. Raise awareness for local women and children's charities. The idea is to expose the next generation to a wide array of gifts and talents so that they can look inside themselves and identify their own.

If you are looking for a book that will give you a range of ideas on how to make a positive impact in the African-American community, then "Black Americans, We Need You " is it. This book has: *400+ pages of solutions focused on the improvement of Black America *300+ community driven organizations identified across Black America *200+ community empowering programs across Black America *70+ detailed non-profit and for-profit community examples across Black America (This book was written because of the deep passion that God put in me to make a difference in my community. As I was preparing my detailed plan for my own non-profit vision I realized that I had gathered a vast amount of information that could help others. The first section of the book, I described how each of us could make an immediate impact. In section two, I identified hundreds of organizations around this country that are making a positive difference in Black America for the sole purpose to give you ideas on how to make an impact in your community. I went into a deeper depth of seventy plus organizations that has programs that stretch across character development, crime prevention, education development, community development, economic development, health & wellness and so much more. The categories below are also addressed among the hundreds of programs that I have highlighted. Please, find an area within you community where you can make a positive impact. We need more concerned citizens to help by giving your time and resources to the following programs. I hope this book inspires you with great ideas so you can make a significant impact in the lives of those around you. B. Rice) Black Americans, We Need You is written with the hope that the examples and writings within the book will inspire and encourage ordinary African-Americans to step in and help those they can. Brian K. Rice did a wonderful job of explaining the need and then providing examples of solutions for the each need. If you would like to scan through a sample of the book, go to www.briankrice.com and click on the PDF excerpt of the book on the "Black Americans, We Need You " page. Feel free to visit Brian at www.briankrice.com to learn more about the positive vision and mission placed on his life.

With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, and aid agencies are obliged to respond to a range of economic forces in order to 'stay in business'. In his customarily hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss offers penetrating insights into the complexities and challenges of the contemporary humanitarian marketplace. In addition to changing political and military conditions that generate demand for aid, private suppliers have changed too. Today's political economy places aid agencies side-by-side with for-profit businesses, including private military and security companies, in a marketplace that also is linked to global trade networks in illicit arms, natural resources, and drugs. This witch's brew is simmering in the cauldron of wars that are often protracted and always costly to civilians who are the very targets of violence. While belligerents put a price-tag on access to victims, aid agencies pursue branding in a competition for 'scarce' resources relative to the staggering needs. As marketization encroaches on traditional humanitarianism, it seems everything may have a pricenfrom access and principles, to moral authority and lives.

Imagine that fundraising propels your organization and its mission towards success. Programs are funded. Benchmarks are reached. Budgets are met. But how might fundraising create such sustainability in the face of today's challenges? The answers can be found in Fundraising Innovators: Leaders in Social Enterprise Share New Approaches to Raising Money. The innovators in this book, including experts from large and small nonprofits, social entrepreneurs and corporate citizens, will describe in detail how to make this your reality. These modern fundraisers innovate and reinvent to raise money. They see opportunities not obstacles. In Fundraising Innovators the interviews reveal how to: 1. Leverage Technology 2. Integrate Marketing 3. Champion Corporate Philanthropy 4. Reinvent Fundraising Fundamentals. Features fresh insights from 17 innovators on successful fundraising for nonprofits: Vinay Bhagat: Embracing Technology and Its Tools; Holly Ross: Integrating Technology with Marketing; Ed Messman: Online Campaigns; Robert Wolfe: Crowd Sourcing and Modern Internet Practices; Katya Andresen: Online Marketing, Donor Loyalty and Gratitude; Rich Rainaldi: How Metrics Tell a Story; Steve Daigneault: Authenticity and Storytelling; Richard Crespin: Philanthropy and Corporate Responsibility; Simon Mainwaring: Shared Interest in Building Community and Relationships; Ryan Scott: Employee Engagement; Francisco Gonima: Collaboration and Innovation; Peter Wilderotter: Building Partnerships Inside and Out; Eric Scroggins: Defined Fundraising Plans and Relationship Growth; Peter Kiernan: Strategic Leadership and Business Principles; Scott Lumpkin: Donor-Centered Practices; Henry G. Stifel: Structure and Recognition; John Shaw: Corporate Leaders as the Face of Philanthropy. *Bonus: Includes a detailed fundraising plan that you can put to use to raise money for your organization or cause.

A valuable resource for you, Giving Is Not Just For The Very Rich is an inspiring, easy-to-use guide which gives you numerous creative ideas on how to reap the many benefits of giving. It's all about your feeling connected to worthwhile programs, achieving a sense of purpose, and deriving immeasurable pleasure from helping others. Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson offers you reasons to give, considers values and concerns, and advises you how to give wisely. She presents you with examples from the wealthiest donors, innovative givers, social entrepreneurs, celebrities, government officials, nonprofit professionals, volunteers, and social media networkers. To help you zero in on major areas for your giving, she reviews religious philanthropy, education K-12, higher education, science and health, arts and culture, sports, multipurpose umbrella organizations, awards, and international aid. Finally, she shows you how to evaluate charities, make choices, and realize your commitments.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

The director of one of the largest grassroots volunteer programs in the country shows how everyone can give back.
Just in time for the season of giving, "Everyone Helps, Everyone Wins" will change how Americans give back to their communities.
Once a self-proclaimed "reluctant volunteer"-too busy and unmotivated- David Levinson is now director of the largest regional volunteer network, Big Sunday, with an army of fifty thousand volunteers across California. Speaking to the reluctant volunteer in everyone, he boosts our "Volunteer IQ" with specific advice on how, where, and why we can help. He candidly addresses the benefits and pitfalls of volunteering. And he tackles situations and individuals across the spectrum-people with one free day a year, retirees, community organizers, and those who want to ensure their checks go to the right cause. With a list of "Fifty-two Ways to Give Back," David brainstorms ideas for traditional and offbeat ways to contribute to your community; each has the pros, the cons, and a how-to guide. Combined with a comprehensive appendic listing online and print resources, this book provides both the motivation and the action plan to get every community working.
Sixty-one million Americans volunteered last year and many more made charitable donations. This will become the book they - and their community's organizers - all need to make sure their time and money are put to good use.

Today, the voluntary sector expects and is expected to deliver high quality services that match the standard of those provided by the statutory and commercial sectors. It is vital that people who work in the sector have the appropriate skills to meet this challenge. This book is an introduction to the processes and techniques of project management. It is designed to enable project managers in the community and voluntary sectors to work in a more efficient and more effective way. It is tailored to the requirements of the voluntary sector and is designed to be easy to understand, and to concentrate on the practicalities.

Just when the world needs it most, a new style of social engagement is emerging: Active Citizenship.
A key member of one of New York's most civic-minded families--one that has supported many of America's notable institutions and deserving programs--Jonathan Tisch has devoted a lifetime to "active citizenship." It's an idea that uses the power of practical creativity and grassroots participation to solve seemingly intractable problems. In "Citizen You," Tisch challenges readers to join this movement and points the way toward making our world a better place, one person and one neighborhood at a time.
Tisch has filled "Citizen You" with accounts of people who you'll meet, such inspirational individuals as:
Scott Harrison, who has used the networking and marketing skills he developed as a night club promoter to help over a million people in the developing world get access for the first time to clean, safe drinking water.
Steffi Coplan, whose Broadway2Broadway project brought out the hidden musical talents of kids at an inner city school.
Eric Schwarz, who decided to do something about America's under-performing schools, and parlayed a single classroom mentoring project into the nationwide Citizens Schools movement.
Chris Swan, who is training a new generation of "citizen engineers" to make sure that the projects they build aren't just structurally sound but also environmentally and socially sustainable.
Dave Nelson, who traded his role as an executive at IBM for a job at a struggling nonprofit that teaches kids about the power of entrepreneurship--and discovered a host of new challenges and rewards in the process.
Through these and many other remarkable stories, you'll learn how today's active citizens are transforming thinking about social change. Rather than short-term fixes and hand-me-down charity, they're striving to build sustainable, systemic solutions to our most challenging problems, building and empowering communities rather than fostering dependency. And they're using a host of new tools, from online networking and private-public partnerships to corporate engagement and social entrepreneurship, to redefine how change can happen. "Citizen You" is a potent antidote to pessimism. At a time of unprecedented challenges on the national and world stage, when active citizenship is not a choice but a necessity, "Citizen You" dares us to reshape the social, political, and intellectual structures that have long confined us, and offers fresh thinking that redefines the very concept of activism. For more information and ideas about how to be an active citizen go to www.citizenyou.org

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The Ancient Call: For thousands of years, in cultures around the world, when the time was right the men of the village came for the adolescent boys. The survival of their culture depended on making men out of their young males. Today, too many men are not answering this man-making call. The result is an epidemic of lost, damaged, and under-male-nourished boys. The Man-Making book is a practical and inspirational guide for men. It shows them how to awaken and apply their instinctive man-making skills in service to the young males around them. In this book, every man will find something he can do to support a boy or boys on their journey to a positive manhood.

SMART GENEROSITY is the essential and indispensable resource for donors of all ages, interests, and capacities to give that will benefit any individual, family,foundation, or corporation engaged in philanthropy. Written by Renata Rafferty -- one of the nation's most engaging experts on charity -- SMART GENEROSITY is the only book that leapfrogs the technical and philosophical focus of current books on charitable giving to offer practical advice, real-life stories, and extensive resource recommendations guaranteed to uncomplicate even the largest philanthropic gift. SMART GENEROSITY is also an excellent resource for financial and wealth advisors, and belongs on the required reading list of every certified financial planner, estate and tax planning attorney, family office executive, foundation trustee, charity leader, giving officer, and any professional who advises clients with a philanthropic interest. Its premise is simple: we should approach our philanthropic giving as thoughtfully and insightfully - and personally - as we do our financial investing. Charity guru Renata Rafferty offers guidelines, tips and information you won't find anywhere else, including: five steps to defining your philanthropic focus; four ways to assess a charity; the one question to ask before making a gift; and the ten warning signs a donor should never ignore. SMART GENEROSITY also reveals how a donor advised fund works, simplifies socially responsible investing, and offers the secret to raising a charitable child, as well as answering donors' most frequently asked questions (FAQs). Here's what others have said ... "There is no better expert on this subject than Renata Rafferty. This book is a must." -- Bill O'Reilly "This is a great little book!" - Paul Newman "All donors should follow the advice in this book." - Charity Navigator Using Renata Rafferty's book - and it is a book to be used - guarantees two results ... your charitable giving will be more effective and the organizations you support will be better served!

This book provides a brief introduction to what is variously called "faith-based," "congregation-based," and "institution-based" community organizing. Grounded in a composite case study of an actual organizing effort, it shows how local communities can be organized for power. Key organizing concepts and strategies are illustrated with stories of real encounters with leaders, communities, and powerful opposition figures.

In the approach described here, civic and religious institutions come together to give the community a collective voice. Organizers help a community build a powerful organization rooted in core values of democracy and the social justice teachings of the world's great religious traditions.

Saul Alinsky developed the foundations of the tradition of organizing described here, an approach that remains dominant in the U.S. today. Alinsky rooted power deeply in the lives, relationships and institutions of marginalized and oppressed people. In his early organizing days, his organizations brought together a wide range of institutions: religious congregations and labor unions, as well as mutual aid, self-help, athletic, sororal and fraternal, neighborhood and other voluntary associations. By the late 1970s, as non-congregational neighborhood associations fell into decline, organizers in the Alinsky tradition started looking more carefully at how to sustain the vibrancy of the religious institutions that remained. Organizers sought to help congregation members become co-creators, rather than consumers, of the life of their churches, and worked to help members connect their faith more directly to action in the world. In this way, they helped make both faith and the action more meaningful.

This little book tells the story of one congregation that was a member of a "broadly-based community organization," and how a community organizer assisted its development as a true community.

"When the World Calls" is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. Revelatory and candid, journalist Stanley Meisler's engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers' unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. In the years since, in spite of setbacks, the ethos of the Peace Corps has endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 Volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex--and valued--institutions.

While in medical school (which I did not have the privilege of completing), once a week we had a small group discussion class called Focus On Problems. Each group had a leader, a member of the medical school staff or someone closely associated with the school, usually an MD or Ph.D. Our group leader was Dean of the Medical School, H. David Wilson, MD. One class period focused on working with patients of different ethnic backgrounds. Dr. Wilson asked me what were some of the traditions of my tribe in regard to medicine that would be helpful for a doctor to know. My reply was that I had been raised like a white, that I had grown up learning about various herbal and natural remedies, but that I knew nothing about the specific medical traditions, ceremonial or secular, of my people. I had always longed to know of the traditions of my people before that, but circumstances of my family history had not allowed it. That question in the Focus On Problems class caused that longing to intensify into a sharp pang of longing that would not be satisfied until many years later. While in the first two years of medical school as a nontraditional student, I was in an environment that encouraged the development of the knowledge of Native American traditions. We had Native American speakers that came and elaborated on Native American traditions. One area that was lacking was tribal histories, not recent tribal histories, but what academics label prehistory. I remember one of the speakers sitting at my table after her presentation. I commented to her that when white man came, they did all they could to destroy our social and religious fabric, so the old traditions were not passed down to most of the remaining members of the tribes. "Now we know nothing of our old history. There is nothing left. The white side of my family history is easy to know, but not my Cherokee and Choctaw side." She replied by saying that, yes, many of our peoples have lost their old traditions, and it is sad, but there is hope because there are ways to find our prehistory and there are people working on finding our prehistory right now." Well, that was indeed good news.

Containing over 250 practical and effective fundraising ideas, this is an essential book for anyone raising money for charities, hospices, societies, churches, clubs, as well as schools and their PTA.

From the sublime (a sponsored blindfold) to the ridiculous (a fancy dress fun run), there is something for every fundraiser in this book. Covering sponsorship ideas, raffles and lotteries, collections and donations, games and activities, things to sell as well as providing many different events and themes you can organise, this indispensible guide also looks at how to use outside businesses effectively as well as social networking sites and the internet. In addition to all this, it provides a diary of awareness dates and important historical anniversaries so you can link your fundraising to national and international activities for maximum publicity.

All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to a national children's charity.

Overall, an excellent and affordable source of fundraising ideas, inspiration and advice for charities, hospices, societies, clubs, schools, PTAs and anyone wanting to raise money for a good cause.

Do you work for or serve on the board of a nonprofit that is thinking about or ready to launch a capital campaign? Capital Campaigns: Everything You NEED to Know will equip you to determine your organization's readiness for a campaign; help you decide if and when you need a planning study; show you how to allocate your human and financial resources effectively; guide you in creating a compelling case statement; provide you with the tools to evaluate your chances for success; give you how-to advice to plan every aspect of your campaign; and put at your fingertips ample examples of sample forms and charts. This is one of a series of "In the Trenches" books published by CharityChannel Press. You'll know an In the Trenches book not just by its cover, but by the author's fun, upbeat writing style. But don't be fooled by their down-to-earth approach and ample use of sidebars. In the Trenches books are authoritative and cover what a beginner should know to get started and progress rapidly, and what a more experienced nonprofit-sector practitioner needs to move forward in the subject.

Imagine! Charitable giving is a great business strategy that meets the needs of others and your business. "Small Businesses Give Big" captures the heart, values and passion of entrepreneurs and business owners through their own inspiring profiles and profound giving back stories. Each business presents the important role that philanthropy has in their success and how it serves both their own growth and those whose lives they touch. While they all have a unique way of giving back, they share a common root, the value they place on giving and their passion to stand for something that goes beyond the bottom-line. Get ready to be inspired! These community-minded businesses and socially conscious entrepreneurs share how business giving is more than just a good thing to do. It's a way of doing business that has benefits where the impact ripples far beyond what you can possibly see!