297円 David Campbell's personal and professional life changed course in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004. A chance remark to a friend about the tragedy led his companion to reveal that he had dined, just a week prior to the tsunami, on a hotel patio where everyone had been kill...

1,179円 June Callwood is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This high-interest, low-vocabulary biography is ideal for English as a Second Language or adult ...

1,326円 Many of us feel helpless when faced with the seemingly endless pain and poverty in the world. We are paralysed by the immensity of the problem, thinking, What can I possibly do? Yet sometimes the smallest actions have the biggest consequences. There are people among us who devote themselves to im...

2,652円 "Desde el trabajo voluntario de un individuo hasta las iniciativas filantrópicas empresariales de gran alcance, la generosidad de los mexicanos tiene el potencial de aliviar las grandes carencias de nuestra sociedad. Contar con información sólida que nos permita comprender la naturaleza, dinámica...

1,010円 This eBook is designed to provide an important reminder for all organisations (although focused on new small, and emerging groups), to maintain good financial bookkeep as part of its overall organisational operation. This eBook edition purely provides screen shots of each of the five main spre...

5,173円 Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify what helped or hindered the reestablishment of t...

3,317円 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 minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually hig...

7,464円 Despite claims that young people today don’t care about the world they live in and don’t get involved in causes, more and more teens are taking up the fight for things they truly believe in. In fact, there are more than 10,000 members nationwide for the Youth Rights Movement and more than 50,000 ...

0円 Auf Grundlage einer Onlinebefragung sowie Interviews mit Stiftungsexpertinnen und -experten untersucht die Studie freiwilliges Engagement in deutschen Stiftungen. Die überwiegende Mehrzahl der deutschen Stiftungen arbeitet mit Freiwilligen zusammen. Aber was sind die Beweggründe dafür? Welche Bed...

0円 Bürgerschaftliches Engagement ist erst seit Kurzem als Stiftungszweck anerkannt, für viele Stiftungen jedoch seit jeher ein zentrales Betätigungsfeld. Stiftungen stellen an vielen Orten Ressourcen bereit, die es den Bürgern erlauben, eine eigenständige und unabhängige Position gegenüber Politik u...

0円 Die vom Institut für Genossenschaftswesen der Universität Münster in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen erarbeitete und 2009 veröffentlichte KurzStudie "Stiftungskooperationen in Deutschland" ist die erste Untersuchung zum Thema anhand einer schriftlichen Befragung von Stif...

2,784円 A new life running a high country sheep station in New Zealand. Christine Fernyhough is well known as a leading Auckland philanthropist, having set up Books in Homes and then the Gifted Kids Programme for high achieving children in low decile schools. In 2003 she was a recent widow when she spie...