1,911円 The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist Chris F...

164円 According to Wikipedia: "The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian Church denomination that is organised in a quasi-military manner. It is well known for its social services and charitable work. The founders, William and Catherine Booth, sought to bring Christian salvation to the poor, destitu...

2,122円 The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community development. Begun from scratch in 1982, it is now a vast network of practical supports for the unemployed, the underemployed, the temporarily employed, and the homeless, popul...

645円 After a tornado ravages a small town in South Dakota, Tammy Richards, a former Marine turned schoolteacher, finds herself in a school basement, crushed under the rubble. She tells her trapped students to “follow the angels.” Succumbing to her wounds and blacking out, Tammy awakens in a hidden wor...

3,249円 Heart of the Nation traces America’s volunteer traditionーthe golden thread of American democracyーand how Presidents from Washington to Obama have called on citizens to serve neighbor and nation. From the bunker below the White House on 9/11 to villages in Africa, John Bridgeland shares his own ...

6,678円 Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade-and-a-half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. From George H. W. Bush's Thousand Points of Light to Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps to George W. Bush's faith-based initiat...

3,200円 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 h...

1,326円 What happens when you take a group of yoga students and teachers from the US half-way around the world to Nepal to experience the beauty of that amazing country and to raise awareness about the awful practice of child slavery in that part of the world? Author John P. Vourlis answers this and man...

950円 In Hoop is een geschenk vertelt bestsellerauteur Danielle Steel over haar persoonlijke ervaring als vrijwilliger in de daklozenhulpverlening van San Francisco. Via de door haar opgerichte organisatie Yo! Angel! en door 's nachts zelf de straat op te gaan gaf ze vele dak- en thuislozen weer een sp...

1,192円 Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Prize Long listed for CBC Canada Reads 2015 The Door Is Open is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir about three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in centre in Vancouver’...

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...

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 ...