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In Everyone a Sheriff, the word "sheriff" serves as a metaphor for programs involving citizens in social control initiatives. Partnership between community members and their local police force is at……続きを見る

Do you ever wonder how much good your charitable efforts do? Have you ever stood in the checkout line and considered if “rounding up” your purchase is doing the most good possible? Do you sometimes ……続きを見る

This book takes a critical, grounded and ethnographic approach to elicit a deeper understanding of university volunteering. Anthropological theories of reciprocal gift exchange are used to re-visit ……続きを見る

Silke van Dyk und Tine Haubner analysieren die Kehrseiten des Community-Kapitalismus, diskutieren seine Bedeutung angesichts neoliberaler Krisen und fragen nach solidarischen Alternativen. Nachbarsc……続きを見る

Un libro emozionante sull’esperienza dei sanitari vaccinatori Covid-19 all’ospedale Niguarda. Aneddoti, tranche de vie, emozioni provate: una piccola antologia di “vissuti”. Una, pur modesta, memori……続きを見る

The authors describe their personal journey to serve the "poorest of the poor" in El Salvador by building homes. This book depicts how and why they got started and the many spiritual experiences the……続きを見る

本書十位口述者都是落實環保生活的慈濟志工，有人是參與三十年前的「吳尊賢社會公益講座」，聽到證嚴上人呼籲「用鼓掌的雙手做環保」，回家後就投入環保，並在鄰里間開枝散葉的「先行者」；有人是追隨先行者的腳步……続きを見る

Queste pagine hanno lo scopo di riunire in un unico documento le attività svolte dal "Centro Solidarietá Terzo Settore" 続きを見る

Across Africa today, as development activities animate novel forms of governance, new social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where work and resources are limited, volunteer pract……続きを見る

Join educator Alan as he experiences volunteer holidays living among the Santal people in traditional West Bengal villages, visits Varanasi and falls under the spell of Tagore's adherents to raise f……続きを見る

Can a single act of love have global impact? Robert Benson's answer is "yes." In 1968, his life was changed when an ordinary couple took him home from a children's shelter in California. Over the ne……続きを見る

Este libro tiene como propósito presentar una guía que sirva de ayuda y apoyo para aquellos que trabajan con voluntarios o quieran desarrollar un programa de voluntariado. También es una buena lectu……続きを見る

Finding and cultivating quality volunteers is not easy. Many organizations are looking for volunteers to help them provide services and fulfill their mission. Yet, there seems to be a scarcity when ……続きを見る

The Concise Guide to Helping Yourself by Helping Others Change: A step-by-step guide to embrace volunteering to increase the quality of your own life. It is a selfless act to give your time and effo……続きを見る

¿Te despiertas por las mañanas sintiéndote frustrado de tener que ir a trabajar? ¿Te gustaría vivir bajo tus propias reglas y dejar de tener un jefe dándote órdenes? ¿Tienes miles de ideas sobre neg……続きを見る

¿Te despiertas por las mañanas sintiéndote frustrado de tener que ir a trabajar? ¿Te gustaría vivir bajo tus propias reglas y dejar de tener un jefe dándote órdenes? ¿Tienes miles de ideas sobre neg……続きを見る

This is the first book to take an in-depth look at parkrun - the free, weekly, timed 5km run on a Saturday morning - and to examine why its participants love it so much and why it has been such an a……続きを見る

'This book couldn't be more needed right now!' Nigella Lawson 'Ruby has a uniquely vibrant and clever way of thinking' Elizabeth Day 'The antidote to all Covid angst' Kathy Lette ___________________……続きを見る

This book explores welfare politics, unemployment, and interventions in relation to the labour market from a critical psychological perspective. Using critical fieldwork and theory, the author explo……続きを見る

The long-awaited narrative history of the women who volunteered in Nova Scotia during the Second World War by award-winning journalist and author of No Place to Go. 続きを見る

A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners. Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calli……続きを見る

This book introduces social practitioners - community development workers, social workers, organisational change facilitators, social, ecological, cultural and political activists - to a phenomenolo……続きを見る

A novel investigation of pro bono marketing and the relationship between goods, exploring the complex moral dimensions of philanthropic advertising. The advertising industry may seem like one of the……続きを見る

Jóvenes procedentes de todos los ámbitos del país, de múltiples oficios, de diversos estratos sociales, son autores de este ejercicio narrativo convertido en crónicas sorprendentes, que encarnan tal……続きを見る

What leads a young lawyer to change his successful career in Madrid for a life dedicated to others in Ethiopia? For Paco Moreno, author of these moving pages, his future was well established: a grad……続きを見る

¿Cuántas veces has escuchado el término workaholic? ¿Eres de las personas que lo usa como un símbolo de orgullo? ¿Tu carrera mejora pero otros ámbitos de tu vida no se ven nada bien? Entonces sigue ……続きを見る

"Clara Barton has written this short but very entertaining, narrative of her youth." - The Book News Monthly (1907) "This work is a valuable source." -American Heroes (2008) "Indispensable for an un……続きを見る

Tre amici, un furgone e diversi sostenitori: questi gli ingredienti per un'avventura umanitaria che hanno coinvolto tre persone che un giorno, vedendo la guerra, hanno deciso di impegnarsi in prima ……続きを見る

The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond. This b……続きを見る

Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita chronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes……続きを見る