Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy books

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Nearly one hundred years after the Henry Street Settlement was founded, this venerable institution still serves...  Read More >>

Case studies providing guidance for the planning and implementation of new community based family planning programs....  Read More >>

Seven case studies describe the impact of technically skilled VSOs on the needs of groups and communities in developing...  Read More >>

Although much is known about the donations made by Japanese companies to causes in other countries, little is known...  Read More >>

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This leading online and looseleaf service provides detailed information and guidance on all aspects of the taxation,...  Read More >>

Addresses the concept of need and how needs can be, and are, met in western societies. This book examines different...  Read More >>

The idea of need has become politically controversial. This book is about the idea of need and the ways needs can...  Read More >>

This book offers a highly personal, detailed, and richly anecdotal history of the organization known worldwide as...  Read More >>

Administrators and directors of non-profit organizations (NPOs) face most of the same challenges and problems that...  Read More >>

President Bush's 1000 points of light, with its deemphasis on federal services, serves to flame this decades' debate...  Read More >>

Allen Jedlicka proposes a revolutionary new approach to the development problems faced by much of the world. Arguing...  Read More >>

Medicine and Money: A Study of the Role of Beneficence in Health Care Cost Containment is a frank discussion of...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1938, this is a classic muckraking account of the role of philanthropic foundations  Read More >>

This new work, edited by Kiger, a specialist in foundation history, inlcudes 146 sketches of major foundations in...  Read More >>

He stresses the impact of various government fiscal policies on charitable giving, an issue of increasing importance...  Read More >>

An assessment of the operational problems, policy problems and prospects of volunteer development organization expansion...  Read More >>

Reports on high-quality research on a wide range of governmental and nonprofit accounting issues.  Read More >>

The reasons for the success or failure of neighborhood organizing efforts have been a persistent concern of policymakers...  Read More >>

Written especially for professionals in nonprofit organizations, this is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to...  Read More >>

Discusses the many organizations in Britain and the USA which are neither legally part of the state nor permitted...  Read More >>

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""Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of...  Read More >>