Leadership Development Directory
A Guide to Grants for Individuals in Need (Specialist funding guides)
The Single Regeneration Budget
Edwin Rogers Embree Edwin Rogers Embree (Philanthropic & Nonprofit Studies)
by Alfred Perkins
One of the most influential philanthropists of the early 20th century, Edwin Rogers Embree was the scion of generations of abolitionists and integrationists. He ably served the Rockefeller Foundation and when Julius Rosenwald created a foundation for his philanthropic activity, he called on Embree to be its head. The Rosenwald Fund is best known for constructing more than 5,300 schools for rural black communities in the South. In the 1940s, Embree became more personally engaged with race relatio...
Fundraising for Social Change (Kim Klein's Fundraising, #37) (Kim Klein's Chardon Press)
by Kim Klein
Fundraising for Social Change provides organizations that have budgets of less than $1 million (including much less than that) with the information they need to establish, maintain and expand a successful community-based fundraising program. Part of the new Kim Klein's Chardon Press Series from Jossey-Bass which focuses on providing fundraising and organizational development tools for community-based and social change organizations.
For Mutual Benefit
A remarkable true story of adventure and altruism. Emma Outteridge was born into the America's Cup world and spent her twenties running Louis Vuitton's international sailing hospitality programme. While rubbing shoulders with celebrity athletes and billionaire sponsors had its charms, over time Emma craved something more. In 2009, aged 25, she moved to St Paul KAASO, a primary school for orphans in Uganda, naively intent on giving back and 'saving the world'. However, this is not a story of sc...
How to Become an Investor in People
Faiths, Public Policy and Civil Society: Problems, Policies, Controversies
by Adam Dinham
National Guide to Funding for Information Technology (National Guide to Funding for Information Technology)
Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
by Professor of Political Science Ken Menkhaus
The non-profit sector plays a significant role in the American economy and civic life. However, until recently it was rarely accorded a place in undergraduate course offerings. This textbook is designed explicitly for courses devoted to the study of philanthropy and the non-profit sector.
Almshouses, by which religious institutions offer shelter to needy elderly people, come in a variety of architectural styles and often have interesting features, including coats of arms, clock-towers and sundials, and many have chapels and gardens. It was during the early Middle Ages that almshouses were first established to offer shelter to the needy and the elderly, with the first recorded in York around A.D. 990. Founded upon principles of Christian charity, and linked either to religious in...