Covenant House occupies a prominent place among American charitable institutions. For more than thirty years,
it has provided shelter and care for homeless youth as a faith-based social service organization. Founded in 1968 by the Rev. Bruce Ritter, Covenant House ...
In the world’s most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated
surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this book challenges the ...
Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have
increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultureslike those in rural Uganda, ...
Diversity has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting.
In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout American ...
At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly
confused and contested, this volume by leading experts on nonprofit organizations offers new ideas and frameworks for understanding the terrain that lies between the state ...
Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later
Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance, charity, cruelty prevention and social purity advocates promoted their causes through mobilization of citizen volunteer support. M.J.D. Roberts explores ...
The revised and updated edition of the go-to guide that has been an essential resource
for nonprofit administrators, managers, and business professors since 1984—retooled to address the challenges presented by today’s world.Managing a Nonprofit Organization is a classic in its ...
What organization, founded in 1948 by a passionate entrepreneur and twelve loyal team members, grew
to become one of the largest enterprises in the world? Today it has operations in over 100 countries, includes over 1 million team members, has ...