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  • The Opportunity Equation

    How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America's Schools

    by Eric Schwarz ...
    Schwarz, founder of the groundbreaking Citizen Schools program, shares his vision for reducing inequality by pairing successful adults with low-income students.Parental wealth now predicts adult success more than at any point in the last hundred years. And yet as debates about education rage on, and wealth-based achievement gaps grow, too many people fix the blame on one of two convenient ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Mentoring Leaves No Child Behind: The Art of Mentoring

    by Christopher Handy ...
    This book is a guide to help those seeking to make a difference in the lives of a younger person, through mentoring will find this book a helpful and informative guide on their journey to become effective mentors. This book will provide a simple and effective method on how mentoring can help youths find themselves and become productive adults within the community and in life. Mentoring offers ... Read more

    $2.00 USD

  • Doing Good Without Giving Up

    Sustaining Social Action in a World That's Hard to Change

    by Benjamin Lowe ...
    12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year (Social Justice)"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." - Galatians 6:9If you're working tomake the world a better place, you might find yourself discouraged. Needs are overwhelming, resources are limited, opposition is real and progress is slow. How do we persevere when the novelty wears ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties

    by Libuse Binder ...
    WHAT KIND OF WORLD DO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN?Throwing a party. Preparing a meal. Sending an email. These are things you do all the time. How can they really make a difference? Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties shows how to transform these everyday activities into world-changing events: Throw a party with a purpose. Prepare a sustainable meal. Send an email to your representative.An ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Cathedral Within

    Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back

    by Bill Shore ...
    Bill Shore has written a wise and inspiring book that shows us how to make the most of life and do something that counts.Like the cathedral builders of an earlier time, the visionaries described in this memoir share a single desire: to create something that endures. The great cathedrals did not soar skyward because their builders discovered new materials or financial resources; rather, the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Powered by Girl

    A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists

    by Lyn Mikel Brown ...
    A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movementsDrawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing. Here we learn about the intergenerational support behind thirteen-year-old Julia ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mobilizing the Community for Better Health

    What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan

    Edited by Allan Formicola, Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero ...
    From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate access to primary care, nutritional improvement, and smoking cessation, and to broker innovative ways to access healthcare and other social services. This unlikely partnership and the relationships it ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Commitment to Caring: Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary's 100 Years, 1911-2011

    by Andrea Lister ...
    Commitment to Caring is the story of determined women, in a time before they were considered persons under the law, who fundraised, sewed, canned, and knitted to establish Chilliwack’s first hospital. In a time before medicare these women formed the Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary in 1911 and recruited their sisters-in-laws, daughters, and friends to join them in their efforts and take over for ... Read more

    $2.20 USD

  • Mother Teresa: Genie of Calcutta

    by sally warner ...

    $2.14 USD

  • Confidentiality Policy | Example

    by Gordon Owen ...
    Series series VS Governance Material Series
    Why We Have A Policy? It will seem obvious that we should not breach confidences so why have a policy when the principles are obvious? The answer is that we have developed the guidelines that form our policy to:- A. Protect staff and volunteers
 B. Protect members and Service Users
 C. Ensure consistent good practice Confidentiality is important in order to build trust with persons using ... Read more

    $1.35 USD

  • How to Be a Better Person

    by Seb Hunter ...
    Why is it so difficult to find the time to help others? When Seb Hunter became aware of a nagging ache in the place where his soul ought to be, he embarked on a two year odyssey of volunteering – with hilarious results. He collects litter, teaches pensioners how to use the internet, works at Oxfam (where he meets Gladys, his septuagenarian nemesis), mans a steam train line, becomes a star DJ on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Truth behind volunteering at Mother Teresa's

    by Sally Warner ...
    Sally spent five years over a ten year period volunteering in Mother Teresa’s homes especially in India. She met and chatted with hundreds of volunteers, locals, nuns and inmates. Now that adoptions from Mother’s homes have been stopped, 13 homes have been shut down yet Mother Teresa will become a saint on September 4 2016. This book describes a day in the life of a volunteer with in these homes ... Read more

    $2.14 USD