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  • Charitable Choices

    Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era

    Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in ... Read more

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  • The Arc of Faith-Based Initiatives

    Religion’s Changing Role in Welfare Service Provision

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers an in-depth examination of a diverse range of faith-based programs implemented in three different geographical locales: family support in rural Mississippi, transitional housing in Michigan, and addiction recovery in the Pacific Northwest (Washington-Oregon). Various types of religious service providers—faith-intensive and faith-related—are carefully examined, and secular ... Read more

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  • New Ways of Doing Business

    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    In their introduction, the editors of New Ways of Doing Business assert that in retrospect, it will be apparent that today's government, that of the early years of the 21st century, 'was undergoing its most significant transformation since the decade of the 1930's when direct government-delivered services grew significantly as part of the New Deal.' This newest volume in the IBM Endowment for the ... Read more

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  • Faith, Morality, and Civil Society

    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    In this rich collection of essays, editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society. Though the level of religious expression has remained high in the United States, the shift from traditional religious beliefs to a far more individualized style of faith has led many to contend that no faith commitment, ... Read more

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  • Transforming School Culture

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    With foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFourTransforming School Culture provides a school improvement plan for leaders to overcome staff division, improve relationships, and transform toxic school cultures into healthy ones.Dr. Anthony Muhammad contends that in order to transform school culture, we must understand why teachers continue to hold on to models or beliefs contrary to those put ... Read more

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  • Diversity at Work

    The Practice of Inclusion

    Series Book 33 - J-B SIOP Professional Practice Series
    Diversity at Work: The Practice of InclusionHow can organizations, their leaders, and their people benefit from diversity? The answer, according to this cutting-edge book, is the practice of inclusion. Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion (a volume in SIOP’s Professional Practice Series) presents detailed solutions for the challenge of inclusion—how to fully connect with, engage, and ... Read more

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  • Extending Educational Reform

    From One School to Many

    In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many?Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explores ... Read more

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  • Crossing the Divide

    Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference

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    Concepts and Practices in Organizational, Community, Political, Social, and Global Change Settings

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  • Using Industrial-Organizational Psychology for the Greater Good

    Helping Those Who Help Others

    Series series SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series
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