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Social Administration
By making explicit linkages both to social work practice and to the history of management thought, covering the rapidly expanding field of nonprofit studies, and incorporating management approaches from Henri Fayol's principles to Total Quality Management, this pioneering work grounds the practice of social administration in the profession of social work and agency-based practice better than any text presently available. The book also addresses ways in which the strategic vision of social administrators can be used to build humane and lasting welfare institutions, further social justice, and confront oppression. To accomplish this task, the authors blend several perspectives: social administ...
Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India
The Nagas of Northeast India give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict have resulted in sweeping cultural and political transformations in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands, dream sharing and interpretation remain important avenues for negotiating everyday uncertainty and unpredictability. This book explores the relationship between dreams and agency through ethnographic fieldwork among the Angami Nagas. It tackles questions such as: What is dreaming? What does it mean to say ‘I had a dream’? And how do night-time dreams relate to political and social actions i...
The Commons
As diverse as the people, purposes, and organizations that compose it, the nonprofit and voluntary sector is known by many names and has emerged in numerous forms in ancient and contemporary societies. Yet the formal study of this sector is relatively new, and until now scholars have struggled along with theories and language patched together from many disciplines. In this ground-breaking book, Roger A. Lohmann offers a fresh, integrated vision of nonprofit organizations and voluntary action, providing a new way for scholars, practitioners, and the public to view and communicate about this complex and dynamic arena of human enterprise. Lohmann's idea of "the commons" encompasses the wide ran...
Breaking Even
Deals with the full scope of financial concerns in human service agencies from an administrative point of view. Intended to bridge the gap between social workers and business managers, this work not only synthesizes treatments of fund-raising and evaluation, but also shows how the various phases of financial management are related.
National Directory of Educational Programs in Gerontology
Designed to inform educators, professionals, and students about gerontology-related courses, degree programs, educational services, and training programs in 1275 institutions in the United States, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Canal Zone. Geographical arrangement. Entries include coded identifying information of institution, address, contact person, and descriptive information. College, subject indexes.
A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities
After the State and the Church, the most well organized membership system of medieval and early modern Europe was the confraternity. In cities, towns, and villages it would have been difficult for someone not to be a member of a confraternity, the recipient of its charity, or aware of its presence in the community. In A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities, Konrad Eisenbichler brings together an international group of scholars to examine confraternities from various perspectives: their origins and development, their devotional practices, their charitable activities, and their contributions to literature, music, and art. The result is a picture of confraternities as important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital. Contributors to this volume: Alyssa Abraham, Davide Adamoli, Christopher F. Black, Dominika Burdzy, David D’Andrea, Konrad Eisenbichler, Anna Esposito, Federica Francesconi, Marina Gazzini, Jonathan Glixon, Colm Lennon, William R. Levin, Murdo J. MacLeod, Nerida Newbigin, Dylan Reid, Gervase Rosser, Nicholas Terpstra, Paul Trio, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Beata Wojciechowska, and Danilo Zardin.
Archaeological Approaches to Technology
This book is designed for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level archaeology students taking courses in ancient technologies, archaeological craft production, material culture, the history of technology, archaeometry, and field methods. This text can also serve as a general introduction and a reference for archaeologists, material culture specialists in socio-cultural disciplines, and engineers/scientists interested in the backgrounds and histories of their disciplines. The study of ancient technologies, that is, the ways in which objects and materials were made and used can reveal insights into economic, social, political, and ritual realms of the past. This book summarizes the cur...
Fundraising
The Second Edition of Fundraising: Principles and Practice by best-selling author Michael Worth offers an updated comprehensive introduction to fundraising that focuses on both theory and practice. The text is designed to engage students in thinking critically about issues in fundraising and philanthropy to prepare them for careers in the nonprofit sector. Worth explores key topics like donors, annual giving programs, major gift programs, and corporate and foundation giving and campaigns. A chapter on international and global fundraising and philanthropy covers key considerations, obstacles, and strategies for managing international NGOs and global organizations, and coverage of planned giving and digital fundraising reflect important current trends.
