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Voices from the voluntary sector : perspectives on leadership challenges
The voluntary sector is made up primarily of not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations that engage with social issues. Voices from the Voluntary Sector contains reasoned reflections by practitioners on some of the significant challenges faced by today's not-for-profit organizations in Canada. Broad in scope, these essays present a rich, multi-dimensional set of vignettes that as a whole express the vitality and humanity of the voluntary sector in Canada. The contributors discuss organizational and managerial challenges, social entrepreneurship, and how to foster effective global movements. The essays include a reflection on the ways that young people can find the courage to become leaders, an exploration of the absence of First Nations peoples within voluntary sector organizations, and a consideration how parental incarceration affects the life prospects of children. Voices from the Voluntary Sector is a valuable resource that addresses a wide range of concerns related to the responsiveness, character, and leadership of third sector organizations.
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Islam, charity, and activism : middle-class networks and social welfare in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen
Throughout the Middle East, Islamist charities and social welfare
organizations play a major role in addressing the socioeconomic needs of Muslim
societies, independently of the state. Through case studies of Islamic medical
clinics in Egypt, the Islamic Center Charity Society in Jordan, and the Islah
Women's Charitable Society in Yemen, Janine A. Clark examines the structure and
dynamics of moderate Islamic institutions and their social and political impact.
Questioning the widespread assumption that such organizations primarily serve the
poorer classes, Clark argues that these organizations in fact are run by and for the
middle class. Rather than the vertical recruitment or mobilization of the poor that
they are often presumed to promote, Islamic social institutions play an important
role in strengthening social networks that bind middle-class professionals,
volunteers, and clients. Ties of solidarity that develop along these horizontal
lines foster the development of new social networks and the diffusion of new
ideas.
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Saving America?
On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This action marked a key step toward institutionalizing an idea that emerged in the mid-1990s under the Clinton administration--the transfer of some social programs from government control to religious organizations. However, despite an increasingly vocal, ideologically charged national debate--a debate centered on such questions as: What are these organizations doing? How well are they doing it? Should they be supported with tax dollars?--solid answers have been few.
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Christianity and social service in modern Britain : the disinherited spirit
An elegantly written study that charts the relationship between Christianity and social service in Britain since the eighteenth century and presents a challenging new interpretation of the links between Christian decline and democratic traditions.
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The Other Philadelphia Story
For people living in U.S. cities, social services come not only from the government but increasingly also from local religious communities. Ever since the Clinton administration's welfare reform, faith-based institutions, and especially congregations, have been allowed to bid for federal funds for their programs. InThe Other Philadelphia Story, drawing on the first-ever census of congregations in any American city, Ram Cnaan and his colleagues provide an authoritative account of the functioning of congregations, their involvement in social services, and their support of other charitable organizations. An in-depth study of 1,392 congregations in Philadelphia, the book illuminates how these groups function as community hubs where members and neighbors alike gather throughout the week. Cnaan's findings show that almost every assembly of parishioners emphasizes caring for others, even if the help is modest. Thus American congregations uphold an implicit but strong norm of social responsibility and work to improve the quality of life for members and nonmembers alike. Many of the problems associated with urban life persist in the face of governmental inaction, and the burden of responsibility cannot be shouldered entirely by congregations. However, in a city such as Philadelphia, where half the residents are regular attenders of religious congregations, hopes for urban improvement are largely to be found in these local groups. Special focus is given in the book to kinds of care that often go unnoticed: volunteerism, provision of refuge, and informal assistance to community members in need. All told, Cnaan asserts, congregations are an essential component of Philadelphia's civil society. Without them, the quality of life would deteriorate immeasurably.
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Contributing Citizens
A social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.
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Household Politics
Through in-depth research from a wide variety of sources, Fahrni brings together family history, social history, and political history to look at a wide variety of Montreal families - French-speaking and English-speaking; Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish - makingHousehold Politicsa particularly unique and erudite study.
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High Ideals and Noble Intentions
The relationships between governments and the voluntary sector in Canada are long-standing and complex. Beginning with an historical overview of developments in voluntary sector-government relations from 1600 to 1930, High Ideals and Noble Intentions goes on to explore more recent events and to bring present day policy and practice into focus.
Peter R. Elson examines critical historical events in the relationship between the federal government and the voluntary sector which continue to exert their influence. He demonstrates through in-depth case studies that these events are critical to understanding contemporary voluntary sector-government relations. Elson explores the impact of the regulation of charities based on amendments to the 1930 Income War Tax Act ; the shift from citizen-based program funding to service-based contract funding in the mid-1990s; and advocacy regulation changes in the 1980s. Elson's case is strengthened by an important and timely comparison between voluntary sector and central government relations in Canada and England. This historically informed comparative analysis provides the basis for practical recommendations meant to improve the future of voluntary sector-government relations across Canada.
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A Public Charity
Using Indianapolis as its focus, this book explores the relationship
between religion and social welfare. Arising out of the Indianapolis Polis Center's
Lilly-sponsored study of religion and urban culture, the book looks at three issues:
the role of religious social services within Indianapolis's larger social welfare
support system, both public and private; the evolution of the relationship between
public and private welfare sectors; and how ideas about citizenship mediated the
delivery of social services. Noting that religious nonprofits do not figure
prominently in most studies of welfare, Mapes explores the historical roots of the
relationship between religiously affiliated social welfare and public agencies. Her
approach recognizes that local variation has been a defining feature of American
social welfare. A Public Charity aims to illuminate local trends and to relate the
situation in Indianapolis to national trends and events. Polis
Center Series on Religion and Urban Culture -- David J. Bodenhamer and Arthur E.
Farnsley II, editors
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Le SAVOIR AUTOCHTONE DANS TOUS SES ETATS
Le présent ouvrage propose une réflexion sur les formes contemporaines d'intervention sociale par des Autochtones dans un milieu autochtone.Grâce à l'exploration de sept récits de pratique recueillis auprès d'intervenants sociaux innus de la communauté d'Uashat mak Mani-Utenam, sur la Côte-Nord, l'auteure jette un éclairage singulier sur le.
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