Volunteer Work Books


The Volunteer Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Successful Organization Best Price: $12.95 Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (6/06) Richard Battle has written a guidebook...	We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do--and Why Best Price: $19.70 Community organizers spend a lot of time getting people to speak for themselves about community...	Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World & U.S. Volunteer Opportunities (Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Global Volunteer Opportunities) Best Price: $8.98 As someone who once thought that the Peace Corps was the only way to do development work...	The Healing Power of Doing Good Best Price: $11.93 A book that reflects a truth that you felt must be right - now in this book we find evidence...	Local Heroes: The Rebirth of Heroism in America Best Price: $2.00



Helping Kids Help: Organizing Successful Charitable Projects Best Price: $18.70 As a girl scout leader, I am always looking for new projects for the girls that does not involve...	Give to Live: How Giving Can Change Your Life Best Price: $13.78	How to Mobilize Church Volunteers Best Price: $6.50 I purchased a number of books on recruiting and managing volunteers, both in religious and...	The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Voluntarism Best Price: $7.99 This book focused primarily on adults who have mentored inner-city youth by providing guidance...	Mentoring High-Risk Kids Best Price: $39.87



The Social Cause Diet Best Price: $11.01 this is a remarkable anthology filled with truth, inspiration and wisdom for children and adults...	Heroes After Hours: Extraordinary Acts of Employee Volunteerism (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series) Best Price: $8.87 To compete in today's changing business world, corporations are being forced to find ways to...	Membership and Morals Best Price: $2.05 The Constitutional guarantee of free association has received disappointingly little attention...	Why the Wealthy Give Best Price: $26.89 Through a series of candid personal interviews with nearly one hundred donors, Why the Wealthy...	Philanthropy in the World's Traditions (Philanthropic Studies) Best Price: $45.00 Though voluntary association for the public good is often thought of as a peculiarly Western,...

The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference Best Price: $32.53 Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual...	The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior Best Price: $36.04 Written by four leading researchers, this book examines prosocial behavior from a new multilevel...	On the Outside Looking In: A Prison Rehabilitation Intervention that Works Best Price: $16.99	New Perspectives in Service-Learning: Research to Advnace the Field (PB) (Advances in Service-Learning Research) Best Price: $39.98 A Volume in Advances in Service-Learning Research Series Editor: Shelley H. Billig, RMC...	Kids Taking Action: Community Service Learning Projects, K-8 Best Price: $12.60 "Kids Taking Action" highlights eighteen community service learning projects from...

Visions of Charity: Volunteer Workers and Moral Community Best Price: $13.00 In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our...	Margarita: A Guatemalan Peace Corps Experience This book by Ms. Casebolt is a nasty piece of work. She slags her fellow Peace Corps volunteers...	The Doer of Good Becomes Good: A Primer on Volunteerism Best Price: $27.85	It Takes a Dream: The Story of Hadassah Best Price: $6.90 Spanning two centuries, reaching virtually every corner of the globe, the epic story of the...	Be the Difference Best Price: $11.99 Have you ever wanted to make a difference in your community but didn't have a clue as to what...

The Volunteer Revolution: Unleashing the Power of Everybody Best Price: $10.96 I think this is a great book to help build a vision at a church for increased serving. It can...	More Give to Live: How Giving Can Change Your Life Best Price: $21.25 The joy of giving enriches the giver. Here are steps anyone can take to help themselves and the...	The Universal Benefits of Volunteering: A Practical Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Volunteers, and Corporations (AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series) (The AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series) This is an incredible book for organizations that want to maximize volunteer resources.	Habitat for Humanity: Building Private Homes, Building Public Religion Best Price: $25.00 As a houseleader and committee member for a Habitat Affliate I found many of my joys and...	Community Service and Higher Learning: Explorations of the Caring Self Best Price: $22.87 This is a fantastic book from a master of qualitative research. In addition to the important...

Heaven's Kitchen: Living Religion at God's Love We Deliver (Morality and Society Series) Best Price: $15.33 What a wonderful book. Nicely written; thoughtful; and insightful. Professor Bender of Columbia...	Serve and Learn: Implementing and Evaluating Service-learning in Middle and High Schools Best Price: $19.97 This volume makes two important contributions: First, it provides a framework grounded in theory...	The Street Children of Brazil: One Woman's Remarkable Story Best Price: $7.89 I have read this book twice now. It both inspires and challenges me. The way that God breaks...	Firefighting Best Price: $11.85 I bought this book for my brother (a volunteer firefighter) for Christmas and when I received it...	Putting Faith in Neighborhood Making Cities Work through Grassroots Citizenship Best Price: $19.95 An excellent book for those interested in helping their communities. I would suggest that every...

Teenagers and Community Service: A Guide to the Issues (Contemporary Youth Issues) Best Price: $62.95 Community service is increasingly recognized as an important vehicle for promoting positive...	Service Learning: A Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Assessing Student Projects Best Price: $33.56 "There is no better way to improve student attitudes and outcomes than to blend both...	Making Community Connections: The Orton Family Foundation Community Mapping Program Best Price: $4.41 This book accompanied along with Community Geography: GIS in Action, make a great pair in...	Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Global Volunteer Opportunities Best Price: $7.49	Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society (Philanthropic Studies) Best Price: $34.95 In the United States, philanthropic activity often enabled women to create parallel power...

Philanthropy in Communities of Color (Philanthropic Studies) Best Price: $25.48	Volunteering: 101 Ways You Can Improve the World and Your Life Best Price: $0.49 The title for the book would be more accurate if it were, "Volunteering: 101 Questions You...	Volunteer with the Poor in Peru Best Price: $7.18	How to Turn Generation Me into Active Members of Your Association Best Price: $22.00 This book is packed with tremendous value. I use D'Amour's book as an idea generator and to help...	Proof Positive: Developing Significant Volunteer Recordkeeping Systems, 21st Century Edition Best Price: $16.95 21st Century Revision of a classic! The basics of a volunteer recordkeeping system: the why and...

Community Service: Encounter with Strangers Best Price: $57.75 Radest reviews the history and present practice of community service in the United States. While...	World Volunteers (3rd Edition): The World Guide to Humanitarian and Development Volunteering (World Volunteers: The World Guide to Humanitarian & Development Volu) Best Price: $14.77 What can we do to leave our mark in this world....it isn't anything we can buy, but rather what...	Our Journey Home: Rediscovering a Common Humanity Beyond Our Differences	The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840 Best Price: $25.00 Tracing the roots of women's voluntary activism in the decades following the Revolution, Boylan...	Letters from Zaire: A Peace Corps Life in Africa Best Price: $13.70

Big Impact: Big Brothers Making a Difference Best Price: $7.96 I must confess, I have not been able to read the book cover to cover because it is so touching...	Volunteers in Action Best Price: $20.00	You Can Make a Difference: Helping Others and Yourself Through Volunteering Best Price: $7.50	Men on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in Our Communities Best Price: $17.19 Men on a Mission provides the first comprehensive study of men who work and volunteer with kids...	Standards of Accounting and Financial Reporting for Voluntary Health and Welfare Organizations

Deconstructing Service-Learning: Research Exploring Context, Particpation, and Impacts (PB) (Advances in Service-Learning Research) Best Price: $45.99	Community Service and Social Responsibility in Youth Best Price: $11.12 James Youniss and Miranda Yates present a sophisticated analysis of community service's...	When Everyone's a Volunteer: The Effective Functioning of All-Volunteer Groups Best Price: $15.95 Provides an innovative framework for successfully leading an all-volunteer effort, whether...	Civic Service Worldwide: Impacts And Inquiry Best Price: $50.18	Courage Is Contagious: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things To Change The Face Of America Best Price: $5.79 I'm delighted he has written about TWO dystonia patients...but I want everyone to know that...

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