Common Purpose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Common Purpose write by Lisbeth Schorr. This book was released on 2011-04-27. Common Purpose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were jettisoned, and less than half of them ultimately survived. As a result, these groundbreaking programs never made a dent on the national or statewide level. Lisbeth Schorr has spent the past seven years researching and identifying large-scale programs across the country that are promising to reduce, on a community- or citywide level, child abuse, school failure, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependence. From reformed social service agencies in Missouri, Michigan, and Los Angeles to "idiosyncratic" public schools in New York City, she shows how private and public bureaucracies are successfully nurturing programs that are flexible and responsive to the community, that have set clear, long-term goals, and that permit staff to exercise individual judgment in helping the disadvantaged. She shows how what works in small-scale pilot social programs can be adapted on a large scale to transform whole inner-city neighborhoods and reshape America. On the heels of the federal government's dismantling of welfare guarantees, Common Purpose offers a welcome antidote to our current sense of national despair, and concrete proof that America's social institutions can be made to work to assure that all the nation's children develop the tools to share in the American dream.
The Power of Invisible Leadership
The Power of Invisible Leadership - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of Invisible Leadership write by Gill Robinson Hickman. This book was released on 2013-02-27. The Power of Invisible Leadership available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A powerful force draws people to leadership in countless businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and social movements—we call it invisible leadership. Invisible leadership embodies situations in which dedication to a compelling and deeply held common purpose is the motivating force for leadership. Common purpose is more than a mission statement. It is a profound sense of common destiny, a life course or calling, aligned with a mission that resonates profoundly with our values and our sense of ourselves and others. This readable, research-based book shows readers how invisible leadership exists in the space between leaders and followers, artists and subjects, and purposes and people. Rather than reinforcing the idea that leadership is embodied in celebrity leaders or in gifted and charismatic individuals, the well known and highly admired authors of this insightful new book identify "charisma of purpose" as the motivating force for invisible leadership. A brief discussion of how invisible leadership impacts businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and social movements guides the reader toward an understanding of the antecedents and possibilities of this way of thinking.
The Common Rule
The Common Rule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Common Rule write by Justin Whitmel Earley. This book was released on 2023-03-14. The Common Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Habits form us more than we form them. Though we yearn for the freedom of the gospel, we remain anxious people shackled by our screens and exhausted by our routines. The answer is a rule of life that aligns our habits with our beliefs. Justin Earley provides doable, life-giving practices to find freedom and rest for your soul.
Earth in the Balance
Earth in the Balance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earth in the Balance write by Al Gore. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Earth in the Balance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Al Gore leads the charge against climate change, the world's greatest threat, in an incendiary new foreword to this timeless classic that launched his environmental career. If you want to know Gore, you need this book!
Common Purpose
Common Purpose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Common Purpose write by Andrea Durbach. This book was released on 2002-10-16. Common Purpose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is the twenty-second year of Nelson Mandela's imprisonment and a country is gripped with civil unrest. In the small, conservative town of Upington, in South Africa's Northern Cape, a black policeman is beaten to death and his body burned during a riot. Twenty-five black citizens, from teenage boys to an elderly couple, are all accused of the same crime: the murder of Lucas Sethwala, with a common purpose. After a two-year trial, the 'Upington 25' are convicted of his murder; and a year later, fourteen of them are sentenced to death.Andrea Durbach and the other members of the legal team took on the case after the twenty-five were convicted of murder. Their challenge was to persuade the Upington Supreme Court not to impose mandatory death sentences - without having been lawyers to the accused during the initial trial. They had only a matter of weeks to sort through thousands of court documents, to get to know each of the accused and, after the death sentences had been handed down, to mount an effective appeal.'A Common Purpose' tells the remarkable story of the accused, and also the story of the young white woman who became their lawyer. It tells of a country undergoing vast change and the painful process of reconciliation with a savage past. It unravels a trial of personal and political complexity that ends in the assassination of one of the defense lawyers and the eventual exile of another to Australia. And it conveys the horror and inhumanity of life on Death Row.
