Volunteer Work
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Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times
$22.99 Add to cartSoul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our voices heard and our actions count. We can lead lives worthy of our convictions.
A book of inspiration and integrity, Soul of- Author: Loeb, Paul Rogat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0312595379
- Language: English
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In the Beginning Were the Women: Matriarchs, Mystics, Wise Women, and Warriors in the Hebrew Bible
$21.99 Add to cartReclaim the untold stories of women from the Hebrew Bible and reimagine scripture through their eyes. In the Beginning Were the Women offers a powerful blend of storytelling, reflection, and modern-da
- Author: McKeever-Burgett, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0827216858
- Language: English
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How Can i Serve?: Navigating Leadership and Building Communities
$19.99 Add to cartHow Can i Serve? Navigating Leadership and Building Communities
In a world craving authentic connection and impactful direction, “How Can i Serve?” redefines leadership for a new era. Drawing directly
- Author: Ait Hamza, Wadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1835563627
- Language: English
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Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement
$39.95 Add to cartPeople organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the last seventy years, reading letters written by incarcera
- Author: Marquis, Dave Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820365874
- Language: English
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Do More Good: Inspiring Lessons from Extraordinary People
$18.99 Add to cartDiscover the path to purpose, impact, and everyday leadership–through the wisdom of thirty extraordinary changemakers.
In a time when the world feels divided and overwhelming, many of us are searchin- Author: Ghosh, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888459249
- Language: English
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Ripples from the Rupununi: Dr. Aidun’s Healing Journey
$23.99 Add to cartSomewhere over the rainforest in Guyana there’s a land called the Rupununi, a creek-crossed savannah inhabited for millenia by Indigenous people of great capacity. This is where Dr. Jamshid Aidun, a P… [more below]
- Author: Cameron, Brian H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 17 2025
- ISBN10: 103833487X
- Language: English
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The Work Is the Work: Letters to a Future Activist
$22.99 Read moreThere are many ways to make a difference in our communities, many causes to organize and volunteer for. But where do we start? And how do we avoid burning out? Whether you’re just beginning the work o
- Author: Johnson, Brian C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1506493378
- Language: English
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This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project
$26.99 Add to cart2024 Weatherford Award Winner, Nonfiction
This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep presents a captivating collection of letters and artwork by people in prison that highlights the crucial work done by the- Author: Banta, Connie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000357
- Language: English
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Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartIn development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before–a decentralized and emergent forc… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Paperback)
- Author: Bornstein, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0195396332
- Language: English
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Transforming Disruption to Impact: Rethinking Volunteer Engagement for a Rapidly Changing World
$28.00 Read moreFor generations, engaging volunteers has been a vital strategy for communities to solve problems, but the events of 2020 disrupted how people work and volunteer. Unlike previous disruptions, when Amer
- Author: Bolton, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1637552866
- Language: English
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Run With Me: A story of two shelter dogs
$12.95 Add to cart- Author: Randolph, Sarah Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798991121705
- Language: English
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Firehouse Mentor: A Topical Guide to Help Develop the Next Generation of Firefighters
$16.00 Add to cartIf you’ve ever wanted to mentor others, but aren’t sure how or where to start, and who to start with, Firehouse Mentor makes it easy. This valuable guide written by two veteran firefighters offers imm
- Author: Arsenaux, Murphy, III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1950015890
- Language: English
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Where Am I Giving: A Global Adventure Exploring How to Use Your Gifts and Talents to Make a Difference
$22.00 Add to cartYour gifts connect you to a world of giving
Americans are generous with their pocketbooks, but trying to make a difference and actually making a difference are two different things. Where Am I Giving?
- Series: Where Am I?
- Author: Timmerman, Kelsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1119448123
- Language: English
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Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed
$18.00 Read moreA practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation
Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear- Author: Westley, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 07 2007
- ISBN10: 067931444X
- Language: English
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Beyond the Local Church: How Apostolic Movements Can Change the World
$21.99 Add to cart- 2016 IVP Readers’ Choice Award
Many people have given up on the church. But that doesn’t mean that they’ve given up on God or Christianity. In many cases, it was merely that local church congregations
- Author: Metcalf, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0830844368
- Language: English
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Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World
$24.99 Add to cartWith so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Since the 1930s, organizing movements for social justice in the U.S. have largely
- Author: Salvatierra, Rev Alexia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0830836616
- Language: English
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Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism
$24.95 Add to cartIn a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism–the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Bid… [more below]
- Author: Biddle, Pippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124411
- Language: English
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Freeing Congregational Mission: A Practical Vision for Companionship, Cultural Humility, and Co-Development
$28.99 Add to cartThere is a deepening crisis in mission as practiced by North American congregations. Many mission activities are more effective at satisfying church members than making a lasting difference, producin
- Author: Farrell, B. Hunter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1514000687
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
$18.99 Add to cartIn search of “the best America there ever was,” bestselling author and award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in a small Nebraska town few people pass through today–a town where Greene discover
- Author: Greene, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 006008197X
- Language: English
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work That Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back
$19.00 Add to cartAn up-and-coming visionary in the world of philanthropy and a cofounder of the effective altruism movement explains why most of our ideas about how to make a difference are wrong and presents a counte… [more below]
- Author: Macaskill, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1592409660
- Language: English
