From Charity to Enterprise

From Charity to Enterprise
Author: Stanley Wenocur
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252070730

Addresses the question of how aspiring occupations became professions and, in particular, examines how social workers historically went about this profession-building process and with what consequences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Who Really Cares

Who Really Cares
Author: Arthur C. Brooks
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2007-12-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0465003656

We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert, spent years researching giving trends in America, and even he was surprised by what he found. In Who Really Cares, he identifies the forces behind American charity: strong families, church attendance, earning one's own income (as opposed to receiving welfare), and the belief that individuals-not government-offer the best solution to social ills. But beyond just showing us who the givers and non-givers in America really are today, Brooks shows that giving is crucial to our economic prosperity, as well as to our happiness, health, and our ability to govern ourselves as a free people.

The Profitable Charity

The Profitable Charity
Author: Aimee Minnich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2015-04-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781511646093

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day; teach him how to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime; but invest in his fishing business, and buy his product, and he'll feed his whole village." - Joe Knittig, CEO, Global Orphan Project We want to feed the hungry, take care of orphans, translate Scripture, end human trafficking, eradicate poverty, provide clean water, and share the Gospel. But there's a growing sense that charity alone isn't enough to solve the world's deepest problems. Charity is essential, but it's simply not enough. Donors and nonprofit leaders are hungry for better ways to accomplish the change they seek. Enter Ministry Enterprise. Ministry Enterprise has the power to build revenue and accelerate your organization's impact. This book provides the tools you need to get started. You'll learn:- Why traditional charity cannot be the only solution to human suffering- Why changing donor demographics are making fundraising harder, necessitating a change in how charities fund their mission- What Ministry Enterprise is, and is not- How to create sustainable revenue in a charity or nonprofit context- How others are impacting communities with Ministry Enterprisewww.ImpactFoundation.org

The Healing Organization

The Healing Organization
Author: Raj Sisodia
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814439829

The image of modern corporations has been shaped by a profits over people approach, but we are at a point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time. The Healing Organization shows how corporations can become healing forces. Conscious Capitalism pioneer Raj Sisodia and organizational innovation expert Michael J. Gelb were inspired to write this book because of the epidemic of unnecessary suffering connected with business, including the destruction of the environment; increasing numbers living paycheck-to-paycheck and barely surviving; and rising rates of depression and stress leading to chronic health problems. Based on extensive in-depth interviews and inspiring case studies, Sisodia and Gelb show how companies such as Shake Shack, Hyatt, KIND Healthy Snacks, Eileen Fisher, H-E-B, FIFCO, Jaipur Rugs and DTE Energy are healing their employees, customers, communities and other stakeholders. They represent a diverse sampling of industries and geographies, but they all have significant elements in common, besides being profitable enterprises: Their employees love coming to work. They have passionately loyal customers. They make a significant positive difference to the communities they serve. They preserve and restore the ecosystems in which they operate. The enmity and dividedness between those who champion unfettered capitalism and those who advocate socialism is exacerbating rather than solving our problems. In a world that urgently needs healing on many levels, this is a movement whose time has come. The Healing Organization shows how it can be done, how it is being done, and how you can begin to do it too.

Systems Performance

Systems Performance
Author: Brendan Gregg
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133390098

The Complete Guide to Optimizing Systems Performance Written by the winner of the 2013 LISA Award for Outstanding Achievement in System Administration Large-scale enterprise, cloud, and virtualized computing systems have introduced serious performance challenges. Now, internationally renowned performance expert Brendan Gregg has brought together proven methodologies, tools, and metrics for analyzing and tuning even the most complex environments. Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud focuses on Linux(R) and Unix(R) performance, while illuminating performance issues that are relevant to all operating systems. You'll gain deep insight into how systems work and perform, and learn methodologies for analyzing and improving system and application performance. Gregg presents examples from bare-metal systems and virtualized cloud tenants running Linux-based Ubuntu(R), Fedora(R), CentOS, and the illumos-based Joyent(R) SmartOS(TM) and OmniTI OmniOS(R). He systematically covers modern systems performance, including the "traditional" analysis of CPUs, memory, disks, and networks, and new areas including cloud computing and dynamic tracing. This book also helps you identify and fix the "unknown unknowns" of complex performance: bottlenecks that emerge from elements and interactions you were not aware of. The text concludes with a detailed case study, showing how a real cloud customer issue was analyzed from start to finish. Coverage includes - Modern performance analysis and tuning: terminology, concepts, models, methods, and techniques - Dynamic tracing techniques and tools, including examples of DTrace, SystemTap, and perf - Kernel internals: uncovering what the OS is doing - Using system observability tools, interfaces, and frameworks - Understanding and monitoring application performance - Optimizing CPUs: processors, cores, hardware threads, caches, interconnects, and kernel scheduling - Memory optimization: virtual memory, paging, swapping, memory architectures, busses, address spaces, and allocators - File system I/O, including caching - Storage devices/controllers, disk I/O workloads, RAID, and kernel I/O - Network-related performance issues: protocols, sockets, interfaces, and physical connections - Performance implications of OS and hardware-based virtualization, and new issues encountered with cloud computing - Benchmarking: getting accurate results and avoiding common mistakes This guide is indispensable for anyone who operates enterprise or cloud environments: system, network, database, and web admins; developers; and other professionals. For students and others new to optimization, it also provides exercises reflecting Gregg's extensive instructional experience.

A Once Charitable Enterprise

A Once Charitable Enterprise
Author: David Rosner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400858429

This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals from a series of community- based charitable institutions into the large, bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the Progressive era. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A Once Charitable Enterprise

A Once Charitable Enterprise
Author: David Rosner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2004-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521528627

An account of dramatic changes in hospital care in turn-of-the-century New York, first published in 1982.

The Mission-Driven Venture

The Mission-Driven Venture
Author: Marc J. Lane
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118336054

Practical guidance to maximize financial results while driving positive social change The Mission-Driven Venture provides actionable guidance for leveraging the power of the marketplace to solve the world's most vexing social problems. Written by attorney and financial advisor Marc J. Lane, a renowned thought leader and expert on entrepreneurship, social enterprises, impact investing and entrepreneurial finance, this book reaches the full spectrum of interests represented at the intersection of business and social change. Whether a social entrepreneur, impact investor, socially conscious individual, or a nonprofit or foundation leader, any reader committed to social innovation can benefit from this practical roadmap to the rapidly developing arena of social enterprise. Through real-world accounts of the journeys and successes of mission-driven ventures, Lane effectively illustrates the transformative potential of social enterprise, inspiring the reader to be an agent of change. Among the many tools offered through The Mission-Driven Venture, readers will: Find functional guidance to move from idea to reality with a step-by-step guide to designing and implementing a successful mission-driven venture Assess the benefits and challenges of the business models and entity choices available to the social entrepreneur Examine the entrepreneurial linkages between nonprofits and for-profits Recognize governance issues that can arise when mission and profit objectives clash, and discover tools for managing them Explore evolving trends and developments in financing social enterprise Discover methods and tools for measuring and reporting social impact Develop an effective strategy for achieving both financial success and meaningful social impact

The Tax Law of Unrelated Business for Nonprofit Organizations

The Tax Law of Unrelated Business for Nonprofit Organizations
Author: Bruce R. Hopkins
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2006-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471774626

The Tax Law of Unrelated Business for Nonprofit Organizations is a comprehensive guide to the tax law of unrelated businesses for tax-exempt organizations, written by the leading expert in the field.

ERM - Enterprise Risk Management

ERM - Enterprise Risk Management
Author: Jean-Paul Louisot
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118539516

A wealth of international case studies illustrating current issues and emerging best practices in enterprise risk management Despite enterprise risk management's relative newness as a recognized business discipline, the marketplace is replete with guides and references for ERM practitioners. Yet, until now, few case studies illustrating ERM in action have appeared in the literature. One reason for this is that, until recently, there were many disparate, even conflicting definitions of what, exactly ERM is and, more importantly, how organizations can use it to utmost advantage. With efforts underway, internationally, to mandate ERM and to standardize ERM standards and practices, the need has never been greater for an authoritative resource offering risk management professionals authoritative coverage of the full array of contemporary ERM issues and challenges. Written by two recognized international thought leaders in the field, ERM-Enterprise Risk Management provides that and much more. Packed with international cases studies illustrating ERM best practices applicable across all industry sectors and business models Explores contemporary issues, including quantitative and qualitative measures, as well as potential pitfalls and challenges facing today's enterprise risk managers Includes interviews with leading risk management theorists and practitioners, as well as risk managers from a variety of industries An indispensable working resource for risk management practitioners everywhere and a valuable reference for researchers, providing the latest empirical evidence and an exhaustive bibliography