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Cutting-edge strategies, data, and techniques from the world's foremost ePhilanthropy experts.

Giving donors the chance to participate in and contribute to the success of a charity beyond the online gift is proving to be successful for many nonprofits. Find out how to make the most of your online fundraising efforts with the expert advice found in People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities.

Featuring a Foreword by James Austin of Harvard University, this hands-on guide is filled with creative ideas, techniques, and suggestions to help readers harness the power of social networking for your charity, including:

• Getting supporters to do more than give
• Evaluating your Web site
• Blogs — an important development in fundraising
• The power of celebrity in building communities
• How to leverage an individual supporter's social network
• Online marketing to ethnic and special interest communities
• How to influence single-gift Web donors to become monthly donors
• The opportunities and challenges of multi-channel marketing
• Why ePhilanthropy succeeds — seven pillars of e-success
• Connecting with planned gift donors and prospects
• Buttons and banners on company Web sites
• Plus much more!

Based on the authors' decades of combined real-life experiences plus scores of international case studies demonstrating ePhilanthropy success stories from around the world, People to People Fundraising provides a wealth of proven, practical techniques to help you boost your organization's success. ... Read more

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Web 1.0 Mindset Waving Web 2.0 Methods
I've given this book four stars because if you want to leverage Web 2.0 methods to garner more money for your Web 1.0 "what we think best" programs, then this is the book for you.

In terms of actually creating empowered social networks where the non-profit is a facilitatator, connecting real people with micro-cash to real people with micro-needs, this book is so far back in time as to be next to useless.

Argh!This is the last gasp of the United Way/Red Cross "rip off as many as possible" so we can have our first class tickets and lifestyle and practice trickle down tax-free programs that "we the elite" decide.

There are web sites devoted to micro-connecting and micro-giving, I recommend that individuals avoid giving to any organization that does not offer open books and a complete menu of opportunities to earmark your gift for a specific need from a specific person or household.The animal and child chartities are a bit ahead of the game here, but even this can be disintermediated eventually.

I am reminded of two famous views:

"Criticize by Creating" from Machiavelo, adopted by the Flow Project.

Instead of trying to fix old systems, create new ones that displace them (paraphrase) from Buckminster Fuller.

I must disclose that recently Earth Intelligence Network sent 65 copies of its first book (the last one listed below, also free online) along with a letter of inquiry to the top foundations puporting to be addressing the ten high-level threats to humanity.We received back exactly two serious responses, six postcards blowing us off, and nothing at all from all the others.This has persuaded me that most so-called national foundations are nothing more than tax dodges and golden parachutes for a select few, and it is time we subject them to the same "open books" scrutiny that we plan for corporations and for government at all levels.

For more innovative thinking, see, among many others:
The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All
Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems
The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Integrated Fundraising - No Longer Optional
Ted Hart has created a wonderful primer on ephilanthropy and how to apply integrated fundraising strategies, including chapters from many experts from the nonprofit sector.Filled with profiles of nonprofits that have successfully implemented these techniques, this is well worth a read.I also feature some excerpts in my blog at www.nonprofitbridge.com.

Looking to firm up your web 2.0 strategy? -- read this!
There are a number of books that cover the theory, get seduced by the jargon and fall short of any helpful advice. This book isn't one of them. Thoughtfully presented with case studies and an impressive array of experts, you'll find yourself bookmarking pages and jotting down notes. I recommend this book to any NPO truly interested in effectively integrating social networking into their online marketing strategy. ... Read more

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Despite advances in modern communication and the proliferation of information, there remain areas of the world about which little is known. One such place is Somalia. The informed public is aware of a political meltdown and consequent chaos there, but few comprehend the causes of this tragic crisis. This new edition covers Somalia's origin, history, culture, and language, as well as current economic and political issues.The alphabetical arrangement of this Dictionary, with a complete chronology, list of acronyms, and in-depth bibliography provide useful information about the country in a convenient format.A vital addition to reference collections supporting undergraduate and graduate programs on Africa and the Middle East, international relations, and economics- a useful fact-filled compendium for government and public libraries, NGO's, and other special libraries ... Read more

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The primary purpose of this book is to explain the distinction, on the one hand, between indoctrination and education, and, on the other, between responsibility-subverting manipulation and mere causation. Both are elucidated by an appeal to common ground, an account of when our motivations and other springs of action are "truly our own" or "authentic." The book progresses from analyses of the sort of agency that responsibility requires and the authenticity of our motivations, together with a discussion of the relevance of these analyses to manipulation and related problems in the philosophy of education, to a defense of the thesis that responsibility from love's standpoint is of vital significance, and the implications of this thesis for what the authors deem to be legitimate goals of education and other issues in free will.

Philosophers and advanced students working in free will, moral psychology, and the philosophy of education will find this text to be extremely useful.

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Rowing down two rivers
Poems are artistic artifacts of a poet at a moment of time, which also gives colour and slant to it.A poet writing in two languages is still a single poet.However he has two rivers flowing within him.If he feels that he should take out a boat and row down one of them, the poems may be in Malay but if he choose the other, then it would be in English. The person is the same and so are the experiences and the cumulative life.Yet language does not merely colour the expression of the poems but lends its special nature and character, though not totally excluding the influences of the other.Malay is a musical language, in which the meaning is traditionally spun by the metaphors and the alliteration.The great play of poetry is in timbre of the sounds and the subtle meaning they evoke.In comparison English is more direct and practical, but lends itself to so many styles and experiments.Rowing Down Two Rivers is a collection of Muhammad Hj Salleh's original English poems, which first appeared in Times and its People, and a translation of selected works from his eight Malay books

Recommended. ... Read more

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This book contains 54 papers and invited papers presented at the second international conference on global methods conducted at the University of Texas at Arlington in 1990. The meeting was the second in a series of conferences emphasizing a group of methodologies and their application across the full spectrum of physical problems. Organizers promoted international interaction of researchers who use integral methods in one of more applications. The invited speakers addressed "real", ie nonlinear problems, and their topics included design of vehicles for minimum drag at supersonic and hypersonic speeds, conservation laws and boundary conditions in fluid mechanics, applications of supercomputers, representation theory and nonlinear systems, and numerical experiments in three dimensions for excitable media. ... Read more

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Residual soils are found in many parts of the world. Like other soils, they are used extensively in construction, being built upon and used as construction materials. Residual soils are formed when the processes of rock weathering proceed at a faster rate than the transport processes by water, gravity and wind, whereby much of the resulting soils will remain in place. The soil typically retains many of the characteristics of the parent rock. In a tropical region, residual soil layers can be very thick, sometimes extending for hundred of meters before reaching unweathered rock. 

This book has gathered state-of-the-art knowledge from a number of experienced experts working in foundation engineering in tropical residual soils. Subjects covered are: geology and formation of residual soils, site investigations, characterization and selection of parameters for foundation design, design of shallow and deep foundations which include driven piles, drilled shafts and caissons, and special topics which include design of piles in marginally-stable river banks, micro piles, Augeo pile, pile load and NDT, foundation failures and remedial works, and pile supported embankment. The book also includes a country case study on engineering geology in relation to foundation engineering in Malaysia.

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This book is work of fiction. It isa love story between teenagers who are too restless and unstable to take the right decisions at the right time. Cargo of guilt takes you to the landscape of youthful ambitions and romantic fantasies. It is full ofintrigue, deception and betrayal but extraordinary inspiring. In this story you will find how Haroon a young school boy who claims to belong to a noble tribe (GOBTA) fall in love with Safi just to drop her after finding that she belongs to a Midgaantribe. Midgaan is a culturally an outcast tribe who are not married by those who call themselves (GOBTA). But Safi couldn't understand where there are invisible walls of clan complex between two people who love each other very much. Strangely enough, Safi is no different from other girls in the school and yet she suffered terrible abuse to the extent that her boyfriend dropped her just because she is a Midgaan girl. Su'aad who had some feeling for Haroon worked out of the break in a hectic investigation to track down Safi's true clan origins. Unfortunately the split coincided at a time when Safi was pregnant. Carrying a baby rejected by its father before it was born, Safi had to face the odd situation in which fate had put her. a model for decent personality, integrity and courage, Safi won the game after two decades of struggle with life. ... Read more

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This collection focuses on the impact of the current international economic crisis and world recession on financing for developing countries.The contributors--distinguished economists, bankers, and policymakers from both the West and the Third World--analyze the various aspects of financing for development, particularly in ASEAN, and provide new insights into the roles of international finance, development banks, and multinational companies. ... Read more

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1907. The author presents this volume with the hope he has succeeded in giving a connected and intelligible sketch and one sufficient for the attainment of the chief object he had in view, that of presenting the Egyptian as he really is to the many who, whether living in Egypt or out of it, have but few imperfect opportunities of learning to understand him. ... Read more