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10 Online Resources Every Non-Profit Should Be Using Non-profits and charitable causes have been quick to take hold of the benefits that social media has to offer. In order for an awareness- or fund-raising campaign to be successful online, organizations must set clear, measurable goals. Not all of these resources will be useful to all non-profits, but if your goals include raising funds, finding support and recruiting volunteers, this is an invaluable cheat-sheet for the best resources online. Zippos Circus Comes To The Durham Zippos Circus is coming to Durham we are horrified that the Dalton Park Shopping center is letting Zippos Animal Circus to use there land Please Email Dalton Park Shopping center ask them NOT to Allow Zippos Animal Circus to use there land atyourservice@dalton-park.co.uk Sample Letter

Zero-Friction Free Online Mind Mapping Software - Mind Map in the cloud Capture ideas at the speed of thought – using a mind map maker designed to help you focus on your ideas and remove all the distractions while mindmapping. Create unlimited mind maps for free, and store them in the cloud. Your mind maps are available everywhere, instantly, from any device. Brainstorm, create presentations and document outlines with mind maps, and publish your ideas online and to social networks. Get Started Why use MindMup? Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% It’s no use pretending that what has obviously happened has not in fact happened. The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent. Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent.

100 sites de Consommation Collaborative Hi all The accorderies boost barter and mutual assistance If the crisis brings a lot of gloom since 2008 She was able to influence our patterns of consumption in a very positive way. Indeed, the consumer has been able to adapt to a new context: he had to be smarter and also realized that the union makes the force! Collaborative consumption and mutual assistance have changed the deal. If goods are exchanged very easily, Thanks to Internet, it today is the turn of services. Recommended Reading on Radical Social Work The Social Work Business, John Harris (2003) Routledge, London. Many social workers are uneasy about the transformation of the organisational culture in which they work which has been driven by business thinking. This book puts the concept of the 'bureau-professional' in its historical context, as part of the old democratic-welfare-capitalism. It shows how the social work role has moved from this conception, through Seebohm reorganisation, to Thatcher's onslaughts on the welfare state and New Labour's cementing of the Social Work Business. This book provides a radical reappraisal of the far-reaching changes the profession has undergone. Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State, Chris Jones and Tony Novak (1999) Routledge, London.

Answer: What is Radical Social Work? Radical social work aims to: *support social work that is informed by a class analysis. *support social work that strives to reduce poverty and inequality of income and wealth. *assert that social work aims to improve people's lives not only by helping individuals and families but also by striving for structural change. Interview: Michael Lavalette, co-founder of the radical Social Work Action Network It's no surprise that, with the current crisis in social work, Michael Lavalette's desk at Liverpool Hope University is cluttered with papers. The associate professor in social work and social justice at the university is also a founder of the Social Work Action Network (Swan), a radical social work action group that brings together academics, service users, social workers and students. It was formed four years ago, he says, to draw a line in the sand and to express concern that social work was turning into a business, subject to internal markets and business principles that were clashing with the values of the profession. "Across the country, social workers are deeply concerned," Lavalette says. "They embody a set of values, and they feel that statutory social work simply does not allow them to do it.

History of the Russell Sage Foundation One of the oldest American foundations, the Russell Sage Foundation was established in 1907 for "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States" by a gift of $10 million from Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828–1918), widow of railroad magnate and financier Russell Sage. Mrs. Sage directed the foundation to pursue its mission through a broad set of activities, including "research, publication, education, the establishment and maintenance of charitable or benevolent activities, agencies and institutions, and the aid of any such activities, agencies, or institutions already in existence." Letter of Gift To the Trustees of Russell Sage Foundation:I have transferred to Russell Sage Foundation...a fund, the principal of which...shall be held, and the income thereof applied to the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States of America....The scope of the Foundation is not only national but is broad.

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