Recent disasters such as the Thailand tsunami and the Pakistan earthquake have highlighted the importance of charity, yet how many of us really do give? In this surprising new book, Arthur Brooks, a leading authority on the economics of philanthropy, reveals that conservatives are actually far more compassionate than their liberal foes. "Now ...
Democrats and Republicans have two very different visions, but which one will make Americans happier?Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier than religious people. Liberals believe they are happier than conservatives and conservatives disagree. In fact, in almost every ...
For undergraduate and graduate courses in social entrepreneurship and nonprofit management. This text brings together the established pedagogy of entrepreneurship with cutting edge nonprofit and public management tools.
When Fort Sumter fell in 1861, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was an obscure clerk in Galena, Illinois, without influential friends and lacking a reputation for success. Yet within three years this man rose to command the Union armies, and just over a year later secured the defeat of the Confederacy. How can this emergence be explained? What were ...
Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade-and-a-half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. From George H. Bushs Thousand Points of Light to Bill Clintons AmeriCorps to George W. Bushs faith-based initiatives, it is undeniable that communities are looking to ...
This documented briefing discusses and illustrates the advantages of exploratory analysis over more traditional model-based analysis in the context of the weapon mix problem.
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