Community Champions

Community Champions
Author: Hannah Reid
Publisher: IIED
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2010
Genre: Climatic changes
ISBN: 1843697998

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Raising Tomorrow's Champions

Raising Tomorrow's Champions
Author: Paul Tukey
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-03-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578816920

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Ask most of the millions of pre-teen soccer-playing girls in America if they plan to make the U.S. Women's National Team someday and the answer for them - and most of their parents - will be a resounding "Yes!" Among the most successful international teams in any sport in the past three decades, the USNWT has emerged as a collective cultural icon, with its individual members redrafting the very definition of female across the globe. With the lines blurring between male and female behavior, girls are competing ferociously and celebrating wildly without apology. Women are demanding gender and racial equity, while dressing and speaking authentically, and loving however and whomever they choose. The reality is that making the National Team is about as likely as winning the lottery. Of the tens of millions of soccer players since the team was formed in 1985, fewer than 250 women have ever made it to the highest level as of 2020. In Raising Tomorrow's Champions, one of those players, 16-year professional Joanna Lohman, joins current soccer dad and 40-year journalist Paul Tukey to share the team members' stories, from the early pioneers like Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain and Mia Hamm, who are now parents themselves, to modern-day household names like Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. For a true picture of what makes these women champions, Joanna and Paul also talked to their parents, coaches and teammates. The result of this unprecedented access to the National Team is an intimately revealing portrait of what it takes to make it to the top, not just in soccer, but in life. Not every child will make the most elite team, but the choices they - and their families - make in the face of challenge and adversity may define their childhood, their high school experiences, their college options, and their path forward in life. Not every child will necessarily even play soccer, but the lessons shared within Raising Tomorrow's Champions can help him or her become accomplished, authentic, and satisfied adults no matter what path they choose.

Handbook of Community Management

Handbook of Community Management
Author: Stan Garfield
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110673827

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This series presents and discusses new and innovative approaches to knowledge sharing used by organizational management in all fields of work. The authors provide critical analysis of issues and present solutions to selected knowledge leadership challenges in all workplace environments. It thereby contributes to improvements in knowledge management, knowledge services, knowledge strategy development, and knowledge sharing within the organization.

Social Inclusion and Usability of ICT-enabled Services.

Social Inclusion and Usability of ICT-enabled Services.
Author: Jyoti Choudrie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317387791

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Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services is a cutting-edge research book written for researchers, students, academics, technology experts, activists and policy makers. The book explores a wide range of issues concerning innovative ICT-enabled digital services, their usability and their consequent role in social inclusion, It includes the impacts of the use of ICT-enabled digital services on individuals, organisations, governments and society, and offers a theoretically informed and empirically rich account of the socio-technical, management and policy aspects of social inclusion and innovative ICT-enabled digital services. This publication offers insights from the perspectives of Information Systems, Media and Communications, Management and Social Policy, drawing on research from these disciplines to inform readers on diverse aspects of social inclusion and usability of innovative ICT-enabled digital services. The originality of this book lies in the combination of socio-technical, management and policy perspectives offered by the contributors, and integrated by the editors, as well as in the interdisciplinary and both theoretically framed and empirically rich features of the various chapters of the book. While providing a timely account of existing evidence and debates in the field of social inclusion and technology usability, this book will also offer some original insights into what practitioners, experts and researchers are to expect in the near future to be the emerging issues and agendas concerning the role of technology usability in social inclusion and the emerging forms and attributes of the latter. Through a collection of high quality, peer reviewed papers; Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services will enhance knowledge of social inclusion and usability of innovative ICT-enabled digital services and applications at a diverse level.

Turning the Tide on Poverty

Turning the Tide on Poverty
Author: Lionel J. Beaulieu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351623427

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This book highlights the experiences of 14 high poverty communities in the rural South that accepted the invitation to be part of the Turning the Tide on Poverty (Tide) initiative. While history would suggest that impoverished places have limited capacity to make good things happen, Tide demonstrated otherwise. This volume is a testament to the positive work that can be realized when people from all walks of life are accorded the opportunity to discuss, deliberate, and act on strategies designed to improve the lives of rural people and places in the South. The message is clear: when local residents are provided a safe space to weigh in on local issues and asked to give respectful consideration to the views of others in their community, they create pathways for spurring positive changes. Simply put, civic engagement propels people to do more for their community and instils in them a sense of hope for what can be accomplished when local people work together. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Community Development.

Essentials of Human Resource Management

Essentials of Human Resource Management
Author: Shaun Tyson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2012-06-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136405291

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Designed for all managers or potential managers seeking to acquire knowledge, skills and techniques for the management of people at work, this text combines a commentary on organisational behaviour with an explanation of HRM techniques.

Ethical Transformations for a Sustainable Future

Ethical Transformations for a Sustainable Future
Author: Deva Temple
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351311395

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It has become increasingly apparent that humanity's complex social, political, and economic systems are incompatible with the finite capacity of the Earth to replenish resources and absorb wastes. If the planet is to continue to be habitable for the myriad web of other creatures that make life possible, humans must transform their systems so that they are aligned with natural systems. One thing is sure it will not be Nature's laws, the delicate interdependence that characterizes Earth's ecosystems, that change. The change must begin within each person, and from there permeate throughout our social, political, and economic structures. The contributors to this volume believe that such transformations are urgently needed and possible, and they offer specific examples. They suggest solutions that call for new perspectives in our ethics, beliefs, traditions, economy, business, gender relations, education, and technology. They show that human beings have the power to implement changes in all natural and social environments. The chapters in this book have been organized around three keywords: Reconnecting, Reframing, and Rethinking. The contributors argue that we need to reconnect with the Earth and nature, as well as with each other and parts of ourselves that we have ignored for too long. We need to reframe the way in which people prioritize choices in the economy, the way we do business and pursue development; and we need to rethink the mission of education and the roles of technology.

Ethical Transformations for a Sustainable Future

Ethical Transformations for a Sustainable Future
Author: Olivier Urbain
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2011-12-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1412844355

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It has become increasingly apparent that humanity’s complex social, political, and economic systems are incompatible with the finite capacity of the Earth to replenish resources and absorb wastes. If the planet is to continue to be habitable for the myriad web of other creatures that make life possible, humans must transform their systems so that they are aligned with natural systems. One thing is sure—it will not be Nature’s laws, the delicate interdependence that characterizes Earth’s ecosystems, that change. The change must begin within each person, and from there permeate throughout our social, political, and economic structures. The contributors to this volume believe that such transformations are urgently needed and possible, and they offer specific examples. They suggest solutions that call for new perspectives in our ethics, beliefs, traditions, economy, business, gender relations, education, and technology. They show that human beings have the power to implement changes in all natural and social environments. The chapters in this book have been organized around three keywords: Reconnecting, Reframing, and Rethinking. The contributors argue that we need to reconnect with the Earth and nature, as well as with each other and parts of ourselves that we have ignored for too long. We need to reframe the way in which people prioritize choices in the economy, the way we do business and pursue development; and we need to rethink the mission of education and the roles of technology.

Networked Communities: Strategies for Digital Collaboration

Networked Communities: Strategies for Digital Collaboration
Author: Albert, Sylvie
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 159904773X

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Provides an understanding of best practices in building sustainable collaboration in intelligent community development.

Smarten Up

Smarten Up
Author: S. Albert
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412006678

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Smarten Up is a guide for communities who need to understand how to take advantage of the new online economy. It provides the reader with a clearer understanding of telecommunication infrastructure, online applications, strategies for implementation, and the regulatory environment. It is a guide written in easy to understand terminology for new leaders of telecommunication or networking projects, municipal councils, stakeholders in the education and healthcare fields, economic development practitioners, libraries, social service organizations, or students of community development strategic planning. Smarten Up explains how communities can create partnerships between public and private sector organizations to improve local or regional telecommunication infrastructure, develop new online applications that can improve quality of life and create synergy between organizations, and develop a business plan for creating a smart community.