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Find out what's normal for your nonprofit The life stage model is a powerful tool for understandingobjectivelyyour organization's current status and preparing to move it ahead to the future. In this guide, organization development consultant Judith Sharken Simon, MA, helps you understand where your organization is in its life. You'll learn about the very real challenges and problems facing your nonprofit at any given stage. Directors, board members, managers, and consultants can use this guide to: Put problems in context. Youll learn which problems are typical for your stage of development, and which ones point to potential dangers. Effectively manage transitions from one stage to the next. You'll know where you're headed, so you can bring the organization into its next stage of growth. Keep the organization on track, working at its best in any given stage. Watch for the warning signs of decline or dissolution. The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations includes the Nonprofit Life Stage Assessment (also sold separately). The Assessment allows you to plot and understand your organization's ""home stage"" and gauge your progress in seven areas of organization developmentgovernance, staff leadership, finance, administrative systems, staffing, products and services, and marketing. You'll find out how to capitalize on your organization's strengths and shore up its weaknesses. This unique guide also includes: Detailed descriptions of the five life stages, with examples of organizations at each stage; A case study showing how an organization typically moves through the stages; Opportunities and obstacles you're likely to run into; The critical events in each stage and why they're necessary for progress; Advice on what to focus on to move successfully to the next stage; Tips for handling governance, staff leadership, finance, administrative systems, staffing, products and services, and marketing; Guidance for consultants who use the Life Stage Assessment; Extensive bibliography and helpful resources. Use The Five Life Stages of Nonprofit Organizations to help you avoid unnecessary struggles and to act on opportunities to boost your organization's development..
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Brian Huot’s aim for this book is both ambitious and provocative He wants to reorient composition studies’ view of writing assessment. To accomplish this, he not only has to inspire the field to perceive assessment—generally not the most appreciated area of study—as deeply significant to theory and pedagogy, he also has to counter some common misconceptions about the history of assessment in writing.

In (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment, Huot advocates a new understanding, a more optimistic and productive one than we have seen in composition for a very long time. Assessment, as Huot points out, defines what is valued by a teacher or a society. What isn’t valued isn’t assessed; it tends to disappear from the curriculum. The dark side of this truth is what many teachers find troubling about large scale assessments, as standardized tests don’t grant attention or merit to all they should. Instead, assessment has been used as an interested social mechanism for reinscribing current power relations and class systems.

Reciprocally, Huot reminds us, one can use assessment to bring the attention of the curriculum to what we want it to value. It’s his intention to (re)articulate writing assessment as a positive, important aspect of designing, administrating and theorizing writing instruction—in a sense, returning it to its roots in early conceptions of assessment as progressive social action.

"An agenda for assessment that recognizes it as an important element for social action allows us to guard against over-privileging the values, gestures and customs of certain groups, and provides assessment with the potential to become an agent for progressive social change that highlights the improvement of educational environments and opportunities for all students."

A well-reasoned, provocative discourse on basic conceptions in the field, this book will be of significant value to scholars in writing and assessment, to writing program administrators, to readers in educational assessment, and to graduate students in rhetoric and composition..
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The theory behind Co-Counselling argues that emotional expression should be welcomed and that human beings can help each other recover from past distress by taking turns giving and receiving attention.

This accessible book offers a serious challenge to much of what is currently considered good practice in mental health services, and succeeds in developing a dialogue between co-counselling and other therapeutic approaches. It incorporates recent developments in the field and provides a comprehensive account of co-counseling theory.

Co-Counselling offers a model that has many implications for anyone struggling with emotional problems, particularly those recovering from discrimination, prejudice and oppression. It will be of great interest to counsellors and psychotherapists..
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Christianity and the Piltdown Hoax (the largest academic scandal in history) share many similarities: In both stories the information was constructed and then salted into the information stream, and, through the word of noted scholars, presented as fact, the truth. Scholars have egos and once committed to their ideas through scholarly publications, faculty meetings, and conferences, have difficulty seeing, hearing, or even appreciating an adverse view. To waver from a strongly held opinion could spell academic ruin and withdrawal of acclaim. This leads to lively debate, counter stories, and even character assassination if one side or the other is being out trumped in the symbolic mêlée. Jan Irvin (The Holy Mushroom) has captured what we might call an “anthropology of clarification” regarding whether or not mushrooms, and mind-altering substances in general, played any role in the development of not only Judaism and Christianity but the total culture in play at that time. It is now recognized in many academic communities (anthropologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists) that sufficient evidence exists of the importance of these substances, both textual and visual, to say “yes” in very large letters. It is no longer theory. The questions Irvin asks is this: “If mind-altering substances did play this major role, then how would this affect our interpretations of the Bible and the Qur’an? Would this shed light on the origins of mystical experiences and the stories, for example Abraham hearing voices and Ezekiel’s convenient visions? What would this suggest about the shamanic behavior of Jesus? What impact would this have on organized religion? These are bold questions. This is a very useful volume for those interested in the Holy Mushroom, and the politics of truth. Detailed and wonderfully illustrated; great bibliography. ~ Professor John A. Rush, Sierra College.
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The founding of the welfare state in the 1940s has been seen as the crowning achievement of modern British social history In this controversial book, however, journalist James Bartholomew argues that it has undermined the very decency and kindness that first inspired it, causing thousands of people to live in deprivation and resulting in a generation of badly educated and dependent citizens.

James Bartholomew is a leader writer and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He lives in London.

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The past two decades have seen increasing interest and developments in methods for doing high quality systematic reviews This volume provides a clear introduction to the concepts of systematic reviews, and lucidly describes the difficulties and traps to avoid. A unique feature of the manual is its description of the different methods needed for different types of health care questions: frequency of disease, prognosis, diagnosis, risk, and management. This book also provides illustrative examples and exercises for each of the sections..
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