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How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas
More than 100,000 people contact the Peace Corps every year, but only 3,000 are placed overseas To help more Americans find volunteer opportunities abroad Joseph Collins, Stefano DeZerega, and Zahara Heckscher-all founders of respected volunteer organizations-have written a guide that provides all the necessary information on volunteering in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Presented in a user-friendly format that includes case studies, worksheets, and quotes from international volunteers, How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas provides college students, senior citizens, and everyone in between with information on: * How to decide if volunteering overseas is for you * How to choose the right program * What to do before and after you go abroad * Fundraising and financing * How to be an effective volunteer * Political and social contexts of Americans volunteering abroad * The Peace Corps * More than one hundred volunteer organizations .
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Support Your RV Lifestyle! An Insider's Guide to Working on the Road, 2nd Edition
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Unplugged: How to Disconnect from the Rat Race, Have an Existential Crisis, and Find Meaning and Fulfillment (Culture Tools)
The tremendous success of Po Bronson's What Should I Do With My Life and Neil Crofts's Authentic, and the resurgence of Paolo Coelho's The Alchemist indicate the inner struggle faced by many working professionals today. Unplugged explains why career breaks are necessary in our modern, technologically-driven society, and explains how to take such a break in easy to follow steps. The emerging trend of young people taking mid-career breaks calls for a book that will help them find their true path..
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Immersion Travel USA: The Best & Most Meaningful Volunteering, Living, and Learning Excursions
The first and only travel book devoted solely to immersion travel—volunteering, living, and learning trips within the United States.This book will absolutely change lives and the way you think about travel in the United States. Designed to be a resource and idea book, this guide provides practical information about immersion travel; special considerations and costs; how to plan and take vacations, sabbaticals, side trips, and more. There are chapters filled with candid, warm stories from travelers who have been there, done that. It's exciting to visit a national park, but it's a lifetime experience to live inside one for an extended period of time. Help others and enjoy yourself by biking and building homes across the country. Learn the fine art of making an authentic Windsor chair. Work as a caretaker and live in a lighthouse. Care about returning the wolf to its natural habitat in the Grand Canyon. Play in the High Sierra Mountains backpacking and camping. Immersion travel excursions are as diverse and exciting as this great country itself and the people who live here. 40 black & white photographs, 3 maps..
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The Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job Adventures: Internships, Extraordinary Experiences, Seasonal Jobs, Volunteering, Working Abroad
The Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job Adventures 3rd Edition by Michael Landes Tempted to chuck your 9-to-5 job to be a white-water rafting guide in Alaska? Always wanted to spend your summer restoring a medieval castle in the south of France? This one-of-a-kind guide contains more than 1,000 opportunities to work, play, learn, help, create, experience, and grow. This comprehensive resource for off-the-beaten-path work-and-learn adventures will introduce you to options you didn't even know existed. In this third edition, Michael Landes has extensively updated the listings to provide the most current information, and added new listings for internships, seasonal work, volunteer opportunities, and overseas jobs. Seize your life and your career path in both hands and step through the Back Door—the world awaits you..
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The Gift of Participation: A Guide to Making Informed Decisions About Volunteering for a Clinical Trial
To the millions of people who give the gift of participation in clinical trials each year; and to the rest of us who admire them for doing so.The Gift of Participation takes a fresh look at why participation in clinical research really matters. This book addresses what clinical participation means and how it helps to advance medical science. Practical information on subjects like insurance coverage, compensation, and tax ramifications for clinical research volunteers also is included. With a foreword written by Congressman Rick Boucher of Virginia, and a back cover endorsement from Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, The Gift of Participation offers a road map into a world many readers are just beginning to explore..
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World Volunteers: The World Guide to Humanitarian and Development Volunteering (World Volunteers: The World Guide to Humanitarian & Development Volu)
Fabio Ausenda has masterfully prepared three volunteer guides to help those who wish to help others. Each book lists hundreds of organizations from all over the world. A summary of each organization is detailed with a description of each program, contact information, cost, duration, how to apply, and much more.
Whether your interests lie in environmental conservation, humanitarian aid, or archaeology, these books will provide you with an abundance of options. Volunteering opportunities of all kinds are included, including short-term volunteering (one to three weeks) and long term (one month, a year, or more). One will not find guides more definitive or informative.
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Children as Volunteers: Preparing for Community Service
The only book expressly for agencies about how to incorporate children into an adult volunteer program and find creative ways to use children's fresh perspectives. Includes examples of actual volunteer projects accomplished by youngsters, models of child-adult teams and tips on family volunteering. Learn how to recruit, train and design assignments for volunteers under the age of 14. Plus, special sections discuss mandated school-based community service and legal issues..
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Make a Difference: America's Guide to Volunteering and Community Service
Do you want to become a volunteer but feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of organizations to choose from? Look no further than this revised edition of the bestselling book Make a Difference! Complied and written by Arthur Blaustein, adjunct professor of social and urban policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty advisor for its Americorps program, this guide offers valuable information for everyone inspired to give back to their communities. Make a Difference will help you find innumerable opportunities to put your expertise and talents to good use. This revised and expanded guide includes more than 185 national, nonprofit organizations that use volunteers of all ages to make a difference where it counts. Make a Difference also lists 30 organizations that give up-to-date information on critical issues and policies. Whether you want to tutor a child or an adult, promote a cause you care about, or get hands-on experience at an organization's headquarters, Make a Difference will inspire you to get out there and make a difference in your community--and your life..
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Volunteering With Your Pet: How to Get Involved in Animal-Assisted Therapy With Any Kind of Pet
Whether it's a bird, a cat, a horse, barnyard animal or traditional dog...whether it's a kindergarten class, a prisoner, a paraplegic or an AIDS patient, there are ways in which all sorts of pets can help people. This book discusses all the elements of animal-assisted therapy so that readers can learn what it takes to get involved and make a difference. Learn about therapy organizations, requirements for your pet and what to expect from this work..
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