1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456631303321

Autore

Pallotta Dan

Titolo

Uncharitable [[electronic resource] ] : how restraints on nonprofits undermine their potential / / Dan Pallotta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Medford, Mass., : Tufts University Press

Lebanon, NH, : University Press of New England, c2008

ISBN

1-282-47283-6

9786612472831

1-58465-811-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Civil society : historical and contemporary perspectives

Disciplina

338.7/4

Soggetti

Nonprofit organizations - Government policy

Charity organization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-303) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Advance Praise; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Morality of Outcomes; Nonprofit Ideology; A Model of Christian Charity; Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Foundations of Our Misconstruction; Economic Apartheid; The First Error; The Second Error; The Third Error; The Fourth Error; The Fifth Error; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Stop Asking This Question; Efficiency Measures - The Puritan Guard; Efficiency Measures Miss the Point; Efficiency Measures Don't Measure Efficiency; Efficiency Measures are Unjust; Overhead is a Fiction; Summary; New Questions and a Very Large Assessment Apparatus

Chapter 4: CourageA Cold World?; Strategic Plan; Reclaiming Our Dreams; Acknowledgments; Case Study - Pallotta TeamWorks; Methods and Controversy; Collapse of the Company; Impact on Organizations' AIDS and Breast Cancer Fundraising; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

A courageous call to free charity from its ideological and economic constraints



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557425503321

Autore

Cai Wei

Titolo

Green Technologies for Production Processes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Soggetti

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on original research works about Green Technologies for Production Processes, including discrete production processes and process production processes, from various aspects that tackle product, process, and system issues in production. The aim is to report the state-of-the-art on relevant research topics and highlight the barriers, challenges, and opportunities we are facing. This book includes 22 research papers and involves energy-saving and waste reduction in production processes, design and manufacturing of green products, low carbon manufacturing and remanufacturing, management and policy for sustainable production, technologies of mitigating CO2 emissions, and other green technologies.