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How to be great at doing good : why results are what count and how smart charity can change the world / / Nick Cooney
| How to be great at doing good : why results are what count and how smart charity can change the world / / Nick Cooney |
| Autore | Cooney Nick |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina | 361.7068 |
| Soggetto topico |
Charities
Nonprofit organizations Social change |
| ISBN |
1-119-04172-4
1-119-15385-9 1-119-04224-0 |
| Classificazione | BUS074000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Schindler's Regret; Chapter 1 Why Charity?; Asking Why; The Goal of Charity; Barriers to Good; The Challenge of "Why?"; Chapter 2 Doing Good or Doing Great?; A Tale of Two Charities; Doing Good, or Doing a Lot of Good?; Chapter 3 Facing the ""Brutal Facts'' on How Much Good We Are Accomplishing; Gritting Our Teeth and Heading Down the Slope; All Charities Are Not Created Equal; Asking the Genie in the Bottle: Making Comparisons When Comparisons Seem Hard; There Are Always Big Differences Between Charities
Accepting the Fact That We Can Always Do Better It's Always Subjective, and There's No Way Around That; But Wait...Does That Mean All Theaters Are Doomed?; Chapter 4 Chasing the Bottom Line: How to Do More Good for Less Money; Defining Our Bottom Line; Doubling Down on Saving Rabbits; Where Following the Bottom Line Leads, and Why It Can Be Hard to Follow; When Following the Bottom Line Means Making Big Changes; Why We Lose Sight of the Bottom Line; Chapter 5 Why Efficiency Means Everything for Donors (and Charities, Too); Bringing It Back to the Bunnies; The Space to Be Human There Are Massive Differences Between Charities in the Same Field Coming to Grips with the Hard Facts; Chapter 6 How We Can Drive Our Favorite Charities to Succeed; The 1,500 Bottle of Soda; The Free Market and the World of Charity; Giving Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great; It's Not All Donors' Fault; Unhelpful Advice; A New Breed of Charity Advisors; Chapter 7 Our Brains Don't Want Us to Be Great at Doing Good, But We Can Outsmart Them; What Charity Looks Like on the Inside; Questioning Our Motives; Looking Out for Number One, in More Ways Than One Our Biases Try to Rule Us, and This One Is Really Bad Empathy and Evolution; More Biases and Other Mental Quirks; Defeating Our Brains and Doing as Much Good as Possible; Putting Our Self-Centeredness to Work; Chapter 8 The Advice We Are Given About Charity Is Wrong-Here's the Truth; Following Your Passion Is a Bad Idea; Being Great at What You Do Doesn't Matter Unless You're Doing the Right Thing; Not All Charity Work Is Needed or Worth Doing Right Now; We Have to Make Hard Decisions About Who to Help and Who to Ignore; Doing Good Doesn't Always Feel Good; Charity Is All About Winning Chapter 9 Moving Forward with Humility: Admitting What We Don't KnowKnowing What We Don't Know; The Wonderful World of Science; Learning How to Do Good Instead of Guessing How to Do Good; Chapter 10 Nine Steps to Greatness; 1. Get Serious; 2. Never Forget the Goal of Charity; 3. Shun Fuzzy Thinking and Feel-Good Rhetoric-They Are Self-Centered; 4. Be Aware of the Psychological Biases We All Have; 5. Be Willing to Face the Hard Facts; 6. Define and Make Decisions Around a Bottom Line; 7. Measure, Measure, Measure; 8. Give Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great 9. And Remember: Never Forget the Goal of Charity |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131309703321 |
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How to be great at doing good : why results are what count and how smart charity can change the world / / Nick Cooney
| How to be great at doing good : why results are what count and how smart charity can change the world / / Nick Cooney |
| Autore | Cooney Nick |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina | 361.7068 |
| Soggetto topico |
Charities
Nonprofit organizations Social change |
| ISBN |
1-119-04172-4
1-119-15385-9 1-119-04224-0 |
| Classificazione | BUS074000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Schindler's Regret; Chapter 1 Why Charity?; Asking Why; The Goal of Charity; Barriers to Good; The Challenge of "Why?"; Chapter 2 Doing Good or Doing Great?; A Tale of Two Charities; Doing Good, or Doing a Lot of Good?; Chapter 3 Facing the ""Brutal Facts'' on How Much Good We Are Accomplishing; Gritting Our Teeth and Heading Down the Slope; All Charities Are Not Created Equal; Asking the Genie in the Bottle: Making Comparisons When Comparisons Seem Hard; There Are Always Big Differences Between Charities
Accepting the Fact That We Can Always Do Better It's Always Subjective, and There's No Way Around That; But Wait...Does That Mean All Theaters Are Doomed?; Chapter 4 Chasing the Bottom Line: How to Do More Good for Less Money; Defining Our Bottom Line; Doubling Down on Saving Rabbits; Where Following the Bottom Line Leads, and Why It Can Be Hard to Follow; When Following the Bottom Line Means Making Big Changes; Why We Lose Sight of the Bottom Line; Chapter 5 Why Efficiency Means Everything for Donors (and Charities, Too); Bringing It Back to the Bunnies; The Space to Be Human There Are Massive Differences Between Charities in the Same Field Coming to Grips with the Hard Facts; Chapter 6 How We Can Drive Our Favorite Charities to Succeed; The 1,500 Bottle of Soda; The Free Market and the World of Charity; Giving Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great; It's Not All Donors' Fault; Unhelpful Advice; A New Breed of Charity Advisors; Chapter 7 Our Brains Don't Want Us to Be Great at Doing Good, But We Can Outsmart Them; What Charity Looks Like on the Inside; Questioning Our Motives; Looking Out for Number One, in More Ways Than One Our Biases Try to Rule Us, and This One Is Really Bad Empathy and Evolution; More Biases and Other Mental Quirks; Defeating Our Brains and Doing as Much Good as Possible; Putting Our Self-Centeredness to Work; Chapter 8 The Advice We Are Given About Charity Is Wrong-Here's the Truth; Following Your Passion Is a Bad Idea; Being Great at What You Do Doesn't Matter Unless You're Doing the Right Thing; Not All Charity Work Is Needed or Worth Doing Right Now; We Have to Make Hard Decisions About Who to Help and Who to Ignore; Doing Good Doesn't Always Feel Good; Charity Is All About Winning Chapter 9 Moving Forward with Humility: Admitting What We Don't KnowKnowing What We Don't Know; The Wonderful World of Science; Learning How to Do Good Instead of Guessing How to Do Good; Chapter 10 Nine Steps to Greatness; 1. Get Serious; 2. Never Forget the Goal of Charity; 3. Shun Fuzzy Thinking and Feel-Good Rhetoric-They Are Self-Centered; 4. Be Aware of the Psychological Biases We All Have; 5. Be Willing to Face the Hard Facts; 6. Define and Make Decisions Around a Bottom Line; 7. Measure, Measure, Measure; 8. Give Non-Profits the Incentive to Be Great 9. And Remember: Never Forget the Goal of Charity |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811760803321 |
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Cooney Nick
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| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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