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From internships to seasonal work to volunteer jobs and adventures abroad, this best-of-the-best guide from short-term job expert Michael Landes offers a comprehensive list of more than 1,000 life-enriching opportunities like river guiding in Alaska, restoring a medieval castle in the south of France, or contributing to a sustainable farm. Whether you'¬?re looking for a summer job, avoiding the post-college cubicle life, or trying to reinvigorate or redirect a stalled career, a short-term job adventure may be just what you need. In this fully-revised, handy-sized fourth edition, Landes has extensively updated all listings to provide the most current information, and added 150 completely new listings. Why wait and wonder? Seize your life and career path in both hands (it will take both to lift this book!) and step through the back door. The world awaits!

High tech fabric locks in color and prevents logo from fading 3.8-oz., 100% polyester long-sleeve black t-shirt Moisture-wicking and highly breathable with removable tag Classic-fit, set-in sleeves, crewneck; Sizes S-4XL Available with our volunteers appreciation design on back AND your personalization on front left chest Each shirt is individually folded and polybagged with size sticker

Introducing a backpack that will put you at the front of the pack of fandom. Carry the team with this Tennessee Volunteers Legendary Logo Backpack next time you go to work, school, the gym, or a much-needed weekend getaway. Features Team-colored design so you can rep the team in style Team logo display, in case there were any doubts where your allegiances lie Two dedicated exterior full-zip pockets so you've got plenty of room for all your stuff Interior laptop sleeve, making this a must for work and school Side mesh pockets so you can carry a little extra team spirit Adjustable straps Top handle Details Dimensions: Approximately 17 in. x 12 in. x 6 in. Volume: Approximately 20L Officially licensed Imported

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If you have ever wondered about the Peace Corps' employment tagline - "The toughest job you will ever love" we suggest you read the work, Letters from Turkey. Written in both personal letter and personal journal entry format, the author will take the reader through an intimate view of his two years in the small Turkish town of Köyceğiz, introducing along the way both friends and arch-enemies, students and fellow Peace Corps Volunteers. The work is a tribute to the resilience and determination of one person, told against the backdrop of some of Turkey's most beautiful scenery.

"I have been so wholly engrossed with my work for the last week or I should have responded sooner to your question: ‘Are you going?’ If a kind Providence and President Lincoln will permit, I am. I am Captain of as good, and true a band of patriots as ever rallied under the star spangled banner."—Rufus R. Dawes. A Full Blown Yankee of the Iron Brigade combines the personal experiences of Rufus R. Dawes with a history of the regiment in which he served. The Iron Brigade was the only all-Western brigade that fought in the eastern armies of the Union and was perhaps the most distinguished of the Federal brigades. Dawes is credited with a keen sense of observation and a fresh and vivid style. Seldom absent from the field during his entire three-and-a-half-year term, he chronicled Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chan-cellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness campaign, Cold Harbor, and the Petersburg lines. Perhaps most remarkable is the well-honed sense of humor he displayed about both the war and himself. Dawes’s sophisticated account of significant military organizations and events improves our understanding of the epic of the Civil War.

What is Virtual Volunteering? It’s work done by volunteers online, via computers, smartphones or other hand-held devices, and often from afar. More and more organizations around the world are engaging people who want to contribute their skills via the Internet. The service may be done virtually, but the volunteers are real! In The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, Jayne Cravens and Susan J. Ellis emphasize that online volunteers should be integrated into an organization’s overall strategy for involving volunteers. They maintain that the basic principles of volunteer management should apply equally to volunteers working online or onsite. Whether you’re tech-savvy or still a newbie in cyberspace, this book will show you how to lead online volunteers successfully by: · Overcoming resistance to online volunteer service and the myths surrounding it; · Designing virtual volunteering assignments, from micro-volunteering to long-term projects, from Web research to working directly with clients via the Internet; · Adding a virtual component to any volunteer’s service; · Interviewing and screening online volunteers; · Managing risk and protecting confidentiality in online interactions; · Creating online communities for volunteers; · Offering orientation and training via Internet tools; · Recruiting new volunteers successfully through the Web and social media; and · Assuring accessibility and diversity among online volunteers. Cravens and Ellis fervently believe that future volunteer management practitioners will automatically incorporate online service into community engagement, making this book the LAST virtual volunteering guidebook that anyone has to write!

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Excerpt from History of the 104th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry: From 1862 to 1865 Reminiscences of the Rebellion, with all the incidents per sonal to mvself, and not Of an historical character, carefully expunged from the work. Besides this I have tried to get as full and complete a roster of officers of the regiment and of ot'ricers and soldiers of each and everv company as is now possible. \vell knowing that this fails to give all there was of interest in the services of the lo4th, mv only apology will be that I have tried to give a full and fair account of everv incident of the regiment's historv, and that wherein I may have failed has been due to a lack of knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Do you enjoy memoirs about gritty challenges, drama, romance, and danger in remote villages of the world? This entertaining and humorous account describes the author's Peace Corps experiences in Chile from 1961-63. A much-heralded Peace Corps pioneer, Scanlon was commended personally by President Kennedy for his work. The book inspires people young and old to improve the living conditions of others and to find a career that brings them a lifetime of satisfaction. It leads the reader to another time to relive - or enjoy for the first time - life in the early 1960s. Founding Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver comments in the Foreword that "Waiting for the Snow reminds us of the enormous greatness that can happen when ordinary people do what is right and good. This is a great read ..."

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Called to Serve is for people with questions about creating and maintaining a successful nonprofit board. How can the board of a nonprofit organization work best? Now that I'm on such a board, what should I do? How can we find the best trustees? How should I think about my work for nonprofits? What kind of relationship between a board and the staff will work best? How can we organize and develop the service of busy, committed people?Internationally renowned CEO and best-selling author Max De Pree packs his many years of experience on nonprofit boards into these short letters directed to busy folks active in nonprofit life. Brief, clear, and -- above all -- useful, Called to Serve notes the marks of an effective board, lays out the proper work of boards, gives choices for structuring a nonprofit board, and covers the roles and relationships of board chairpersons, trustees, and presidents.Today there are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in America, with 109 million people working in this important sector of society. In spite of this surprising fact, very little training exists for this kind of service. Called to Serve is valuable not only because it fills this need but also because it comes from the pen of one of America's most experienced and respected business leaders.

When Jill Nelson went to work for the Washington Post's new Sunday magazine in 1986, she had plenty of misgivings. She'd been a respected freelance writer for over a decade and treasured her professional independence, but how could she turn down an opportunity most journalists would kill for, at one of the nation's premier newspapers? "Sick of committing class suicide in the name of righteousness," she took the offer, and in doing so became the new magazine's first black and first female writer simultaneously.Thus opens this provocative memoir by an exciting and entirely unpredictable new voice. Nelson's recounting of her four turbulent years at the Post leads her to deeper reflections on both her career as a journalist and her heritage as a child of the affluent black bourgeoisie, who grew up on New York's Upper West Side, attended private schools, and vacationed on Martha's Vineyard.Her struggle to fit in at the paper parallels her own inner struggle to walk "the thin line between Uncle Tomming and Mau-Mauing," and to come to terms with her complex family history and the forces that compelled her to take job at the Post. Her inability to tolerate the paper's paternalistic corporate culture, coupled with her need to resolve the conflict between her privileged background and her desire to be a true "race woman," put her at odds with many of her colleagues and superiors, and drove her to confront her own internal contradictions.

Advice on the unique challenges of managing a volunteer workforce. Volunteers provide vital services to millions of people each year. However, because of their work?s special nature, they?re one of the most challenging work forces to manage and retain. Lipp has managed these workers for over 20 years and shares his experience in recruiting, balancing paid and volunteer staff, creating schedules that work, addressing the transient nature of volunteers, motivation, and retention. ?Expert author in the field ?There is a growing need for volunteer workers as budgets are cut ?Most current book on the subject ?Clear, jargon-free text full of anecdotes and step-by-step advice

Adapt to the changing world of volunteer management.More than ever, today's volunteers work online, need flexible hours, and want to play a role in defining their jobs. They also want to feel a sense of responsibility for your organization's overall mission. Harness this passion and potential--with results that uplift your goals and enable your volunteers.Includes: A profile of the 21st century volunteer. The seven deadly sins of recruiting volunteers. Framing your recruitment message to Boomers, Gen X, and Gen Y. The three levels of motivation. The six rules of empowerment. Tons of resources! You get ministry job descriptions, applications, and interview questions; activities, icebreakers, and team-builders for volunteer meetings; community-building activities; tips for board retreats and planning sessions; and more!

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Complementing the Benning Experiment volume, this study describes the work of the Fort Ord Training Center in developing and promoting the concept of a modern volunteer Army through the practical application of policies developed in Washington.

In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by identifying it as a process of ‘containing trauma’. Broad in its scope and detailed in its research, the book analyses the work of nurses from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the United States of America. It draws on highly personal writings: letters and diaries drawn from archives and libraries throughout the world. This wide-ranging book explores a range of treatment scenarios, from the Western and Eastern Fronts to the Eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and India. It considers both the efforts of nurses to provide physical, emotional and moral containment to their patients, and the work they did to maintain their own physical and emotional integrity.