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Bądź przy mnie zawsze volume 8
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Polish
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Sara prowadzi warsztaty teatralne dla najmłodszych. Gdy dowiaduje się, że jej była podopieczna ciężko zachorowała, postanawia zorganizować mikołajkową aukcję na leczenie dziewczynki. W końcu przed świętami ludzie chętniej otwierają serca dla innych. Dzięki zbiórce poznaje znanego sportowca, który wrócił do rodzinnego miasteczka po poważnej kontuzji. Daniel jest na życiowym zakręcie - całe życie poświęcił bieganiu i nie...
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"Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big business The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more power over education policy, global agriculture, and...
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"Kansas City publicist Darcy ventures to the Emerald Educational Trust for the job of a lifetime. Here she will help VP Glen Goodman and his team find the know-how, courage, and heart to help a charity in need for Christmas. Darcy and Glen begin to realize they have everything in common. Will a surprise revelation at the big Christmas gala put an end to their promising romance before it really has a chance to start?"--Container.
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Grant writers are by nature community changemakers. They are the 20% doing 80% of the work. They are the quiet leaders, knowing how to build teams, forge community partnerships, and develop ideas into well-planned projects.
Grant writers put heart and soul into everything they do. They work on things that matter. They want to have an impact and better their communities.
Before grant writers become, known for their craft, however, they started with...
186) Second suns: two trailblazing doctors and their quest to cure blindness, one pair of eyes at a time
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David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit...
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"Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand shows you how to turn your unique traits and experiences --especially the ones you may think are your biggest setbacks, into the tools you need to make your dreams a reality. This is not a memoir. This is the journey of how Jane, and how you can find yourself and purpose by harnessing the resilience and creativity within you to drive your own success. Sharing lessons learned, from starting a business on 14,000 dollars...
190) Bad Santa 2
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Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed, and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is 'the kid,' chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine. Mommy issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, Sunny Soke. Sunny raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior....
191) United we stand
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Describes many of the things corporations and individuals did to help, both in the United States and in other countries, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, such as donating money, blood, food, and supplies, creating memorials, and volunteering in various capacities.
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Cross country Christmas (2020 ; 83 min.): "Former classmates Lina and Max are traveling home for the holidays, until a storm hits and they have to work together to make it home in time, no matter the mode of transportation"--Container.
If I only had Christmas (2020 ; 84 min.): "Kansas City publicist Darcy ventures to the Emerald Educational Trust for the job of a lifetime, helping VP Glen Goodman and his team find the know how, courage, and heart...
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It was the happiest day of her life. Until Heather Waters was cruelly jilted at the altar. Yet now that very church is a beacon of hope for the tornado-ravaged town. With her charity mission, Heather finally comes home to High Plains and faces the man she believes betrayed her trust that day: Reverend Michael Garrison. As they work together to restore the town's faith, Heather's own heart remains in tatters. Until Michael, along with his precocious...
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Tras la estela de un sueño es la novela ganadora del Permio Vergara - El Rincón de la Novela Romántica 2018. Tres historias personales, tres sueños... Nicolás es un niño que, con solo tres años, es abandonado por su madre en la sala de urgencias de un hospital. Su sueño es curarse y encontrar unos padres que le quieran de verdad. Rafael Monclús, es el abogado de la Fundación Ángeles Olvidados, un Centro de Acogida para niños abandonados...
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Emergent strategy volume no. 4
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Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life's inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists have evolved this wisdom, but it can serve anyone working...
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Can a man be content with a piece of bread and some change tossed his way from a passerby? Today's modern welfare state expects he can. Those who control the money in our society think that giving a dollar at the train station and then appropriating a billion dollars for federal housing can cure the ails of the homeless and the poor. But the crisis of the modern welfare state is more than a crisis of government. Private charities that dispense aid...