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Books and Bagels at the National Conference
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This year the National Conference on Volunteering and Service is featuring book clubs called Books and Bagels. These sessions will provide you with the opportunity to engage in intimate discussions with featured authors on new and relevant books for your work. As with all sessions, you must register to attend.
The book clubs include:
Citizen You: Doing Your Part to Change the World (SID #1646)
Featured Author: Jonathan Tisch
Tuesday, June 29 from 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
In Citizen You, Jonathan Tisch challenges readers to take up the mantle of social engagement by showing them how individuals are working to change the world. Tisch has filled Citizen You with accounts of people who, through small efforts, have benefited the community at large. At a time that is full of unprecedented challenges on the national and world stage, Citizen You dares us to reshape the social, political, and intellectual structures that have long confined us.
How to Educate Your Executive (SID #1632 and SID #1648)
Featured Authors: Susan Ellis, Betty Stallings, Rick Lynch & Steve McCurley
Tuesday June 29 & Wednesday June 30 from 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
A universal challenge to leaders of volunteering and service is gaining genuine, practical support from their organization’s top executives. Come to one of two early-morning discussion sessions and discover new tools for guiding your administrators into the light! Meet the authors in small groups and leave with a free copy of the booklet, “Stalking the Elusive Executive.” The
American Way to Change: How National Service and Volunteers Are Transforming America (SID #1650)
Featured Author: Shirley Sagawa
Wednesday, June 30 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
This inspirational book tells the stories of real people who have dedicated themselves to service and the nonprofit organizations that engaged them. It shows how selflessness and service have transformed lives and communities, and can address similar problems throughout the country. If you've ever struggled with a funder, friend, or policymaker who sees service as nice but not necessary, then this book is for you.
The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change (SID #1649)
Featured Author: Allison H. Fine
Wednesday, June 30 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
This groundbreaking resource offers a set of guiding principles to help nonprofit leaders navigate the transition from top-down organizations to a networked approach enabled by technology. The book contains specific strategies for implementation and secrets to success from nonprofits that have used new social media tools effectively themselves. A key element of this book is interviews with current nonprofit managers who have learned how to jump into the social media fray without a net and thrived because of it.
The book clubs include:
Citizen You: Doing Your Part to Change the World (SID #1646)
Featured Author: Jonathan Tisch
Tuesday, June 29 from 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
In Citizen You, Jonathan Tisch challenges readers to take up the mantle of social engagement by showing them how individuals are working to change the world. Tisch has filled Citizen You with accounts of people who, through small efforts, have benefited the community at large. At a time that is full of unprecedented challenges on the national and world stage, Citizen You dares us to reshape the social, political, and intellectual structures that have long confined us.
How to Educate Your Executive (SID #1632 and SID #1648)
Featured Authors: Susan Ellis, Betty Stallings, Rick Lynch & Steve McCurley
Tuesday June 29 & Wednesday June 30 from 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
A universal challenge to leaders of volunteering and service is gaining genuine, practical support from their organization’s top executives. Come to one of two early-morning discussion sessions and discover new tools for guiding your administrators into the light! Meet the authors in small groups and leave with a free copy of the booklet, “Stalking the Elusive Executive.” The
American Way to Change: How National Service and Volunteers Are Transforming America (SID #1650)
Featured Author: Shirley Sagawa
Wednesday, June 30 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
This inspirational book tells the stories of real people who have dedicated themselves to service and the nonprofit organizations that engaged them. It shows how selflessness and service have transformed lives and communities, and can address similar problems throughout the country. If you've ever struggled with a funder, friend, or policymaker who sees service as nice but not necessary, then this book is for you.
The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change (SID #1649)
Featured Author: Allison H. Fine
Wednesday, June 30 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
This groundbreaking resource offers a set of guiding principles to help nonprofit leaders navigate the transition from top-down organizations to a networked approach enabled by technology. The book contains specific strategies for implementation and secrets to success from nonprofits that have used new social media tools effectively themselves. A key element of this book is interviews with current nonprofit managers who have learned how to jump into the social media fray without a net and thrived because of it.