finding hope in serving community De Pree, Max creator text cau San Francisco, Calif Jossey-Bass c1997 1997 1st ed monographic eng

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xiii, 192 p. ; 21 cm De Pree holds up nonprofits as mirrors of our greatest aspirations - places where people work for the opportunity to contribute to the common good and for the chance to realize their full human potential. He calls such organizations "movements" and challenges others to follow their example. Movements, De Pree maintains, transcend "the deceptive simplicity of a single bottom line" and set standards for leadership and service all organizations should reach for. They lead not with the power of the paycheck or with bureaucratic carrots-and-sticks but with the promise of meaningful work and lives fulfilled. For that reason, nonprofit or otherwise, they are the most successful organizations of all 1. Places of realized potential -- 2. What's a movement? -- 3. A context for service -- 4. What shall we measure? -- 5. The language of potential -- 6. Service has its roots -- 7. Attributes of vital organizations -- 8. Vision -- 9. Trust me -- 10. Why risk it? -- 11. The function of hope -- 12. Elements of a legacy -- 13. Moral purpose and active virtue Max De Pree n-us--- Voluntarism United States Nonprofit organizations United States Community development United States HN90.V64 D4 1997 361.37 P923l De Pree, Max. San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c1997 1st ed. (OCoLC)647515493 0787967432 (paperback) 9780787967437 (paperback) 0787910635 (acidfree paper) 9780787910631 (acidfree paper) 97021017 http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley044/97021017.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley037/97021017.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix06/97021017.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley044/97021017.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley037/97021017.html http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix06/97021017.html DLC 970513 20190122174342.0 36930747 eng