Explore innovative fundraising strategies.Most athletic organizations—ranging from youth and junior levels to collegiate and Olympic levels—have insufficient finances to meet operational needs, requiring personnel to learn to proactively address resource deficiencies. Fundraising has become a critical strategy for bridging these financial gaps and covering essential expenses. This is particularly true in today’s financial landscape, in which the competition for fun...

Richard Leonard's Twixtujons is a collection of entertaining and poignant anecdotes chronologically structured from the Civil Rights protests of the 1960s through the educational skirmishes of the new Millennium. Twixtujons celebrates his thirty-two happy years teaching high school students and honors the one constant for all teachers throughout the years: the timeless gift of their making teenagers feel special-and safe-in their home away from home. Adults will hear the banter of teachers...

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Richard Leonards Snapshots in Prose is a collectors album of evocative tales about Jamie Lachlans coming of age in mid-20th-century New York when the city was the world of neighborhood movie palaces and black-and-white television, old people leaning on windowsills above and children playing on streets below, and teenagers sitting on stoops and car fenders, listening to rock and roll on transistor radios. Growing up on the East Side of Manhattan, Jamie was a daycare runaway and bullied firs...

Combines professional insights along with the authors own experience and insights to speculate on how believers can make sense of their Christian faith when confronted with tragedy and suffering.

Written by the best selling author of Where the Hell Is God?, this accessible volume is for everyone who wonders how to pray, everyone who wonders what happens when you pray, and everyone who wonders if God hears our prayers.

What Does It All Mean? builds on the wisdom, accessibility, and insight of popular author Richard Leonard's previous writings in this down to earth exploration of a life of faith, narrated through stories and human experience.

Refreshing stories and reflections that will assist the reader in understanding the seasons of Lent and Easter.

An accessible, engaging, and educational journey through the history, liturgy, and theology of the seven sacraments.

Why God? is a collection of stories and is divided into four parts: Church; Liturgy and Sacraments; Society; and Faith and Spirituality. Through these very personal and engaging stories, the author provides insights into the way God works through people and often unexpected places and events. These true stories speak of the power of God working in creation and through the unlikely individuals and places that we discover God’s transforming love.

In this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards outlines the links between the Gold Rush and the Civil War.Richards explains how Southerners envisioned California as a new market for slaves in the gold fields, schemed to tie California to the South via railroad, and imagined splitting off the state’s southern half for a slave state. We see how the Gold Rush influenced other regional and national squabbles, and we meet renegade New York Democrat David Broderick...

La Tétralogie de l'Anneau du Nibelung, composée de quatre opéras – L'Or du Rhin, La Walkyrie, Siegfried et Le Crépuscule des dieux – illustre une symbiose magistrale entre la musique et la dramaturgie. Écrite par Richard Wagner entre 1848 et 1874, cette œuvre monumentale se distingue par son utilisation innovante de motifs musicaux, appelés "leitmotivs", et par une complexité narrative qui explore des thèmes tels que le pouvoir, la trahison, et la quête de soi. En s'inspirant des mythes ge...