Making Volunteers: Civic Life After Welfare's End

by Nina Eliasoph

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An inside look at how community service organizations really work

Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691147094

ISBN13:9780691147093

Release Date:March 2011

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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