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Gifts of time and money : the role of charity in America's communities /

Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade and a half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. What mobilizes giving and volunteering? What can policymakers and nonprofit managers do to change the current landscape i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brooks, Arthur C., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Can government build community? : lessons from the National Service Program / Leslie Lenkowsky
  • 3. Building volunteer capacity : the drivers of successful corporate and service partnerships at City Year / Peter Frumkin and Lazar Treschan
  • 4. Corporate community service programs : enhancing community capacity? / Mary Tschirhart and Lynda St. Clair
  • 5. The Volunteer Center national network : all it can be? / Jeffrey L. Brudney
  • 6. Social sector partnerships and voluntarism : what we know and still need to learn / David M. Van Slyke
  • 7. How do need, capacity, geography, and politics influence giving? / Wolfgang Bielefeld, Patrick Rooney and Kathy Steinberg
  • 8. Religion, philanthropy, service, and civic engagement in twentieth-century America / Peter Dobkin Hall
  • 9. College, social capital, and charitable giving / Eleanor Brown
  • 10. Gifts of money in America's community : what can scholarship tell practitioners? / Margaret G. Ogden.
  • 11. Why do people give? / Jeffrey D. Straussman.