Author: Marc Freedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: youth, new, voluntarism, urban, mentors, strangers, adult, kindness
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521652871
ISBN-13: 9780521652872

The Kindness of Strangers tells the story of a group of concerned adults who mentor inner-city youth. It describes what volunteers can do to ameliorate the conditions of young people living in poverty. It chronicles the rise of the mentoring movement and examines its wider implications for education and social policy. Based on interviews with over 300 mentors, young people, scholars, and youth workers, The Kindness of Strangers takes a hard look at mentoring and asks some critical questions: How much can mentoring really accomplish? What does it take to be a successful mentor? What makes the

Author: Joost Pauwelyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: absolutism, american, voluntarism, european, navigating, protection, international, law, optimal
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2008-11-10
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 052151682X
ISBN-13: 9780521516822

Assume, for a moment, that the necessary tools are available to induce or even force states to comply with international law. In such a state of affairs, how strongly should international law be protected? More specifically, how easy should it be to change international law? Should treaties be specifically performed or should states be given an opportunity to ’pay their way out’? In the event of states violating their commitments, what kind of back-up enforcement or sanctions should be imposed? Joost Pauwelyn uses the distinction between liability rules, property protection and ina

Author: Robert S. Ogilvie
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: philanthropic, nonprofit, studies, ethic, american, community, life, voluntarism
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-05-28
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0253344239
ISBN-13: 9780253344236

Why do people volunteer, and what motivates them to stick with it? How do local organizations create community? How does voluntary participation foster moral development in volunteers to create a better citizenry? In this fascinating study of volunteers at the Partnership for the Homeless in New York City, Robert S. Ogilvie provides bold and engaging answers to these questions. He describes how volunteer programs such as the Partnership generate ethical development in and among participants and how the Partnership’s volunteers have made it such a continued success since the early 1980s. Ogil

Authors:Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Henry Brady,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: american, politics, voluntarism, civic, equality, voice
Number of Pages: 664
Published: 1995-09-26
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0674942930
ISBN-13: 9780674942936

This book confirms the idea put forth nearly a century and a half ago by Alexis de Tocqueville, that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism--citizens’ involvement in family, work, school, and religion, as well as in their political participation as voters, campaigners, protesters, or community activists. The authors analyze civic activity as none have before. They have created an original survey of 15,000 individuals, which includes 2,500 personal interviews, that focuses on the central issues of involvement: how people come to be active, their motivations, their resource