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8%OFFPeter Frumkin - Serving Country and Community: Who Benefits from National Service? - 9780674046788 - V9780674046788
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Serving Country and Community: Who Benefits from National Service?

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Description for Serving Country and Community: Who Benefits from National Service? Hardback. The United States has a long history of citizens rendering service to their communities. Examples of government-sponsored voluntary service organizations include the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Peace Corps, and Volunteers in Service to America. This title presents a study of how service shapes the lives of young people. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 chart, 17 graphs, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHB; JKS; JPQB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.

The United States has a long history of citizens rendering service to their communities. Examples of government-sponsored voluntary service organizations include the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Peace Corps, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). During the Clinton administration, the national service movement was advanced by the establishment of AmeriCorps, a large-scale national service program designed to place young people in community service positions across the country. More recently, the Obama administration has set in motion a major program expansion of AmeriCorps over the coming decade.

Many decades, billions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of volunteers after the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674046788
SKU
V9780674046788
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Peter Frumkin
Peter Frumkin is Professor of Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and Director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, both at the University of Texas at Austin. JoAnn Jastrzab is Principal Associate, Abt Associates, Inc.

Reviews for Serving Country and Community: Who Benefits from National Service?
Who benefits from AmeriCorps, Vista, and National Civilian Community Corps? Frumkin and Jastrzab make important recommendations on how to improve the programs and resolve some of the political and administrative issues which have plagued those initiatives in the past two decades.
James Youniss, Catholic University of America Serving Country and Community is the most definitive effort to date to ... Read more

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