Making Volunteers: Civic Life After Welfare's End

by Nina Eliasoph

Book Overview

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"