Making Volunteers
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 upli...
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 upli...
