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. Ogilvie's examination of voluntarism suggests that the American ethic is essential for sustaining community life and to the future well-being of a democratic society.
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Author: Ogilvie, Robert S.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Voluntarism, Community Life, and the American Ethic
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2004-07-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780253344236
Category: Social Science : Poverty