Make a Difference (eBook)

The Ultimate Volunteer Handbook

Arthur Blaustein (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
288 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-1431-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive guide to civic participation and the best opportunities for volunteering.We are proud residents of the land of the free and the home of the brave, but how often do we actually get involved and do anything to make a difference? The lifeblood of democracy is volunteering, and Make a Difference teaches readers how to get in the game and help!Volunteers are needed in record numbers. People are in trouble, and they are turning to volunteer organizations in their communities and faiths for help. Millions of Americansmiddle class, working class, professionals, and business executiveshave experienced the loss of a job, a home, or a business, small farm failure, a personal bankruptcy, or a loss of pension or retirement income. And millions more are only a layoff, illness, divorce, or accident away from falling into poverty. But YOU can help!Make a Difference is a comprehensive collection of more than two hundred community service opportunities and experiences. More than a simple resource guide, this unique handbook includes interviews, anecdotes, and commentary from the top people in nonprofit and service fields. The book ties together the strands of volunteering, community service, and civic engagement.Blaustein focuses on two critical questions: How did we get into this mess? and What can be done to turn things around? His answer to these interconnected questions is volunteering, community service, civic engagement, and citizen participation. They are good for you, vital to those being served, and healthy for your community and our country. Heres what YOU can do to help!

Autor

Arthur Blaustein is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches community development, public policy, and politics. He has served on the board of the National Endowment for the Humanities and was chair of the president’s National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.1.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 6-month • animal sanctuary • armchair adventure • books on animal sanctuaries • books on costa ricas books on • books on financial advices • books on marshall families • books on positive impacts • books on ripple effects • books on spider monkeys • books on wildlife sanctuaries • boxx • Budget • Charitable • children grow ordinary people • combines • Costa Rica • costa rican • Devin • family adventure • family's adventures • family's experience • family shared • Financial advice • Financial Planning • Grinberg • Immunizations • indiegogo • Inspire • John Marshall • johns • marshall family • marshalls • meet john • mission trip • Monkey • Nonprofit • organic farms • Organizations • orphanage • Orphans • osa wildlife • positive impact • ripple effect • scenery • Selfies • six months • Spider monkeys • taught english • Teaching English • teenage children • Thai • Thailand • Thorpe • Travel Experience • trip changed • unique aspects • unplug • Village School • volunteered • Volunteering • volunteerism • volunteer opportunities • Voluntourism • wide-open world • wife traca • Wildlife Sanctuary • world travel • Yoga • Zealand
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-1431-6 / 1510714316
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1431-1 / 9781510714311