Based on two symposia hosted by the Nonprofit Studies Program, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, held Oct. 24, 2003 and Apr. 16, 2004. "Campbell Public Affairs Institute, the Maxwell School of Syracuse University." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Can government build community? : lessons from the National Service Program / Leslie Lenkowsky -- Building volunteer capacity : the drivers of successful corporate and service partnerships at City Year / Peter Frumkin and Lazar Treschan -- Corporate community service programs : enhancing community capacity? / Mary Tschirhart and Lynda St. Clair -- The Volunteer Center national network : all it can be? / Jeffrey L. Brudney -- Social sector partnerships and voluntarism : what we know and still need to learn / David M. Van Slyke -- How do need, capacity, geography, and politics influence giving? / Wolfgang Bielefeld, Patrick Rooney and Kathy Steinberg -- Religion, philanthropy, service, and civic engagement in twentieth-century America / Peter Dobkin Hall -- College, social capital, and charitable giving / Eleanor Brown -- Gifts of money in America's community : what can scholarship tell practitioners? / Margaret G. Ogden -- Why do people give? / Jeffrey D. Straussman.
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