Gifts of Time and Money The Role of Charity in America's Communities

by Brooks, Arthur C.; Bielefeld, Wolfgang; Brown, Eleanor; Brudney, Jeffrey L.; Frumkin, Peter; Hall, Peter Dobkin; Lenkowsky, Leslie; Ogden, Margaret G.; Rooney, Patrick; Clair, Lynda St.; Steinberg, Kathy; Straussman, Jeffrey D.; Treschan, Lazar; Tschirhar

• ISBN13: 9780742545052
• ISBN10: 0742545059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-26
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade and a half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. From George H. Bush's Thousand Points of Light to Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps to George W. Bush's faith-based initiatives, it is undeniable that communities are looking to increase their levels of charity and voluntarism in the provision of public goods and services. What mobilizes giving and volunteering? What can policymakers and nonprofit managers do to change the current landscape in places with low levels of participation? These are the questions this edited collection addresses.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1 Introduction	1	(10)
Arthur C. Brooks
2 Can Government Build Community? Lessons from the National Service Program	11	(22)
Leslie Lenkowsky
3 Building Volunteer Capacity: The Drivers of Successful Corporate and Service Partnerships at City Year	33	(26)
Peter Frumkin and Lazar Treschan
4 Corporate Community Service Programs: Enhancing Community Capacity?	59	(18)
Mary Tschirhart and Lynda St. Clair
5 The Volunteer Center National Network: All It Can Be?	77	(32)
Jeffrey L. Brudney
6 Social Sector Partnerships and Voluntarism: What We Know and Still Need to Learn	109	(18)
David M. Van Slyke
7 How Do Need, Capacity, Geography, and Politics Influence Giving?	127	(32)
Wolfgang Bielefeld, Patrick Rooney, and Kathy Steinberg
8 Religion, Philanthropy, Service, and Civic Engagement in Twentieth-Century America	159	(26)
Peter Dobkin Hall
9 College, Social Capital, and Charitable Giving	185	(20)
Eleanor Brown
10 Gifts of Money in America's Community: What Can Scholarship Tell Practitioners?	205	(4)
Margaret G. Ogden
11 Why Do People Give?	209	(4)
Jeffrey D. Straussman
Index	213	(8)
About the Editor and Contributors	221