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- catalog abstract ""In this study of volunteers at the Partnership for the Homeless in New York City, Robert S. Ogilvie examines why people volunteer and what motivates them to stick with it. He describes, in the volunteers' own voices and through his own experience as director of volunteers, how participants become integrated into the Partnership's program and how the environment of the shelters connects people to one another and to sources of meaning and power. Voluntarism, Community Life, and the American Ethic provides a step-by-step analysis of the elements that contribute to a successful volunteer program."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b13301094.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""In this study of volunteers at the Partnership for the Homeless in New York City, Robert S. Ogilvie examines why people volunteer and what motivates them to stick with it. He describes, in the volunteers' own voices and through his own experience as director of volunteers, how participants become integrated into the Partnership's program and how the environment of the shelters connects people to one another and to sources of meaning and power. Voluntarism, Community Life, and the American Ethic provides a step-by-step analysis of the elements that contribute to a successful volunteer program."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-261) and index.".
- catalog description "Voluntarism and the American ethic -- The Partnership for the Homeless -- In the church shelters -- Why people volunteer in church shelters and why they keep at it -- The mediating role of the church shelters -- The moral effects of the volunteer experience -- The church shelters as community-generating institutions -- Social architecture.".
- catalog extent "viii, 272 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Voluntarism, community life, and the American ethic.".
- catalog identifier "0253344239 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Voluntarism, community life, and the American ethic.".
- catalog isPartOf "Philanthropic and nonprofit studies".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Voluntarism, community life, and the American ethic.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "362.5/83 22".
- catalog subject "HV4506.N6 O35 2004".
- catalog subject "Partnership for the Homeless (New York, N.Y.)".
- catalog subject "Shelters for the homeless New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "Voluntarism New York (State) New York.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Voluntarism and the American ethic -- The Partnership for the Homeless -- In the church shelters -- Why people volunteer in church shelters and why they keep at it -- The mediating role of the church shelters -- The moral effects of the volunteer experience -- The church shelters as community-generating institutions -- Social architecture.".
- catalog title "Voluntarism, community life, and the American ethic / Robert S. Ogilvie.".
- catalog type "text".