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Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. She reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach. With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. Eliasoph describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their resumes, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. She looks at adult "plug-in" volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. Eliasoph indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Based on participant research inside civic and community organizations, Making Volunteers illustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective.--Publisher description.

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Community development --- Public interest --- Social action --- Communitarianism --- United States --- Moral conditions --- Community development - United States --- Public interest - United States --- Social action - United States --- Communitarianism - United States --- United States - Moral conditions

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While previous studies have examined the impacts of broadband infrastructure, they have indicated little about the extent to which local populations can afford and use the technology. Moreover, there has been limited scientific evidence on how broadband adoption matters for collective benefits. Including new data on broadband subscriptions from 2000-2017, and comprehensive analysis for U.S. states, counties, metros, cities, and neighborhoods, 'Choosing the Future' argues that broadband use in the population is a form of digital human capital that benefits communities as well as individuals.

Internet --- Community development --- Broadband communication systems --- Telecommunication policy --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Community development - United States --- Broadband communication systems - Government policy - United States --- Telecommunication policy - United States

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Sociology of culture --- United States --- Community development --- Public interest --- Social action --- Développement communautaire --- Interêt public --- Action sociale --- Etats-Unis --- Moral conditions --- Conditions morales --- Développement communautaire --- Interêt public --- Community development - United States. --- Social action - United States. --- Public interest - United States. --- United States of America

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No academic book relates the formal process of bringing community development in the African American community. The focus of this book is to bring a fresh and needed perspective to Black and inner city communities that have suffered from lack of development and investment. The book offers a reasoned and demonstrated approach to the oppressed African American community as a means of self improvement in the hope of achieving self-reliance and independence for a better quality of life.

African Americans -- Social conditions. --- Community development -- United States. --- Community development --- African Americans --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Conditions --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Social conditions --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Black people