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...family. There is much to discuss," joked Lech in an interview with Time before the parliamentary vote), look set to dominate Polish politics for the next five years. The Kaczynskis' appeal is due in large part to their promises to maintain social programs threatened by their rivals in the Civic Platform party. Civic Platform advocated radical free-market reforms to slash the budget deficit and jump-start the economy, but voters shied away from these in favor of the Law and Justice Party's more socially oriented approach. Before the vote, the now President-elect told Time he opposed privatization...
According to a 2004 report by the Harvard School of Public Health in conjunction with the MetLife Initiative on Retirement and Civic Engagement, if the members of this best-educated generation in history step up, they want to do good in ways that tap into their expertise and experience. They also want to see the impact they're making. And that's not all. If they're retired, they look to public service to replace what they enjoyed about working: camaraderie, intellectual stimulation, the sense of achieving a goal. And they want all this only when it fits in with...
...Transition Network is just one of a host of new nonprofits that are rethinking and retooling volunteerism. Civic Ventures, which sets up new programs to be run by existing nonprofits, is another. Some recent start-ups have carved out their own social-action niches and enlist their own recruits. Aaron Hurst, for example, founded Taproot in 2001 to fill a void he perceived for business professionals who wanted to make a civic contribution. "Five years ago," he says, "volunteer assignments were nearly all direct service: soup kitchens, tutoring kids, stuffing envelopes. Nonprofits were not focused on people contributing their skills...
...leadership in volunteerism is not coming from traditional nonprofits," says Marc Freedman, Civic Ventures' president and co-founder, "but from a new generation of social entrepreneurs, boomers and preboomers who are taking matters into their own hands." Numbers tell part of the story. During the 1950s and early '60s, according to Leonard Steinhorn, author of the forthcoming The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, there were about 5,000 IRS-approved nonprofits. "From the 1970s through the 1990s, when boomers came into their own," he says, "that number soared to nearly...
...beginning. Following up on the themes set by the issue, TIME is convening an extraordinary three-day Global Health Summit in New York City this week. With major support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we have invited more than 400 people from all walks of life--policymakers; religious, civic and business leaders; thinkers and doers; scientists; entertainers; journalists; and public-health officials--to help devise practical solutions to the health crisis in the developing world. The conference is organized around 10 "big questions," from "Why do 10 million children have to die?" to "How do we prepare...