Word: pbh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PBH volunteers moved into fields with complex problems in the 1960s, such as prisons and urban housing, they found that they needed more than just good intentions to do on effective...
...operating expenses of PBH committees, excluding overhead totaled $2000... Expenses for this year will total...
...PBH STRIVES for two basic goals: to work for social change in local communities and to put Harvard undergraduate in touch with people and problems outside the University. Each PBH committee tries to attain these goals in its own way, from working with teenagers on probation to helping poor people renovate their apartments. In order to fulfill the two aims of serving the tangible needs of PBH volunteers, the 14 diverse committees have to face, as a unified organization, two major problems: the intergration of volunteer experience with academic education and raising funds...
...PBH volunteers find that academic study and volunteer work mutally reinforce each other. What they learn through partipating in cooperative activities with members of local communities often goes beyond what they learn in socialogy, personality psychology or government courses. Dealing with concrete problems in these fields adds life and a solid, realistic perspective to classroom study. A volunteer in a halfway house or in a mental institution quickly discovers the important issues in mental health care...
...character of PBH, it is easy to see its strength. The physical and human resources on which it can depend are considerable, Well-established group activities promise more permanent progress than undergraduates working four years at most could achieve alone; at the same time, its readiness to accept new ideas and projects as well as redefinition's of its older committees give it the flexibility to ensure and to grow, PBH may not change the world dramatically. It is learning to make more relish claims both for its programs and for its volunteers; that sort of caution is the best...