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Putnam and fellow researcher Thomas H. Sander plan to use the $275,618 grant to study how social context affects volunteering and civic participation. Both men are involved with the Saguaro Seminar, which works to improve the measurement of social capital—the set of resources, available in social networks, that lead people to help and get help from their connections—and studies this information to develop ways to improve civic involvement...
...grant, which the Corporation for National and Community Service is awarding for the first time, was announced yesterday at the annual meeting of the National Conference on Citizenship in Washington, D.C. Sander, the executive director of the Seminar, said he learned they had been awarded the grant two weeks...
According to Sander, he and Putnam will be using the grant to analyze data collected by the U.S. government on civic participation, a study he said he expects will take two or three years...
...hoping that we’ll get a much better view of how participation in America looks across social classes,” Sander said...
...fashion forecast remains bright. Last season's monochromatic gray trend is fast fading from memory as orange emerges to punch up summer wardrobes. The sunny hue first appeared on Miuccia Prada's fall 2007 runway, and then Raf Simons picked it up for his spring 2008 collection for Jil Sander. Now orange is turning up on everything from Pucci's new sunglass collection to Furla's braided-handle tote and Louis Vuitton's modernist cuff. And on an elaborate gown at Dior's haute couture show, the hue oozed regal glamour. In the home, orange is a great accent color...