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...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...
Montague punctuated the readings with discussion of his work. He described the inspiration he draws from his relationship with the Irish language, calling Gaelic "a taproot" for his poetry...
...argued rather persuasively that such descriptions are now unconscionable, that fiction should be a genteel escape from the encroaching horrors of contemporary life rather than a blueprint for more of the same. The weakness of this case is that it denies narrative art its taproot into the muck and mire of the subconscious; it forgets that private nightmares will fester in solitary confinement instead of finding cathartic company in the public community of stories...
...central mission is to enable everyone to celebrate the blues as the taproot of modern American musical forms," said Larsan...
...around another 100 years?" he wonders. "Will the town be recognizable in 2089?" He thinks so, but he is troubled. So are all the people who still make up a rural culture of farms and small towns from the Appalachians to the Rockies, for all of our history a taproot that nourished the other branches. The crisis of the farms themselves has passed for now, but around Greenfield's town square the economic strain has worsened. A hardware store, a drugstore, a grocery store, a Ford dealership have all closed within three years. County residents are lured to the shopping...