Word: volunteerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These Volunteers, like most of those engaged in community development, had had to find their own jobs. Many had become self-trained anthropologists in villages whose complicated networks of influence, malice, and rare benevolence no one had mapped yet, and where any small mistake could have catastrophic consequences for the...
Whether the Volunteers' two-year period overseas can also be made more fruitful intellectually is an open question. I've already suggested that a number of Volunteers enter the Peace Corps because they want a moratorium from academic life, and perhaps also from introspection. Can one imagine for such people...
Goodin said he would gauge the final success of his program at the Cambridge Community Center by the community's final rejection of outside help. He said that the program's action should not extend beyond teaching residents the practical details of running a volunteer program. The program's eventual...
With the growth of black consciousness, however, it may become more and more difficult for the white volunteer to function effectively in the black community. "All hell will break loose when black consciousness filters down to the kids--but by the time it's that great there will be enough...
For the first time, PBH also instituted a series of "Cabinet Seminars" to discuss topics which integrate the volunteer's work into wider considerations of change. One of these, "The Role of the Volunteer in Institutional Change" reviewed case studies of five PBH programs. Barbara Sard '68, chairman of the...