Grassroots AssociationsGrassroots Associations is a comprehensive review and critique of empirical and theoretical research on grassroots, nonprofit and voluntary organizations. David Horton Smith examines in depth the distinctive nature and characteristics of a previously under-studied area which includes such groups as Alchoholics Anonymous, community-environmental action committees and church Bible study groups. He addresses: group formation, structure, process, leadership, and life cycle change; effectiveness; the influence such associations have on society; the future of grassroots associations, which he sees as integral to a postmodern society moving towards participatory democracy, self-determinism and individual choice. |
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... formal program volunteers as usual . A few years earlier , they had said 9 million for 1991. How they can be off by ... formal program volunteer work done , even most narrowly defined ( formal program volunteers only ) , are roughly the ...
... Formal volunteer time may be defined as time spent by an individual doing volunteer activity , participation , or work in some group , organ- izational , or program context rather than without any group context ( i.e. , infor- mal ...
... Formal education increase , 257 Formal GAs , 240 definition of , 112 Formal groups , definition of , 112 Formal member of GA . See Membership eligi- bility criteria in GAs , formal Formal volunteer . See Volunteer , formal Formal ...
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Definitions and Metaphors | 7 |
Revising FlatEarth Maps | 33 |
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Poverty and the Third Way Colin C Williams,Colin C. Williams,Jan Windebank No preview available - 2004 |