December 11, 2008
Amid Crisis, Former National Service Chief Sees Hope in Volunteerism
On the day before he stepped down as chief executive of the Corporation for National and Community Service, David Eisner said in a speech at Georgetown University that he was both proud and concerned.
"It is very possible that this economic downturn is going to do to our civic infrastructure what Hurricane Katrina did to the physical infrastructure in the Gulf Coast," he said.
The loss of resources — plummeting endowments at foundations, reductions in giving by
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