February 21, 2002
The Wrong Way to Encourage Volunteerism
President Bush's effort to use his State of the Union address to harness the patriotic fervor generated by the fight against terrorism into a community-service revolution should have been an exciting moment for nonprofit groups that involve volunteers in their work.
But instead it was a surprise announcement that, no matter how well intentioned, was crafted so poorly that a lot of time and money could be wasted building a new bureaucracy with no clear benefit or rationale. More
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