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People Everywhere Are Working for the Greater Good in the Second Half of Life

The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Voluntarism

By Marc Freedman

the Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers tells the story of a group of concerned adults who mentor inner-city youth. It describes what volunteers can do to ameliorate the conditions of young people living in poverty and chronicles the rise of the mentoring movement, examining its wider implications for education and social policy.

Marc Freedman brings experience, research, and realism in an effort to present the truth about the mentoring movement sweeping America today.

The revised edition, published by Cambridge University Press in 1999, contains a new introduction that highlights research conducted since the original publication of the book in 1993.



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The Kindness of Strangers may be ordered from Amazon.com or your local bookseller.

Paperback: 192 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x 9.01 x 6.01

Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); Reprint edition (January 1, 1999)

ISBN: 052165287

Turning the tables: from an experience drain to an experience gain
Turning the tables: from an experience drain to an experience gain

Doomsayers see the aging boom as a problem to be solved, a costly gray wave. Civic Ventures sees this longevity revolution differently — as the springboard for an America made better by experience.


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