voluntarism

Provides strategies and methods for different ways to help others, including activism, volunteering and community service, and fundraising, and includes real-life stories of girls who have successfully used these methods.

Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.

Features young people who have made a difference in their own lives and in the lives of those around them.

Individual teenagers relate their experiences in various types of volunteer activities.

Offers tools and inspiration for individuals seeking to make a difference, covering volunteering, board service, fund-raising, workplace initiatives, nonprofit careers, and other related topics.

Teenagers discuss the rewarding and sometimes frustrating experiences of being a volunteer, including their commitment and accomplishments, parental support, and how they incorporate volunteer activities into their busy high school schedules.

Offers students information about school volunteering, discussing getting involved, teamwork, group identity, fundraising, and school spirit, and including related activities.

Dawn Delaney and her friends arrive in New Orleans to spend their summer vacation helping with the city's rebuilding efforts, but a psychic reading on their first night predicts big changes in the coming weeks, including a new man for broken-hearted Dawn, but Dawn is not sure if she is willing to open her heart and risk getting hurt again, even if it means passing on a chance at true love.

This book describes social services our government has provided in the past, worldwide social services, and how the reader can help.