56. The Role of Voluntarism & Volunteerism in America with Elisabeth Clemens
Volunteer Nation
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The History of Volunteerism
The words all overlap, right? Philanthropy is the sort of older term would be benevolence broadly. Foundations are certainly an important element in the history of American volunteerism. They often act in collaboration with volunteer groups. If you think of things like the Carnegie libraries or the Rosenwald schools, you had a philanthropist with a foundation making a gift that had to be matched by funds raised by the community.
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