基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1994. Includes extensive research from more than 60 neighbourhood organisations.
Full Description
A comprehensive look at inner-city youth programs. Urban Sanctuaries analyzes the strategies of community leaders and organizations. The author describes how these leaders create and sustain youth programs in spite of enormous challenges.
Contents
1. Neighborhood Organizations: Places of Hope in the Inner City. 2. The Hopefuls: Six Teens with a Bright Future.
3. The Wizards: Three Homegrown Community Leaders.
4. More Wizards: Three Outsiders Who Have Earned Respect.
5. What Matters Most? Common Traits of Wizards and Their Organizations.
6. Making Vision a Reality: The People Who Make it Work.
7. Building the Program's Family.
8. Volunteers: A Mixed Blessing.
9. Finding Resources: The Struggle to Fund Neighborhood Programs.
10. Sustaining Places of Hope: How Three Programs Negotiate Support in One City.
11. Keeping Hope Alive: An Appeal for Action.