Governance and Politics

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Philadelphia Census of Congregations and Their Involvement in Social Service Delivery (with Stephanie C. Boddie), Penn IUR Publications (2001)
This census of congregational social services is the first attempt to identify all of the...
 

Housing and Community Development

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Philadelphia Census of Congregations and Their Involvement in Social Service Delivery (with Stephanie C. Boddie), Penn IUR Publications (2001)
This census of congregational social services is the first attempt to identify all of the...
 

Race and Social Welfare

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Philadelphia Census of Congregations and Their Involvement in Social Service Delivery (with Stephanie C. Boddie), Penn IUR Publications (2001)
This census of congregational social services is the first attempt to identify all of the...
 

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The Role of Social Anxiety in Volunteering (with Femida Handy), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2007)
The volunteer management literature suggests that the most effective means of recruitment is personal asking....
 

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Adolescent Risk Behaviors and Religion: Findings from a National Study (with Jill W. Sinha and Richard W. Gelles), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2007)

Too few studies have assessed the relationship between youth risk behaviors and religiosity using measures...

 

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Summer on the Island: Episodic Volunteering (with Femida Handy and Nadine Brodeur), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2006)

In the fields of volunteer research and management, the phenomenon of episodic volunteering is growing...

 

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Does Social Work Education Have an Impact on Social Policy Preferences? A Three-Cohort Study (with Idit Weiss and John Gal), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2005)

This article examines the impact of social work education on the social policy preferences of...

 

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Review of Peter J. Wosh, Covenant House: Journey of a Faith-based Charity, Departmental Papers (SPP) (2005)

In Covenant House: Journey of a Faith-Based Charity, Peter Wosh provides us with a modern...

 

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Youth and Religion: The Gameboy Generation Goes to "Church" (with Richard J. Gelles and Jill W. Sinha), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2004)

Using the secularization theory and the Marxist notion of religion as masking class conscience one...

 

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Congregations as Social Service Providers: Services, Capacity, Culture, and Organizational Behavior (with Jill W. Sinha and Charlene C. McGrew), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2004)

Social welfare is traditionally discussed as a mixture of public, private, communal, and familial enterprise....

 

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Social Work Education as Professional Socialization: A Study of the Impact of Social Work Education Upon Students's Professional Preferences (with Idit Weiss and John Gal), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2004)

Professional socialization in social work is the subject of the panel study described in this...

 

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Review of Hillel Schmid, Neighborhood Self-Management: Experiments in Civil Society, Departmental Papers (SPP) (2003)

In this volume, Professor Hillel Schmid of the Hebrew University describes and analyzes an attempt...

 

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Charitable Choice and Faith-Based Welfare: A Call for Social Work (with Stephanie C. Boddie), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2002)

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 contains a little known section...

 

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Review of Artisans of Democracy: How Ordinary People, Families in Extreme Poverty, and Social Institutions Become Allies to Overcome Social Exclusion, Departmental Papers (SPP) (2002)

As a longtime reader and contributor to NVSQ, I have been occupied for quite a...

 

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What Kind of Social Policy do Social Work Students Prefer? A Comparison of Students in Three Countries (with Idit Weiss, John Gal, and Rea Majlaglic), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2002)

The goal of this article is to contribute to our understanding of the way in...

 

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Public Perception of "Who is a Volunteer": An Examination of the Net-cost Approach from a Cross-Cultural Perspective (with Femida Handy, Jeffrey L. Brudney, Ugo Ascoli, Lucas C. Meijs, and Shree Ranade), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2000)

Volunteers are the cornerstones on which the voluntary sector is predicated. We are accustomed to...

 

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Comparing Neighbors: Social Service Provision by Religious Congregations in Ontario and the United States (with Femida Handy), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2000)

Although religious congregations in the United States constitute a significant part of the nation's safety...

 

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Community Development as a Public Sector Agenda (with Felice D. Perlmutter), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1999)

This paper documents how one Department of Recreation in a large city underwent a planned...

 

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Performance and Commitment: Issues in Management of Volunteers in Human Service Organizations (with Toni Cascio), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1999)

Volunteers are difficult to monitor because they are not liable to serious sanctions. We propose...

 

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Volunteering for Human Service Provisions: Lessons from Italy and the U.S.A. (with Ugo Ascoli), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1997)

The increased reliance on volunteers in all industrialized democracies has been parallelled by growing fiscal...

 

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Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector: The Horns of a Dilemma (with Felice D. Perlmutter), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1995)

What are local public administrators expected to do in an era of tax-based decline, diminishing...

 

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Assessing the Impact of Two Residential Programs for Dually-Diagnosed Homeless Individuals (with Laura E. Blankertz), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1994)

Two residential programs for dually diagnosed (severely mentally ill and substance abusing) homeless individuals in...

 

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Childhood Risk Factors in Dually Diagnosed Homeless Adults (with Laura E. Blankertz and Erica Freedman), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1993)

Although the negative long term effects of specific childhood risk factors - sexual and physical...