Today, more Americans volunteer through religious organizations than through any other type of organization and 92 percent of faith-based charities report the ability to take on additional volunteers. The Corporation for National and Community Service is dedicated to ensuring that faith-based and community organizations have the capacity, tools,…

Schools have a yearly rhythm--changing with the cycle and demands of the school calendar. There is the Season of Hope as the school year starts; then comes homework discontent, conferences of concern, grading and testing crises, newspaper attacks, worries about burnout, and the search for renewal. In keeping with all this, the material compiled…

This dissertation is based on the ideas that: (1) metaphor is essential to the conception of and life in organizations; (2) the dominant organizational metaphor of life within universities, particularly from an administrative perspective, is Newtonian/mechanical; and (3) a metaphoric perspective grounded in chaos theory might be helpful in…

This annual report describes the year's efforts by Save the Children, a leading international nonprofit children's humanitarian and development organization working in more than 40 countries. The report highlights the launch and first year of "Breakthroughs for Children," a 10-year strategy to create transformational change for children.…

This report is a comprehensive overview of the organization and activities of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC). It lists officers and members of the Board of Directors; provides who, what, why, when, where, and how facts and data about the organization and its 208 member institutions, which have an…

This report presents information compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from nine fact-finding missions conducted by WIPO in 1998 and 1999 on the intellectual property (IP) needs and expectations of holders of traditional knowledge. The fact-finding missions (FFMs) were designed to enable WIPO to identify the IP needs and…

Within the past few years the subjects of international peace and arbitration have come to have a place of importance in schools of all grades in the United States, and the interest in these subjects is increasing from year to year. As one means of fostering this interest many schools observe in a special way the 18th days of May, the anniversary…

A former president of the National Union of Students in Great Britain discusses financing student unions and prospects for the future of unions. (PG)

Discusses the Directed Learning Program in Hempstead, Long Island, one of 13 compensatory education programs across the country recommended for emulation by other school districts by the ERIC/Information Retrieval Center on the Disadvantaged. (Author/JM)

Issues discussed are (1) American Involvement with Southern Africa, (2) White Minority Rule, (3) Liberation Movements, (4) Role of International and Nongovernmental Organizations, and (5) the Future. (JB)

In a large and complicated school, good teaching can only be based on good organization. A disturbingly large number of able pupils and teachers in English comprehensive schools fail to realize their full potentials. This situation is primarily the result of poor organization, especially poor departmental organization. (Author)

National study indicated that as the numer of FFA chapter members increased, the mean participation score decreased and that high membership percentage in an FFA chapter is not necessarily a prerequisite for increased membership participation. (SB)

Presents an approach to metropolitan-wide educational organization alternative to those of consolidation of multiple school districts into single county administrative units and voluntary interdistrict cooperative projects, in order to accomplish the edning of the inequalities of the present educational structure. (JM)

The findings in this study that pledges, rushees, and independents differ in their Social Spontaneity Factor Scores and Family Income is not unexpected in view of previous results. These data suggest that not only are independents different from pledges but that rushees are also different from independents. (Author)