Civil Defense Patrols act as a preventative force in Syracuse, New York, and succeed in curbing school vandalism while, at the same time, reducing security and property replacement costs. (Author/JN)

Reports a survey of three poverty areas in an industrial city of northern Indiana in which data were obtained from black residents regarding: (1) their perceptions of local leadership; and, (2) their activities in voluntary organizations. (JM)

Argues that low income home-ownership for the poor is unrealistic, and suggests that serious consideration be given to the manifold implications involved in declaring the total low-rent housing resources a public utility. (AF)

Article constitutes a chapter of a forthcoming book, "The NEA and the Black Teacher: the Integration of a Professional Association, to be published by the University of Miami. (RJ)

For higher education, the increasing number of nonprofit managers represents a graduate-level audience that may be as significant as the audience of business managers who emerged from private industrial corporations at the turn of the century. Yet colleges and universities have responded slowly to the needs of the third sector. (MLW)

Institutions of higher education and nonprofit, volunteer-dependent agencies have much in common but are also potential competitors for public and private support, media attention, volunteer energies, and clients. New partnerships must address four issues: organizations, personnel, curriculum, and learners. (MLW)

Examines the nature and quality of social services and support extended to children who enter the United States as legal or illegal immigrants or refugees, unaccompanied or with their families. Explores problems encountered by immigrant and refugee programs, and policy issues relating to services for newcomers. (Author/MJL)

Presenting an overview of the development of a community-based information and referral system, this article describes procedures designed to teach social service workers how to use the system to provide appropriate referrals and outlines a strategy for disseminating the system to other service agencies within the community. (LRA)

This analysis of the turn of the century public policy debates on state provision of school meals brings to light the political forces that continue to determine the health and well-being of urban school children. (JD)

Voluntary organizations are unaware of their potential as settings for learning and fail to distinguish between learning outcomes and instructional approaches. Adult educators can help such organizations by establishing a clear operational definition of adult education and developing plans for accomplishing educational goals. (SK)

Provides an update on what has happened in family day care in New York City since 1974. The pros and cons of this type of day care and prospects for the future are discussed. (Author/MP)

A survey of adult learning opportunities in Belfast, Northern Ireland, found an emerging sector of community and voluntary organizations offering programs emphasizing issue-based, action-oriented learning in a democratic participative culture. They offer alternatives to traditional formal providers of liberal adult education. (SK)

Reviews feminist theory and practice, spelling out implications for a feminist theory of social welfare containing both public and private realms. Uses these implications to examine a woman's grassroots voluntary organization that contains possibilities for rethinking societal responses to social welfare needs. (Author/LS)

Describes Soviet "people's universities" (networks of adult education programs) and the related Znanie Society, which offers individual lectures or short lecture cycles. Discusses their decentralized administrative structure, nongovernmental funding, and use of unpaid part-time teachers. Suggests that voluntary educational activities can…