The Kindness of Strangers Adult Mentors,

The Kindness of Strangers takes a hard, realistic look at mentoring while offering a vivid portrayal of the mentoring movement and how ordinary citizens in cities across America are trying to turn young lives around.

MARC FREEDMAN has studied education and youth programs for more than a decade and is director of special projects for Public/Private Ventures, a research and development organization based in Philadelphia that focuses on helping kids in poverty. He lives in Berkeley, California.

1. A Call to Action

2. Great Expectations

3. Recurring Fervor

4. Birth of a Movement

5. The Benefits of Mentoring

6. The Limits of Mentoring

7. Making the Most of Mentoring

8. Closing the Caring Gap

9. Re-engaging the Middle Class

10. Reinventing Community

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The Kindness of Strangers Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Volunteerism

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