Big Citizenship

Author: Alan Khazei
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1586487868

Big Citizenship: How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out the Best in America

Alan Khazei has pioneered ways to empower citizens to make a difference throughout his life. Download Big Citizenship: How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out the Best in America from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. As a young graduate from Harvard Law School, he turned down lucrative offers from corporate law firms to found a non-profit called City Year with his friend, Michael Brown.

City Year allowed young people to serve their communities-first in Boston, now in twenty cities across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa, and London, U.K.-through mentoring, tutoring, and leading children. It also allowed Khazei to be at the forefront of a generation of innovators who invented new methods of social
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