This is a book for anyone who wants to make the world a better place but doesn't know how. The book will help you understand your own level of do-gooding and/or do-gooder potential as well as understanding what your interests and skills are in order to direct them at a given goal. This book will help you find opportunities for helping others and give you ideas for ways you can help. It is broken into five sections: What is a Genuine Do-Gooder?; The Roles of a Do-Gooder: Volunteers, Donors, Citizens, Carers; Finding Nearby Windows of Opportunity; The Power to Create Change; and Toolkits.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

This book addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among our students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining 'habits of the heart' which will enhance citizenship, foster a sense of connectedness to a community stretching beyond the university, and ultimately, support the practices, basic values, and institutions necessary for the democratic process.