Interesting......young people are NOT joining these orgs for the most part.
I would be great to see church groups get active again.
Posted 4 days ago by Kaslin, the reliable informer on all things at Townhall.com.
We are living the Civic life. Our Civic is 20 years old, runs like a top and with a new paint job, sparkles on the lot.
It isn’t the “trend” (in majority movement, anyhow).
Some people who infilitrate these organizations want to eventually get control of the (now valuable) properties.
And there are preservationists who want them to remain.
But there was a great falling away from church memberships and church attendence which was a component of such charitable organizations.
It started at the beginning of Obama's terms. Coincidence?
Up until about ten years ago our little community would have a monthly dance with volunteer live music. Folks would come from a hundred or more miles away to come get together and catch up. People just can’t afford the time to do this anymore. They are all too busy trying to get by.
Townhall version posted here
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3716647/posts
Examiner here:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3716580/posts
for those interested in earlier comments.
Third times’ a charm?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3716647/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3716580/posts
Long running issue. This book is almost 20 years old now.
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam. It was developed from his 1995 essay entitled “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital”. Putnam surveys the decline of social capital in the United States since 1950. He has described the reduction in all the forms of in-person social intercourse upon which Americans used to found, educate, and enrich the fabric of their social lives. He argues that this undermines the active civil engagement, which a strong democracy requires from its citizens.