"Who benefits from AmeriCorps, VISTA, and National Civilian Community Corps? Frumkin and Jastrzab make important recommendations on how to improve the programs and resolve some of the political and administrative issues which have plagued these initiatives in the past two decades."ùJames Youniss, Catholic University of America --

A voluntary, decentralized program that links civilian and military service, Mosko's plan for the young generation of Americans would have young men and women aged 18 to 23 work in day care, correctional facilities, with the aged and infirm, as well as in non-profit associations and public agencies or as citizen-soldier components in the All-Volunteer Military Force.

The official report of the Commission. Covers: service learning among school-age youth; community service in higher education; youth corps: reconnecting America's youth; national service: from theory to practice, and building the community service network. Photos and graphs.