The Field Guide to Community Service

The Online Edition

The award-winning Field Guide to Community Service is designed to be a “starter kit” for individuals who want to get more involved in the community but are not quite sure how to begin.

The first Field Guide was published in 2008 as a hard-copy resource (with a pdf version added later). But now we are only publishing this valuable resource online.

And our first-ever online edition of the Field Guide to Community Service has been edited by the next generation of community leaders. We recruited students — from high school and college — to serve as editors of different chapters.

The Guide is intended to be a useful, up-to-date resource with relevant information that is easily accessed.​

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