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Excerpt from: The Role Of Voluntary Organizations It is in the large local societies that we often find today a rift, a chasm between the old leadership group and the new members. In many cases our societies were started from within the upper middle class group, the well-to-do though not necessarily rich people. Their goals often resulted from a desire to obtain life time security for their children. The newer membership, often persons of lesser means, are seeking more limited, more immediate services.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Role Of Voluntary Organizations | |
| From: | Speeches Of Rosemary F. Dybwad | |
| Creator: | Rosemary F. Dybwad (author) | |
| Date: | 1982 | |
| Format: | Speech | |
| Source: | Friends of the Samuel Gridley Howe Library and the Dybwad Family | |
| Keywords: | Activists; Advocacy; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Family; Fundraising; Identity; INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS; International League Of Societies For The Mentally Handicapped; International Relations; Kenya; Mental Retardation; Parenting; People First; Policy; Rosemary Dybwad; Self Help; Service Organizations; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & ADVOCACY | |
| Note: | Speech delivered at the Eighth World Congress on Mental Retardation, Nairobi, Kenya. |
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