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21 Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Q. 1 (1992)

handle is hein.journals/npvolsq21 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S NOTES T HIS is a very gratifying issue to present. Its authors represent the strength and diversity of our field, and they marshall their findings and their thoughts to address an awesome range of contemporary concerns. Donald C. Story opens the issue with some important considerations of a central element in the theory of voluntary action, the tension between the self-regarding and other-regarding aspects of the human spirit. He examines the philosophical bases of virtue on which volunteers may draw. Brigid Limerick and Tracey Burgess-Limerick, two Australian scholars, turn their attention to the empowerment of volunteers in secondary schools and probe for the meaning of the volunteer experience within the school. Leda McIntyre Hall, in A Commission to Change, looks at the experience of a church standing against the ravages of urban crisis in Detroit. In a sec- ond article on religious institutions, Priscilla A. La Barbera examines the expe- rience of enterprise in religious-based organizations. Annette Benedict, Jeffrey S. Shaw, and Leanne G. Rivlin, returning to these pages to present further findings from their ongoing research on the response to homelessness, examine attitudes toward homeless persons of those attending New York City community board meetings. David Horton Smith, our founding editor, also returns to these pages with his study of the characteristics of national nonprofit voluntary associations, suggesting that such organizations deserve the fuller attention of researchers. Pamela D. Elkind concludes the issue by probing the characteristics of active members in nuclear repository issues organizations, calling our attention to the par- ticular backgrounds of persons who invest much of their lives in community- based environmental organizations. Among the gratifications of this issue is being able to observe that the senior authors of five of the seven articles presented are women. Voluntary action research has come a long way from the days when the overwhelming proportion of volunteers were women and the overwhelming proportion of researchers were men. A sign of the times, and a good one at that. Another sign of the times is the recent appointment by the ARNOVA board of Carl Milofsky of Bucknell University as the new editor-in-chief of NVSQ. I have served in this role for twelve years, and the time had most certainly come for the selection of a new NVSQ editor. For the first time in its history, ARNOVA possesses among its membership a great many indi- viduals with both the willingness and the seasoned judgment necessary to serve the association well in this position. When I learned that Carl Milofsky, and others of similar ability and temperament, were willing to con- sider serving, it was not a difficult decision on my part to ask the Publications Committee to allow me to withdraw from consideration for another term. At this point in ARNOVA's history, it is crucial for the entire voluntary and non- NONPROFIT AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR QUARTERLY. vol 21, no. 1, Spring 1992 @Jossey-Bass Inc , Publishers I

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