Robert C. Terry

Cambridge, Massachusetts United States

Writer, Trustee

NGO / Public Service

Civic service today is a worldwide story – growing, promising, but under-told. My book-in-progress, with working title "TO FULFILL OUR PROMISE: How 100 years of bold experiments in civic service are transforming lives at home and abroad", explores why Americans keep volunteering, despite our culture's worship of money and consuming; its stories explaining this paradox show why civic service, a bipartisan phenomenon, is helping to keep part of America's promise exceptional, a shining example even during dark times, and is spreading worldwide.