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How You Can Help: An Easy Guide to Incorporating Good Deeds into Your Everyday Life

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Coplin's "How You Can Help" is an inspiration to both aspiring and life-long do-gooders alike. His easy-to-follow tips and guidelines for being a successful volunteer, donor and/or professional do-gooder make this book a must-read. "How You Can Help" crosses all boundaries, as it applies to anyone from parents looking to develop a neighborhood tutoring program to business-owners looking to make their companies more socially responsible. Coplin's tales of success provide inspiration for all. This book sets the standard for do-gooding and motivates each reader to do his or her part to make the world a better place.

As a college student I found "How you can Help" an enlightening manual on how the youth and everyone in todays socieity can help to revive the ideals of "doing good" and helping others. The book serves as a step by step manual on how the individual can someway help others. Something I throughly enjoyed and highly recommend.

I first read this book when I entered college in 2000 and it has continually remained a motivation and reference point for the past 6-years. After reading this book, I denounced my film making aspirations and took a path of public affairs.

"How You Can Help" highlights simple ways you can incorporate doing good into various aspects of your life. Through inspirational stories and step-by-step guides to getting involved, Coplin provides a thorough outline of how you can make a difference. Idealistic, yes, but unlike many other inspirational books, Coplin cuts straight to the point. This book makes getting involved simple. I recommend "How You Can Help" to anyone, but especially young students trying to find their place in this world. It will help you find the do-gooder in you.

Admittedly, the book may have its merits for those truly dedicated to volunteering (though I think most of it simply states the obvious). However, I am irritated by its mandated role in the introductory public affairs classes, particularly PAF 101 in Syracuse Project Advance. The only time it is required is when there is an irrelevant question on the general assignment that demands a quotation from it. There are a few lying around in my teacher's room that we grab to fulfill this task - one performs admirably as a doorstop. The use of this book in the curriculum is simply a grab for more book sales by Prof. Coplin - he wrote the main textbook as well.