Service Enquiry is being compiled by a team of three editors:

Helene Perold is a consultant in education, media and development, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The writer of a two-volume report on Community Service in Higher Education in South Africa (Joint Education Trust, 1997 and 1998), and co-author of the Green Paper on National Youth Service in South Africa (1998), she compiled the report on the Ford Foundation's Worldwide Workshop on Youth Involvement as a Strategy for Social, Economic and Democratic Development (Ford Foundation, 2000), and advised the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg on the development of a policy for service learning in the same year.
  

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Susan Stroud is Executive Director of Innovations in Civic Participation in Washington, DC, USA. Innovations In Civic Participation is one of the founding partners of the Global Service Institute. From 1998 to 2001 Susan directed an international project on national and community service at the Ford Foundation and helped create a network of university-based service programmes in South Africa and various service initiatives in Russia and Mexico. She served in The White House and at the Corporation for National Service to help enact and implement AmeriCorps legislation, and founded the Campus Compact and the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University.

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Michael Sherraden is Benjamin E Youngdahl Professor of Social Development, Director of the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. The Center for Social Development is one of the founding partners of the Global Service Institute. He is author or co-editor of several studies on service, including The US Civilian Conservation Corps, 1979; National Service, 1982; Moral Equivalent of War, 1990; Community-Based Youth Services in International Perspective, 1992; and Productive Ageing, 2001.

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