Covenant House
Subtitle: Journey Of A Faith-Based Charity
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780812238310
Subjects: Charities & voluntary services; Runaway children; New York; Covenant House (New York, N.Y; Social work with youth; History; Sociology; Ritter, Bruce,; History: American; New York (State); Children's Studies; Philanthropy & Charity; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Services for; United States - 20th Century; 1927-; Abandoned children
First sentence: The Rev. Bruce Ritter generated little attention in 1968 when he decided to resign a tenured professorship at Manhattan College and move into a dilapidated tenement apartment in New York City's East Village in order to begin a new ministry.