Social Capital and Community Well-Being

Chapter 1. The Role of Social Capital to American Democracy and the Creation of Serve Here CT.- Chapter 2. Millennials and Social Capital: Exploration in Reinventing the American Dream.- Chapter 3. Social Capital and the Returning Military Veteran.- Chapter 4. What is Social Capital?.- Chapter 5. The Value of Social Capital: What are its Outcomes?.- Chapter 6. The Economics of Social Capital: Considering the Fiscal Value of Social Networks.- Chapter 7. Compassionate Capitalism, the Workplace, and Social Capital.- Chapter 8. Strategies for Building Social Capital.- Chapter 9. Building Social Capital from the Inside Out: Leveraging Intra-Power (Personal Capital).- Chapter 10. Teaching the Social Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow.- Chapter 11. Case Studies of Social Capital at Work.- Chapter 12. Social Capital: Models and Efforts to Build and Restore Among Marginalized Individuals and Communities.- Chapter 13. Evaluation: Concepts, Plans, and Progress .- Chapter 14. Epilogue. 

Alva G. Greenberg has a deep philanthropic commitment to the arts and to the welfare and education of children.  She is a 1974 graduate of Kenyon College with a major in drama. She has served on the board of the College as well as the Kenyon Festival Theater, Alva started her post graduate career as the co-owner and editor of a weekly newspaper in Old Lyme, CT called "The Gazette". In 1997 she opened ALVA Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in New London, CT while simultaneously making a significant commitment to the redevelopment of downtown New London by purchasing and rehabilitating four buildings and starting a Saturday Market at the waterfront. 
She has served on many community boards including the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, The Garde Arts Center, Inc., the Pequot Foundation and the Florence Griswold Museum. She currently sits on the board of the Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, Read to Grow and the Gund Art Gallery at Kenyon College.

Thomas Gullotta (Tom) is Serve Here Connecticut's Chief Advisor. Prior to this appointment he was the Chief Executive Officer of Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut retiring in 2015 and a member of the Psychology and Education Departments at Eastern Connecticut State University retiring in 2014. His scholarship encompasses the co-authorship of two college textbooks, the founding editorship of The Journal of Primary Prevention (Kluwer/Academic 1980 - 2000), co-editor, Advances in Adolescent Development: An Annual Book Series (Sage 1985 - 2000), editor, Prevention in Practice Library: A Monograph Series (Plenum, 1996 - 2001), and senior editor, Issues in Children's' and Families' Lives: A Book Series (Springer 1990 - present). 
In addition to authoring nearly 100 chapters, papers or reviews, he has co-edited or authored over thirty volumesdevoted to illness prevention / promotion of health for the treatment of children, adolescents, and families. Tom was