Danvers Historical Society: Service Learning in Acton Available to Purchase

Wayne Eisenhauer, the newly appointed treasurer of Danvers Historical Society, was growing increasingly frustrated. He was sitting in a meeting with the Board of Trustees, an aging group of nine volunteers, who had been arguing passionately about what type of paint to use on Tapley Hall. There was very little time left in the meeting and the group was less than halfway through the agenda.

Eisenhauer had repeatedly stressed the importance of sustainability to the Board. Referring to the large losses that were eating away at the society's endowment, he urged the Board to focus on the bigger picture by...