Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But ...what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. She reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach.
When a group of citizens establishes a non-profit and a non-government organisation in our country, those volunteers are carried by great enthusiasm. At the beginning when founding an NGO the main ...problems are lack of experience and financial resources. Those deficiencies can be overcome by some other qualities such as the personal competencies of volunteers.As NGOs are seen by the public rather critically in our country, our organization had to face several additional challenges. In my presentation I will illustrate the following aspects: the non-attractiveness of NGOs for volunteers, the lack of awareness how volunteering is important for a society, the lack of knowledge how to attract volunteers and how to manage them, the lack of knowledge how to define the volunteers' positions and how to monitor their work, the lack of their systemic, continuing education and the lack of rewards, recognition and appreciation to acknowledge the most dedicated volunteers.Disclosure of InterestNone declared
Auf der Grundlage von narrativen Interviews mit Personen, die ein Engagement in einem Wohlfahrtsverband abgebrochen haben, wird ein Spannungsfeld aus bindenden und abstoßenden Erfahrungen im ...bürgerschaftlichen Engagement diskutiert. Das Feld der Wohlfahrtspflege ermöglicht einerseits innigliche zwischenmenschliche Erfahrungen und ist andererseits durch Ökonomisierung geprägt. Anhand dieser Ergebnisse wird eine Heuristik zum Verständnis von Engagementprozessen vorgestellt, die auf feldspezifische Erfahrungen sowie auf Spannungsverhältnisse fokussiert.
Allure of unpaid help Buchan, James
Nursing standard,
02/2018, Volume:
32, Issue:
25
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The winter flu crisis has reinforced the urgent need to expand the NHS workforce, with policy attention increasingly focusing on the contribution of volunteers. At a time of staff shortages and cost ...containment, the attraction of using unpaid local volunteers is all too obvious.
Scholars have significantly focused on examining volunteer motivations for mega-sporting events with a single construct regarding the intention to continue volunteering. However, there may be ...different motivations and behaviors in community sporting events compared to those volunteering in mega sporting events. The purposes of this study were to identify motives that are most and least important to those who volunteer with community sporting events, and assess whether the particular motives influence a different facet of intentions to continue volunteering in the future. Using a sample of 152 volunteers, structural equation modeling was used to assess the proposed hypotheses. Results showed that value was the most important motive for volunteering. Protective and career had negative while social and enhancement had positive influences on overall intention to continue volunteering. Protective had a negative but enhancement had a positive relationship on intention to continue volunteering relative to the influence by family or friends. Keywords: volunteer motives, community sport, retention intention.
Researches of historical-pedagogical and volunteer orientation actualize. The author highlights the vivid examples of volunteer activity described in Russian history and characterizes the activity ...forms of charity in the difficult time of the World War I. Effective forms of disseminating the ideas and values of volunteer practice among youth are revealed; values of public service are proved, motives of dedication of a part of life of students to other people are identified. The process of formation of public opinion about volunteer activity in modern Russia is reviewed.
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