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Social capital and social ties in organisations: a case study of two voluntary sports clubs
International journal of sociology and social policy, 2019 Purpose If social capital is understood as the ability to access resources through social ties, it is clearly important to understand how people form social ties and what types of ties they form.
Richard Tacon
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Factors affecting general practice collaboration with voluntary and community sector organisations
Health and Social Care in the community, 2018 Collaborative working between general practice (GP) and voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations is increasingly championed as a means of primary care doing more with less and of addressing patients' "wicked problems". This paper aims to add to
K. Southby, M. Gamsu
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Welsh voluntary sector funding in the post-2010 austerity period
Welsh Economic Review, 2021 The paper examines the funding of Welsh voluntary sector organisations (VSOs), in terms of income source and type, in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global economic crisis, seeking to explore marketisation trends. A detailed examination of voluntary sector
Nikos Kapitsinis
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Alice in Wonderland: Voluntary sector organisations’ experiences of Transforming Rehabilitation
Probation Journal, 2019 This article explores the experience of voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) in the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) experiment. It identifies the motivations, expectations, rationalities and experiences of voluntary sector participants, drawing on ...
M. Corcoran, M. Maguire, Kate Williams
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Care, values and support in local self-help groups [PDF]
, 2004 This article examines ‘care’ and ‘values’ in local self-help groups and voluntary organisations which mobilise around partnering and parenting. It finds that a shared identity based upon common experiences of misrecognition and stigma is the most ...
Williams, F.
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The role of voluntary sport organisations in leveraging the London 2012 sport participation legacy
Leisure Studies, 2019 This study aimed to understand the perceptions of national Voluntary Sport Organisations (VSOs) managers towards a mega sports event and identify the components they felt enhanced or inhibited their organisations capacity to implement a sport ...
E. Hayday +2 more
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Historical Life Course Studies, 2018 This article investigates the association between, participation in, and exposure to voluntary organisations and marital fertility during the European fertility transition from 1880 to 1949.
Johan Junkka
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African Evaluation Journal, 2022 Background: Voluntary organisations for professional evaluation (VOPEs) have proliferated across the African continent, seeking to contribute to building effective national evaluation systems (NESs) that enhance development planning, implementation and ...
Tebogo Fish +3 more
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Disabled people’s organisations and the disability movement: Perspectives from Burkina Faso
African Journal of Disability, 2019 Background: In Burkina Faso, the disability movement is rather weak, both in terms of funding and staffing – its range does not extend far outside the capital city and is largely dependent on international non-governmental organisations (INGOs).
Lara Bezzina
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Financial Reporting in Maltese Voluntary Organisations
EUROPEAN RESEARCH STUDIES JOURNAL, 2018 In this paper we analyse the adequacy and effectiveness of the legal aspects of the current Maltese voluntary organisations' (VOs) regulatory framework, the guidelines and best practices being adopted by Maltese charities in compiling their financial reports.
Baldacchino, Peter J. +2 more
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