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Retaining Older Volunteers Is Key to Meeting Future Volunteer Needs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The boomers' impending retirement has spurred interest in tapping their productive energies to benefit society. This study examines older adults' decisions to stop or start formal volunteer work.
Barbara Butrica   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Digest of U-Report surveys: II quarter of 2025 (how young people see Ukrainian culture, eco-friendly habits and opinions on climate policy, youth attitudes towards blood donation)

open access: yesУкраїнський соціум
The results of surveys (April – June 2025) of the innovative youth project U-Report are demonstrated: the ways of young people see Ukrainian culture, eco-friendly habits and opinions on climate policy, and youth attitudes towards blood donation.
Demchuk V. S.
doaj   +1 more source

Illinois River Volunteer Monitoring [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Understanding how water quality conditions change along a land use gradient and over time is important for sustainable watershed management. Therefore, a volunteer monitoring program was created to measure water chemistry at 37 established sites within ...
Haggard, B.E., Massey, L.B.
core   +2 more sources

The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Wilson and Musick review some of the research on the supposed benefits of volunteering and describe briefly some of the results of their own work in this area.
Musick, Marc, Wilson, John
core   +2 more sources

Arrivals on the island of Lesbos, summer 2015

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2016
Lesbos, population 85,000, received more than 85,000 refugees and migrants in 2015 up to the end of August.
Fotini Rantsiou
doaj  

Towards trusted volunteer grid environments

open access: yes, 2010
Intensive experiences show and confirm that grid environments can be considered as the most promising way to solve several kinds of problems relating either to cooperative work especially where involved collaborators are dispersed geographically or to ...
Belghith, Abdelfettah, Khemakhem, Maher
core   +1 more source

Imprisonment and deportation of Iraqi refugees in Lebanon

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2016
A non-signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Lebanon does not grant refugee status to Iraqis, many of whom end up spending long periods of time in detention.
Qusay Tariq Al-Zubaidi
doaj  

Survey of Sachet Water Waste Disposal in Liberia

open access: yesJournal of Health and Pollution, 2018
Background. Five hundred milliliter bags of water, referred to as ‘sachet water,’ are widely used in Liberia, as they are low cost, safe sources of clean drinking water for the population. Objectives.
Chikamso C. Apeh
doaj   +1 more source

Civic engagement and social capital in ship-preservation work in Norway: The scope, impact, and demographics of formal volunteering and publicly funded engagements

open access: yesNordic Journal of Social Research, 2014
Introduction: The current focus on volunteering related to civic engagement in Norway has led to a rise in complementary private initiatives and public funding, specifically with regard to the preservation of historic ships. Volunteers for this programme
Ursula S. Goth, Erik Småland
doaj   +1 more source

Professional Volunteers

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
In 1939, Dr. William Osler Abbott used his opportunity with an audience at the Charaka Club in New York to recount the process for conducting necessary clinical research for his new gastroenterological technique for treating obstructions in the small intestine.
openaire   +2 more sources

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