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The Health Benefits of Volunteering: A Review of Recent Research [PDF]
, 2007 Over the past two decades we have seen a growing body of research that indicates volunteering provides individual health benefits in addition to social benefits.
Kimberly Spring +2 more
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On the Volunteers and Volunteering
, 2020 The project mentioned below is aimed at the study of a possibility and forms of the civic volunteers’ participation in a mitigation or prediction of modern natural and environmental disasters in Russia. Such participation is necessary taking into account the huge size of its territory and variety of natural and built landscape as well as of types of ...
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Childhood predictors of volunteering across 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study
Scientific ReportsWhile prior work documents individual and societal benefits to volunteering, less is known about how childhood experiences shape volunteering in adulthood around the world.
Julia S. Nakamura +8 more
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The importance of measuring economic, social and personal benefits of volunteering
Ekonomski VjesnikPurpose: This study aims to broaden the understanding of volunteering by exploring its wider economic, social, and personal impact beyond individual altruism.
Julia Perić, Mirna Leko Šimić
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AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION [PDF]
We develop an economic model of association based on voluntary contributions. Different equilibria corresponding to the different modes of formation of associations are analyzed and the results are compared with existing empirical literature.
Jean-Benoît Zimmermann, Katia Melnik
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Youth Participation in Service and Volunteering: Exploring Economic Benefit in the Southern Africa Context, a Youth Perspective [PDF]
, 2011 The study explores the benefits to both individual volunteers and society, where volunteer-enabling policy is present, as well as highlighting collective action theory that promotes volunteering in ...
Kenneth Dickhudt
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Health ExpectationsBackground Volunteering may have therapeutic benefits, but little is known about its requirements and potential for people with neurological conditions (pwNC). Design Two separate focus groups were conducted in Darmstadt, Germany: one group consisting of
Helene Eisenhut +2 more
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