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More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work
, 2017 Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collective ...
M. Kelemen, Anita Mangan, S. Moffat
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Social and cultural origins of motivations to volunteer a comparison of university students in six countries [PDF]
, 2010 Although participation in volunteering and motivations to volunteer (MTV) have received substantial attention on the national level, particularly in the US, few studies have compared and explained these issues across cultural and political contexts. This
Anne Birgitta Pessi +41 more
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Engaging Students from Different Regions of the Russian Federation in Volunteering Activities
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: гуманитарные и общественные наукиVolunteering activities are a tool of moral upbringing that may help to develop fundamental values in young people. University students are a social stratum at the stage of active life and professional self-identification. Volunteering activities develop
Аntonina P. Kartavtseva +3 more
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Volunteer Frame and Volunteer Culture
Ewha Journal of Social Sciences, 2011 한국사회의 경제적 위기와 함께 사회복지의 욕구는 증가하였으나, 사회적 안정망 구축이 아직 충분하지 않은 현실에서 시민사회의 역할의 중요성이 부각되기 시작했다. 본 연구는 심리학의 ``프레임(frame)`` 개념을 원용하여 자원봉사운동을 활성화하고 자원봉사문화를 조성하는 방법을 탐색하는 이론적 관점을 제시하고자 한다.
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College Students Helping America [PDF]
, 2006 The Corporation has produced the most comprehensive national report ever conducted on college student volunteering in the United States. "College Students Helping America" concludes that college student volunteering increased by approximately 20 percent ...
Kevin Cramer +3 more
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Online Volunteering, A Way to Reduce Health Inequalities: A Review Study
Journal of Community Health Research, 2018 Introduction: Volunteering is a way for community participation and involving local social capital. Volunteering has potential to enhance wellbeing and reducing health inequalities.
Hamed Seddighi, Ibrahim Salmani
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Retaining Older Volunteers Is Key to Meeting Future Volunteer Needs [PDF]
, 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
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The national standards for volunteer involvement: 2015 [PDF]
Volunteering Australia’s new national standards for volunteer involvement update standards produced in 1998 and 2001 and provide a sound framework for supporting the volunteer sector in Australia.
Volunteering Australia
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BMJ Open, 2016 Objectives The association of volunteering with well-being has been found in previous research, but mostly among older people. The aim of this study was to examine the association of volunteering with mental well-being among the British population across
Faiza Tabassum, J. Mohan, Peter Smith
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Shipping the good apples out: a note on contributions of time and money [PDF]
This note applies insights from a famous problem in price theory, "Shipping the Good Apples Out," to expand the comparative static predictions of the model of monetary donations and volunteering developed by Andreoni, Gale and Scotz (1996).
Cyril Chang, William Smith
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