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Why watch bees? Motivations of citizen science volunteers in the Great Pollinator Project
Biological Conservation, 2017Margret C. Domroese, Elizabeth B Johnson
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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2023
This study addresses the process experienced by youth who started out as volunteering beneficiaries in treatment settings and became volunteers for at-risk youth themselves. Using the phenomenological approach, the study included 10 Israeli interviewees aged 20 to 30 who were regular volunteers.
Yitzhak Ben Yair +3 more
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This study addresses the process experienced by youth who started out as volunteering beneficiaries in treatment settings and became volunteers for at-risk youth themselves. Using the phenomenological approach, the study included 10 Israeli interviewees aged 20 to 30 who were regular volunteers.
Yitzhak Ben Yair +3 more
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Build it and they will come: Volunteer opportunities and volunteering
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2023AbstractFormal volunteering refers to an individual's unpaid contribution of time to the activities of a charitable or non‐profit organization. While the physical presence of these organizations is usually required for citizens who want to volunteer, neighbourhoods vary with respect to the amount of volunteering opportunities available.
Catherine Deri Armstrong +2 more
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The effects of volunteering on the young volunteer
The Journal of Primary Prevention, 1996This article reviews some of the best researched volunteer service programs for adolescents and addresses three major questions: 1) What do existing data tell us about the effectiveness of community volunteer service programs in positively influencing the lives of the participants? 2) What do we know about why such programs work?
C W, Moore, J P, Allen
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Volunteering and the State [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three channels for crowding out of voluntary labor.
Hackl, Franz +2 more
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Retaining volunteers in volunteer computing projects
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2010Volunteer computing projects (VCPs) have been set up by groups of scientists to recruit members of the public who are asked to donate spare capacity on their personal computers to the processing of scientific data or computationally intensive models.
Peter, Darch, Annamaria, Carusi
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The volunteer matrix: positioning of volunteer organizations
International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 2010Abstract In the fierce competition that volunteer involving organizations face nowadays over people's willingness to donate their time, marketing strategies should be used. In order to enhance the organization's recruitability (ability to recruit suitable volunteers), it is important for volunteer organizations to understand what the positioning of ...
Meijs, Lucas, Haski-Leventhal, D
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Volunteering for charity: Pride, respect, and the commitment of volunteers.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 2007This study builds upon and extends the social-identity-based model of cooperation with the organization (T. R. Tyler, 1999; T. R. Tyler & S. L. Blader, 2000) to examine commitment and cooperative intent among fundraising volunteers. In Study 1, structural equation modeling indicated that pride and respect related to the intent to remain a volunteer ...
Boezeman, Edwin J, Ellemers, Naomi
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