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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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Veterinary Record, 2022
Research shows that acts of kindness benefit both the giver and the receiver, creating a virtuous circle of improved wellbeing.
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Research shows that acts of kindness benefit both the giver and the receiver, creating a virtuous circle of improved wellbeing.
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The professional volunteer versus the volunteer professional
Community Mental Health Journal, 1970This paper reviews some partial findings of on empirical study relating to the differential perceptions laymen and professionals have of each other. Such differences are accounted for by reference to professional norms associated with clinical and/or community organizational practice.
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No corporate volunteering without volunteers
International Journal of Business Environment, 2011Corporate volunteering literature often focuses on the strategic side, the C of corporate volunteering (CV). We state that psychological volunteering research may complement CV research regarding its understanding of the V of CV. In an attempt to substantiate our claim 'no corporate volunteering without volunteers', this article raises three concerns ...
Susan Van Schie +2 more
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New England Journal of Medicine, 2006
Clinical research can be a risky endeavor. In this issue of the Journal, Suntharalingam et al.1 describe the events that occurred when six healthy volunteers received a dose (0.1 mg per kilogram of body weight) of TGN1412 — a superagonistic humanized monoclonal antibody that stimulates and expands T-cell populations independently of the ligation of the
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Clinical research can be a risky endeavor. In this issue of the Journal, Suntharalingam et al.1 describe the events that occurred when six healthy volunteers received a dose (0.1 mg per kilogram of body weight) of TGN1412 — a superagonistic humanized monoclonal antibody that stimulates and expands T-cell populations independently of the ligation of the
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