Volunteering and society in the 21st century
Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make are at a new high. This book aims to meet this interest by bringing together in one volume what is known about the phenomenon of volunteering; the principles and practice of involving volunteers, and the enduring challenges for volunteer...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan
2010
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Making sense of volunteering : perspectives, principles and definitions
- Capturing the diversity of voluntary action
- Profiling voluntary action : who does what?
- UK volunteering in international perspective
- A changing society
- Government and volunteering : towards a history of policy and practice
- The changing face of volunteering : current and future trends
- Motivation and recruitment : why and how do volunteers come?
- Rewards and retention : why do volunteers stay?
- Issues of coordination and management : how can the activities of volunteers be best organised?
- Measuring the impact of volunteering
- Changing the image of volunteering
- Making volunteering inclusive
- Maintaining the independence of voluntary action
- Defending the spirit of volunteering from formalisation
- Voluntary action in the 21st century.
