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The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations

Author : David Horton Smith,Robert A. Stebbins,Jurgen Grotz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137263179

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The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations by David Horton Smith,Robert A. Stebbins,Jurgen Grotz Pdf

Written by over 200 leading experts from over seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research on volunteering, civic participation and nonprofit membership associations. The first handbook on the subject to be truly multinational and interdisciplinary in its authorship, it represents a major milestone for the discipline. Each chapter follows a rigorous theoretical structure examining definitions, historical background, key analytical issues, usable knowledge, and future trends and required research. The nine parts of the handbook cover the historical and conceptual background of the discipline; special types of volunteering; the major activity areas of volunteering and associations; influences on volunteering and association participation; the internal structures of associations; the internal processes of associations; the external environments of associations; the scope and impacts of volunteering and associations; and conclusions and future prospects. This handbook provides an essential reference work for third-sector research and practice, including a valuable glossary of terms defining over eighty key concepts. Sponsored by the International Council of Voluntarism, Civil Society, and Social Economy Researcher Associations (ICSERA; www.icsera.org), it will appeal to scholars, policymakers and practitioners, and helps to define the emergent academic discipline of voluntaristics.

Volunteer Involvement

Author : Jurgen Grotz,Ruth Leonard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031192210

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Volunteer Involvement by Jurgen Grotz,Ruth Leonard Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice for volunteer involvement. It represents a milestone for knowledge of how and why volunteers become involved and will be essential reading for practitioners, policy makers and funders. Offering exercises and examples from practice, it introduces concepts for understanding volunteers’ agency and for critically assessing ways in which those who seek to involve volunteers can respond to rapidly changing environments. The authors draw on a combination of theoretical perspectives and practical experiences to develop approaches based on individuals and community strengths and assets, underlining the need for conviviality, respect and enjoyment in volunteer involvement.

The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies

Author : David Horton Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004371897

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The Global Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Voluntary Membership Associations on Human Societies by David Horton Smith Pdf

"Reviewed here is global research on how 13 types of Voluntary Membership Associations (MAs) have significantly or substantially had global impacts on human history, societies, and life. Such outcomes have occurred especially in the past 200+ years since the Industrial Revolution circa 1800 CE, and its accompanying Organizational Revolution. Emphasized are longer-term, historical, and societal or multinational impacts of MAs, rather than more micro-level (individual) or meso-level (organizational) outcomes. MAs are distinctively structured, with power coming from the membership, not top-down. The author has characterized MAs as the dark matter of the nonprofit/third sector, using an astrophysical metaphor. Astrophysicists have shown that most physical matter in the universe is dark in the sense of being unseen, not stars or planets."--Page 4 of cover

Ethnic/Immigrant Associations and Minorities'/Immigrants' Voluntary Participation

Author : Lili Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004361874

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Ethnic/Immigrant Associations and Minorities'/Immigrants' Voluntary Participation by Lili Wang Pdf

This article reviews the literature on ethnic/immigrant associations and minorities’ or immigrants’ voluntary participation in major developed countries that have experienced a significant increase of immigrants, particularly after the 1990s. In terms of ethnic/immigrant associations, the author reviews the historical background of research in this area, the size and scope, the formation and development, the memberships, and the financial well-being of these associations, the roles they play in helping immigrants acculturate into the host countries, and the classification of ethnic/immigrant associations. The author also reviews the literature that examines the factors influencing minorities’ and immigrants’ voluntary participation, their formal and informal volunteering, as well we immigrant youth’s voluntary participation.

The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism

Author : Kirsten Holmes,Leonie Lockstone-Binney,Karen A. Smith,Richard Shipway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000471779

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The Routledge Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism by Kirsten Holmes,Leonie Lockstone-Binney,Karen A. Smith,Richard Shipway Pdf

This timely handbook examines the most contemporary, controversial and cutting-edge issues related to the involvement of volunteers in the fields of events, sport and tourism. Split into thematic sections, the primary areas covered include: key disciplinary approaches to understanding volunteerism, international contexts, managing volunteers, the impacts and legacies of volunteering and future trends in these sectors including online and digital volunteering. Commonalities and differences of volunteering in these sectors are drawn out throughout the volume. A diverse range of case studies are examined including the 2007 UEFA Under 21 Championship hosted by Poland, the development of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the Vancouver, London and Pyeong Chang Olympic Games, Belgium’s National Day in 2019, the Puffing Billy railway in Australia, as well as many other examples looking at destination services organizations, museums, grassroots associations, corporate events, community events and visitor attractions. Drawing on the academic and practical expertise of over 50 authors from across the globe, the handbook provides an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in volunteering in these sectors, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study in order to advance volunteering research and practice in the fields of events, sport and tourism.

Handbook of Civic Engagement and Education

Author : Richard Desjardins,Susan Wiksten
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800376953

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Handbook of Civic Engagement and Education by Richard Desjardins,Susan Wiksten Pdf

Underscoring the complex relationship between civic engagement and education at all stages of life, this innovative Handbook identifies the contemporary challenges and best approaches and practices to encourage civic engagement within education.

The Multifaceted Nature of Civic Participation

Author : Ram A. Cnaan,Sohyun Park
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004308138

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The Multifaceted Nature of Civic Participation by Ram A. Cnaan,Sohyun Park Pdf

Civic participation is an ideal concept in most democratic societies. In this review, Cnaan and Park document how key writings are limited in scope and are either nonprofit, political science or environmental studies oriented. Cnaan and Park conclude with a call for future research of civic participation to be both comprehensive and sensitive.

Volunteering in Community Sports Associations

Author : Geoff Nichols
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004346291

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Volunteering in Community Sports Associations by Geoff Nichols Pdf

This review paper focuses on volunteers in community sports associations (CSAs). Such associations are a major context of sports volunteering across Europe, Canada and Australia—the countries in which a multitude of sports clubs are represented by governing bodies of sport. Their importance is not only in the large numbers of volunteers involved but also in the benefits of such associations to society.

The Nonprofit Sector in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia

Author : David Horton Smith,Alisa Moldavanova,Svitlana Krasynska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004380622

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The Nonprofit Sector in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia by David Horton Smith,Alisa Moldavanova,Svitlana Krasynska Pdf

The Nonprofit Sector in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia uniquely provides a timely overview of research on the nonprofit sector and nonprofit organizations in eleven former Soviet republics, with each central chapter written by local experts.

Arts Nonprofits--Associations and Agencies

Author : Robert A. Stebbins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004423848

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Arts Nonprofits--Associations and Agencies by Robert A. Stebbins Pdf

Publications on arts-related amateur, hobbyist, some professional, and mixed-member associations and some agencies are reviewed. Their mission is to foster, present, and sometimes chronicle the art its members prize. Excluded from this review are the studies of art support organizations.

Self-Help/Mutual Aid Groups and Peer Support

Author : Thomasina Borkman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004448001

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Self-Help/Mutual Aid Groups and Peer Support by Thomasina Borkman Pdf

Social science research on self-help/mutual aid groups and organizations from 1960 on is reviewed. Voluntary peer-run mutually supportive groups’ diversity illustrated through Alcoholics Anonymous, mental health groups and others. Socio-political contexts shape self-help/mutual aid. Borkman’s autoethnographic narrative highlights her participation.

Philanthropy in Contemporary Africa

Author : Jacob Mwathi Mati
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004339941

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Philanthropy in Contemporary Africa by Jacob Mwathi Mati Pdf

This review contributes to a growing body of literature on conceptions and manifestations of African philanthropy. The review illustrates a complex plurality of actions that fall under cultures and practices of giving in Africa. From an analysis of these practices, this paper proposes that African philanthropy can be conceptually structured on the basis of spheres of philanthropic practice, and the underlying bases and motivations for philanthropy.

Civic Engagement in Scandinavia

Author : Lars Skov Henriksen,Kristin Strømsnes,Lars Svedberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319987170

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Civic Engagement in Scandinavia by Lars Skov Henriksen,Kristin Strømsnes,Lars Svedberg Pdf

Since the 1990’s, a number of studies have documented a remarkable high and stable amount of popular engagement in civic organizations in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Often these countries have been considered deviant cases against the proliferating decline of social capital studies. However, despite great international interest in the Scandinavian region, the volume argues that the civil societies and the civic engagement of these countries remain poorly understood. Most interest in the Scandinavian welfare models addresses the balance between state and market, but under communicates the role played by civil society and popular engagement in associations and voluntary organizations. The contributions offer a coherent portrait of stability and change in formal and informal forms of civic engagement over the past 25 years as well as offering contextualized knowledge of the history and institutional design in which Scandinavian civil societies are embedded.

Technology in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

Author : John McNutt,Chao Guo,Lauri Goldkind,Seongho An
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004378124

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Technology in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action by John McNutt,Chao Guo,Lauri Goldkind,Seongho An Pdf

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are major forces shaping our current age. ICT affects many areas of human existence and influences the both human wellbeing and human evil. The nonprofit sector is already heavily involved in technology both as a way to pursue its mission and as an influential factor in the evolution of the sector. This article examines how technology affects the sector and how the sector uses technology in its work.

Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations

Author : Thomas Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351977494

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Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations by Thomas Davies Pdf

Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also the array of religious, professional, and business associations that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO) community. Including perspectives from multiple world regions, the book takes account of institutions in the Global South, alongside better-known structures of the Global North. International contributors from a range of disciplines cover all the major aspects of research into NGOs in International Relations to present: a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of NGOs, the range of structural forms and international networks coverage of major theoretical perspectives illustrations of how NGOs are influential in every prominent issue-area of contemporary International Relations evaluation of the significant regional variations among NGOs and how regional contexts influence the nature and impact of NGOs analysis of the ways NGOs address authoritarianism, terrorism, and challenges to democracy, and how NGOs handle concerns surrounding their own legitimacy and accountability. Exploring contrasting theories, regional dimensions, and a wide range of contemporary challenges facing NGOs, this Handbook will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners alike.