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Volunteering and society in the 21st century / Colin Rocherster [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230210589
  • 9780230210585
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.14 22
LOC classification:
  • HN49.V64 V63885 2010
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Making Sense of Volunteering: Perspectives, principles and definitions -- 3. Capturing the Diversity of Voluntary Action -- 4. Profiling Voluntary Action: Who does what? -- 5. UK Volunteering in International Perspective -- 6. A Changing Society -- 7. Government and Volunteering: Towards a history of policy and practice -- 8. The Changing Face of Volunteering: Current and future trends -- 9. Motivation and Recruitment: Why and how do volunteers come? -- 10. Rewards and Retention: Why do volunteers stay? -- 11. Issues of Coordination and Management: How can the activities of volunteers be best organised? -- 12. Measuring the Impact of Volunteering -- 13. Changing the Image of Volunteering -- 14. Making Volunteering Inclusive -- 15. Maintaining the Independence of Voluntary Action -- 16. Defending the Spirit of Volunteering from Formalisation -- 17. Voluntary Action in the 21st Century.
Summary: "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 volunteering in today's world"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-266) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Making Sense of Volunteering: Perspectives, principles and definitions -- 3. Capturing the Diversity of Voluntary Action -- 4. Profiling Voluntary Action: Who does what? -- 5. UK Volunteering in International Perspective -- 6. A Changing Society -- 7. Government and Volunteering: Towards a history of policy and practice -- 8. The Changing Face of Volunteering: Current and future trends -- 9. Motivation and Recruitment: Why and how do volunteers come? -- 10. Rewards and Retention: Why do volunteers stay? -- 11. Issues of Coordination and Management: How can the activities of volunteers be best organised? -- 12. Measuring the Impact of Volunteering -- 13. Changing the Image of Volunteering -- 14. Making Volunteering Inclusive -- 15. Maintaining the Independence of Voluntary Action -- 16. Defending the Spirit of Volunteering from Formalisation -- 17. Voluntary Action 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 volunteering in today's world"--Provided by publisher.

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