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 practiceof involving volunteers, and the enduring challenges for volunteering in today's world. INDICE: 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 b Current and Future Trends - Motivation and Recruitment: Why and How do Volunteers Come? - Rewards andRetention: Why do Volunteers Stay? - Issues of Co-ordination and Management: How Can the Activities of Volunteers be Best Organised? - Measuring the Impactof 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 - References
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21058-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés