Informal Volunteering and Socialization Effects: Examining Modelling and Encouragement by Parents and PartnerVoluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - Tập 33 - Trang 347-361 - 2021
Marlou J. M. Ramaekers, Ellen Verbakel, Gerbert Kraaykamp
Informal volunteering is seen as an important indicator of social relations and community life. We therefore investigate the impact of various socialization practices on informal volunteering, being small helping behaviours outside of organizations for people outside the household. From theoretical notions on socialization, we hypothesize that experiencing extensive prosocial socialization practic...... hiện toàn bộ
The Relationship Between Food Banks and Food Insecurity: Insights from CanadaVoluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - Tập 31 - Trang 841-852 - 2019
Valerie Tarasuk, Andrée-Anne Fafard St-Germain, Rachel Loopstra
Food banks have become the first line of response to problems of hunger and food insecurity in affluent nations. Although originating in the USA, food banks are now well established in Canada, Australia, and some Nordic countries, and they have rapidly expanded in the UK and other parts of Europe in the past two decades. Defined by the mobilization of food donations and volunteer labor within comm...... hiện toàn bộ
Who are Volunteers in Urban China?Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - - 2021
Fengqin Liu, Xiulan Zhang
AbstractAlthough government-organized volunteering is common in China, the Chinese government has also sought to encourage the development of grassroots volunteer service organizations (VSOs) given the tremendous social service burden and the complexity of social governance. Motivated by the lack of systematic studies on volunteering in China, this study explores p...... hiện toàn bộ
Intermediary Perceptions of Investment Readiness in the UK Social Investment MarketVoluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - Tập 26 - Trang 846-871 - 2014
Richard Hazenberg, Fred Seddon, Simon Denny
The ‘social investment market’ in the United Kingdom is a growth area due to the governments’ focus upon building up the supply-side element of the market over the last decade, often through the direct financing of ‘Social and Investment Finance Intermediaries’ (SIFIs). However, this ignores problems that can occur on the demand-side of the social investment market, such as a lack of ‘investment r...... hiện toàn bộ
The Role of the Nonprofit Sector in Hong Kong's DevelopmentVoluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - Tập 11 - Trang 355-373
James L. Perry, Wai-Fung Lam
The recent handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China (PRC) brought Hong Kong worldwide attention and scrutiny. In the run up to the handover, the international media prominently featured stories about Hong Kong's freewheeling capitalism and the stability created by its administrative institutions. Lost in the media attention was the role of nonprofit organizations and the voluntary s...... hiện toàn bộ