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Showing 1 to 20 of 903 for “"volunteer"”.
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Volunteer Firefighting
… and participant observation, I examined volunteer firefighting, an embattled form of voluntarism that remains essential in America's smaller communities. The firefighters provided insights about their work, the organization and social structure of their department, and how they manage …
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Volunteer computing
This thesis presents the idea of volunteer computing, which allows high-performance parallel computing networks to be formed easily, quickly, and inexpensively by enabling ordinary Internet users to share their computers' idle processing power without needing expert help. In recent years, projects …
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What motivates college students to volunteer? using the Volunteer Functions Inventory.
… motivates college students to participate in volunteer work. The Volunteer Functions Inventory was used to have students rate their beliefs about what would influence them to volunteer. A sample of 184 subjects (67 male & 115 female, two participants did not disclose their gender) were …
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Identifying effective strategies for developing leadership and management skills in volunteer volunteer managers
… thesis investigates how organisations support volunteers to develop the skills of those volunteers who lead and/or manage other volunteers, or volunteer volunteer managers (VVMs). There is little research into volunteer management/leadership (Posner, 2015) and most research is based on the …
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Characteristics of Volunteer Leaders in the American Dietetic Association Compared to Non-Volunteer Registered Dietitians
… to compare them to registered dietitians not in volunteer leadership roles and their managers. <br /><strong>Design</strong> A cross-sectional survey of volunteer leaders and those who have never volunteered as leaders in ADA. <br /><strong>Subjects/setting</strong> The study sample included …
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Volunteer tourism and development : an impact assessment of volunteer tourists from two organisations in Cape Town
Includes bibliographical references.
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The Ulster Volunteer Force 1912-4.
The aim of this work is to examine the evolution and role of the U.V.F. in Ulster from 1912-4. In the opening chapter the sectarianism that plagued Ulster during the Home Rule crisis is discussed. The work focuses on Castledawson in Londonderry, where an alleged attack by Hibernians against …
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‘Return on[boarding] investment’: Exploring volunteer onboarding experiences on newcomer behaviours and implications for volunteer board performance
… of the onboarding experiences (OE) of newcomer volunteers in a volunteer leadership context is lacking in current volunteer management and governance research. Through a lens of socialization and self-efficacy principles, this study aims to address whether OE can be an interceding influence for …
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Decolonizing Natural History Museums Through Volunteer Engagement
… of the organization. This includes the museum’s volunteer program. Volunteer programs are often vital to the success and even existence of a museum. Yet, in general, volunteerism in the Western world, has strong connections to inequity and white privilege. The purpose of this study was to …
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Volunteer Spotlighting: Costly Signaling to Promote Volunteerism
… of attention to, and recognition of, volunteers through social media. I predicted that the costliness of spotlighted behavior and the target signal clarity (i.e., individual vs. group spotlight) would interact with participants’ dispositional dominance and prestige-based status motives …
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The urban/suburban wildlife survey volunteer project
<p>This study examined attitudes of volunteers in the Urban/Suburban Volunteer Project. Volunteers for this project surveyed for bird species for the New Jersey Endangered and Nongame Species Program in Urban New Jersey areas. This project was considered unsuccessful by the Endangered and Nongame …
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Disaster relief vehicle routing with volunteer coverage
… in the operations: specifically, we often see volunteers who are willing to offer their help and services. In this work, we present a series of vehicle routing problems exploiting this notion of volunteers who are able to optionally provide aid to surrounding areas. We incorporate human …
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Essays on volunteer mobilization in peer production
… -- like Wikipedia and Linux -- build large volunteer communities and high-quality information goods, the vast majority of attempts at peer production never even attract a second contributor. This dissertation is composed of three essays that describe and test theories on the sources and …
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Volunteer Labor Supply and Liability of Volunteers
This paper examines factors affecting volunteer labor supply with two specific goals: (1) a reassessment of the model and empirical process outlined by Paul Menchik and Burton Weisbrod using a larger data set from a more recent time period; and (2) an exploration of how volunteer labor supply is …
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Campaigns of a veteran volunteer organization: the service of the 5th New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry, Duryee's Zouaves, 1863-1865
… in the Army of the Potomac. The 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, Duryée's Zouaves, returned home to be mustered out of service. In the fall of 1863, after being reorganized in the Manhattan area, the 5th New York again took the field as a battalion with four companies of veteran men under the …
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Civic Habits: A Predictive Model of Volunteer Behavior
The findings of this research indicate that volunteering is influenced by a number of factors, one of which is gender. The data used in this study reveal a different profile of the volunteer than is presented in much of the research on volunteering, which tends to profile the "most likely" …
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