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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"volunteerism"”.
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Representative Volunteerism in Museums
<p>While increasing diversity is becoming more commonplace, it still remains a difficult subject to approach and handle effectively and correctly. This project is important because it will help to remove the invisible barriers that make institutions categorize groups based on race, class, gender, …
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Volunteer Spotlighting: Costly Signaling to Promote Volunteerism
… and prestige-based status motives to influence volunteerism interest. To explore these associations, participants were randomly assigned to one of four spotlight media post conditions on a between participants basis that manipulated target signal clarity (individual or a group) and volunteerism …
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Volunteerism in Crisis: AmeriCorps as Disaster Response
<p>AmeriCorps, the federal volunteer program developed in 1993, has won increasing political and cultural support since its development. Hurricane Katrina challenged program administrators to recruit and support volunteers in New Orleans, a uniquely devastated city. This qualitative study based on …
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Önkéntesség és közösségfejlesztés = Volunteerism and community development
Dolgozatom központi témája az önkéntesség, annak mind a formális (szervezeti), mind az informális (szervezeten kívüli) változata. Magyarországon a rendszerváltás óta egy sor tanulmány született az önkéntességről, és ismert annak formális és informális csoportosítása is, e dichotómia mégis …
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An Examination of Volunteerism: Teacher Expectations and Parent Involvement.
<p>The intent of this qualitative research was to learn from teachers and parents: to hear from teachers what they truly needed in the school with regard to parent involvement and to hear from parents the ways in which schools could extend a more effective welcome and the types of activities in …
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Volunteerism and Marital Quality Among LDS Senior Missionary Couples
… research has been conducted on marriage and volunteerism in later life, little is known about the impact of volunteerism on marital quality, particularly intense volunteer experiences. Missionary couples for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) leave their homes for a period …
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Worked to Leisure: The Intersections of Volunteerism, Work, and Leisure
<p>Volunteerism and work are topics which academics in several disciplines research. This study is an examination of the intersection of work and volunteerism via the lens of role theory. According to role theorists, the term role refers to behaviors which are either a result of social position or …
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Variants of Volunteerism among Mature Adults within Communities of Northeast Tennessee.
… in Northeast Tennessee examined variants of volunteerism as well as volunteer needs of agencies and organizations and what percent of volunteers in those agencies fall within the specified age group. Mature volunteers in the region match profiles of other studies -- predominantly white, …
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Globalization On the Ground: Health, Development, and Volunteerism in Meatu, Tanzania
AHEAD (Adventures in Health, Education, and Agricultural Development) is a small grass-roots non-governmental organization working in the rural Meatu, District in Northern Tanzania. The AHEAD project employs Tanzanian nurses who provide health education, child weighing and nutritional counseling, …
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Volunteers in America: How Volunteerism and American Civil Society Shape Our Museums
<p>This thesis examines the intersection of volunteerism, museum studies, and American civil society, using these frameworks to examine volunteer motivations within two Denver area art museums. Additionally, there is much current scholarship that focuses on the relationship between museums and …
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Analyzing the Motivational Needs of Volunteerism Among Virginia Adult 4-H Volunteers
… needs that contribute to Virginia adult 4-H volunteerism. This quantitative research study was designed to fill a gap in the current volunteer literature regarding our understanding of the motivational needs of Virginia adult 4-H volunteers. The following research questions guided this study: …
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Making The Invisible Visible: Capturing the Multidimensional Value of Volunteerism to Nonprofit Organizations
… can contribute to a holistic understanding of volunteerism that supports more strategic volunteer practices and more robust explanations of volunteer value.</p>
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Teaching altruism: essays examining the impact of education on volunteerism among young adults
… that each examine the impact of education on the volunteerism of young adults. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: All Work and No Pay Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, there has been a steady increase in the overall volunteering rate among youth. Much of …
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The role of required volunteerism and service-learning on student perceptions of civic responsibility
… of knowledge on service-learning pedagogy and volunteerism. The findings indicated that implementing a graduation service requirement and service-learning curriculum was not effective in altering students’ perceptions of civic responsibility. However, the number of service hours completed and …
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Volunteerism and Charitable Giving among the Millennial Generation: How to Attract and Retain Millennials
<p> <p>Nonprofit organizations play an important role in today’s society. These organizations provide support to many in need and fill voids left by the governmental services. For nonprofit organizations to work efficiently and effectively, these organizations need to be able to attract and retain …
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The Armor of Democracy: Volunteerism on the Home Front in World War II California
… is an in-depth study on the role of Home Front Volunteerism in California during World War II. It argues that Volunteerism was integral to America’s eventual victory. This paper fills a gap in historical writings on World War II and shows that Volunteerism is a topic worthy of study. …
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Servants or saviors? : exploring the impact of international volunteerism on host communities and volunteers.
International volunteer service (IVS) has rapidly expanded in the last decade among its volunteer participants and sponsoring agencies. Scholars have diverse opinions on the efficacy and ethics of IVS. Proponents suggest that IVS brings a humanity to development that might otherwise be focused on …
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Three municipal park system case study: relative comparison of public participation/volunteerism impact on park system vision, budget, and operation
Volunteers provide enormous benefits to organizations and charities in the United States and throughout the world. In many different areas there has been a surge or research to better understand the value and impact that volunteers have on the organizations that they serve but little is known about …
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