Ideal Workers, Supporting Actors, or Thrill Seekers? How Coworker Demands Influence Ambulance Volunteers' Experiences of Freedom and Meaningful Work [0.03%] 理想工人,辅助行动者还是寻求刺激者?同事的需求如何影响救护车志愿者对工作自由和意义的体验
Kirstie McAllum Kirstie McAllum
For nonprofit organizations (NPOs) struggling to attract adequate numbers of volunteers, examining what makes nonprofit engagement meaningful is essential because disenchanted volunteers can simply quit. Yet, the assumption that freedom is ...
Using a Feminist Approach to Classify Women and Girls' Charitable Organisations [0.03%] 使用女权主义方法对女子慈善组织进行分类
Lorna Dowrick Lorna Dowrick
Women and girls' organisations (WGOs) are a fundamental part of the voluntary and community sector (VCS) and wider society. They have a unique history and development as a sub-set of the wider VCS and have been pivotal in meeting important ...
Dominik Karner,Florentine Maier,Michael Meyer Dominik Karner
We investigate how nonprofit organizations (NPOs) construct imaginaries of their premises, their local environment, and beyond. Based on a qualitative analysis of the websites of 209 randomly sampled NPOs in a metropolitan region in Central...
The Mediating Role of Migrant Community-Based Organizations: Challenges and Coping Strategies [0.03%] 移民社区组织的中介作用:挑战与应对策略
Sara Martinez-Damia,Daniela Marzana,Virginia Paloma et al. Sara Martinez-Damia et al.
Migrant community-based organizations (MCBOs) are key mediating structures between immigrants and host societies. However, when implementing this role in host societies, MCBOs often face a number of challenges that reduce their chances to b...
Exploring the Effects of Volunteering on the Social, Mental, and Physical Health and Well-being of Volunteers: An Umbrella Review [0.03%] 志愿者服务对志愿者社会、心理和身体健康及幸福感影响的伞式综述研究
Beth Nichol,Rob Wilson,Angela Rodrigues et al. Beth Nichol et al.
Volunteering provides unique benefits to organisations, recipients, and potentially the volunteers themselves. This umbrella review examined the benefits of volunteering and their potential moderators. Eleven databases were searched for sys...
Impacts of Systems Thinking on Mission When Environmental Nonprofit Organizations Encounter the Complex Systems Problem of Homelessness [0.03%] 系统思维对环境非营利组织遇到复杂系统问题时的影响——以无家可归为例
Shawn Teresa Flanigan Shawn Teresa Flanigan
The article examines how nonprofit organization staff navigate organizational mission as they encounter complex systems problems outside their area of expertise, focusing on environmental organizations encountering homelessness in river wat...
Assessing the 'Why' in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations [0.03%] 评估难民志愿服务的“动机”:探索志愿者动力机制
Maikel Meijeren,Marcel Lubbers,Peer Scheepers Maikel Meijeren
This article addresses what motivations volunteers have for volunteering for refugees and whether these motivations differ from or complement motivations to volunteer in general, such as included in the widely used measurement instrument, t...
Nonprofits for Cohesive Cities: Neighborhood Characteristics, Organizational Practices, and their Effects on Social and Systemic Integration [0.03%] 促进融合的城市非营利组织:社区特征、组织惯例及其对社会整合和系统整合的影响
Dominik Karner,Michael Meyer,Lisa Schmidthuber et al. Dominik Karner et al.
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) contribute to vital neighborhoods by building communities of citizens and acting as intermediaries between citizens and organizations. We investigate how NPOs' engagement in social and systemic integration is ...
Charitable Giving in Times of Covid-19: Do Crises Forward the Better or the Worse in Individuals? [0.03%] 新冠疫情下的慈善捐赠:危机是激发人的善良本性还是丑陋嘴脸?
Julia Litofcenko,Michael Meyer,Michaela Neumayr et al. Julia Litofcenko et al.
Why did some individuals react to the Covid-19 crisis in a prosocial manner, whereas others withdrew from society? To shed light onto this question, we investigate changing patterns of charitable giving during the pandemic. The study analyz...
Robyn E Gulliver,Charlie Pittaway,Kelly S Fielding et al. Robyn E Gulliver et al.
Environmental activism organizations depend on recruiting and retaining individuals willing to engage in leadership tasks on a voluntary basis. This study examined the resources which help or hinder sustained environmental volunteer activis...