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Leadership And The Nonprofit Sector, John W. Gardner

Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management

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Toward A New Millennium: Dimensions Of Leadership In The 1990s, Reynold Levy

Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management

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An Interactive Model For Volunteerism, Nancy Hanawi

Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management

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Virtually all nonprofit organizations depend to some extent on the work of volunteers; many deliver their services entirely through volunteers. Yet research has contributed relatively little to fundamental understanding of volunteers and volunteerism, perhaps because what research has been done tends to deal with volunteerism in a narrow context. Typically, research efforts have consisted of querying a set of volunteers for one or more organizations regarding their motivation and satisfactions with respect to that particular volunteering situation. Thus what is usually being examined is the person in a specific volunteer role. In this study, what is suggested is …

Characteristics Of College Student Volunteering, Ronald W. Fagan

Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management

The focus of this paper is on college students and their attitudes, values, and activities, including altruism and volunteering. College students from a southwestern liberal arts university were sampled. We found that the students repeatedly stressed traditional, moralistic, and altruistic attitudes and values. We found relatively high levels of volunteering. We also found that students placed significant limits on their volunteering.

Commitment And Tenure Of Highly Skilled Volunteers: Management Issues In A Nonprofit Agency, Eleanor Brown, Jan Zahrly

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Recognizing that turnover in an agency's volunteer population is especially costly in the case of highly trained volunteers, we analyzed data from a nationwide survey of crisis and suicide intervention volunteers to identify variables contributing to volunteers' attachment to their crisis center. We measured attachment both as level of commitment during the volunteer's association with the center and the length their association at the time of the survey. Although little of the variation in commitment levels could be explained, statistically significant variables included two variables under management discretion, whether agencies urged volunteers not to disclose their.relationship to the center, and …