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The Invisible Weavers: Women Volunteers Creating Community Fabric, Lorie Anne Fioze
The Invisible Weavers: Women Volunteers Creating Community Fabric, Lorie Anne Fioze
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
In this study I examined women's caring in community volunteer work in the context of a neighbourhood community centre. More specifically I studied what women's volunteer experience at the Chandler-Mowat Community Centre (CMCC) revealed about: (1) Motivators what motivated women to participate in community volunteer work, (2) Facilitators what personal, family organizational, community and social factors facilitated women's involvement in volunteer work, (3) Barriers what personal, family, organizational, community and social factors inhibited women's involvement in community volunteer work, (4) Positive and Negative Impacts what the positive and negative impacts of women's volunteer involvement on the women themselves, their families, …