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The community building potential of volunteerism
by Mary Merrill

A Red Cross volunteer helps out in a refugee camp in Chechnya. (Courtesy: IFRC) Sixty years ago people volunteered as part of a group. They joined clubs or organizations that promoted or required service as an expectation of membership. Social bonds formed by working together. People do not tend to join groups today. Volunteerism is an individualized, private, self-induced activity.

Have managers of today’s volunteers eroded the community-building nature of volunteerism by redesigning volunteer work into more short term individualized, episodic opportunities? In our efforts to attract busy people, have we streamlined the way we work so that volunteers can pick and choose, move in and out, and remain relatively autonomous? More...
From: Merrill Associates
 

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