Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/63445
Title: Exploring the Economic and Social Value of Present Patterns of Volunteering in Australia
Contributor(s): Bittman, Michael  (author)orcid ; Fisher, Kimberly (author)
Publication Date: 2006
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1728569
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/63445
Abstract: 

This report begins by exploring grey areas at the edges of the definition of volunteering. The term ‘volunteer’ generally designates a person who provides services or benefits to others for motivations other than financial or material reward. Volunteering has also been seen as an activity taking place within the confines of formal organisations promoting a range of good causes. This report sets out the case for expanding the definition of volunteering to include not only formal activity within charitable organisations but also volunteering for emergency services, informal charitable acts undertaken outside the bounds of organisations, and unpaid care of adults with disabilities and the frail elderly. Through the remainder of this summary, the term volunteering should be taken to encompass all these forms of voluntary activity. Nevertheless, the majority of analysis in this report explicitly separates volunteering within organisations (formal volunteering) from other forms of volunteering (unpaid care, unpaid work in the emergency services, and informally helping other people from outside one’s household or the wider community).

Publication Type: Report
Publisher: Social Science Electronic Publishing
Place of Publication: Australia
ISBN: 1921130075
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 4410 Sociology
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: R1 Report
Extent of Pages: 78
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