Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000024
H. Trætteberg, Rune Ervik
This article reviews all published English-language articles concerning collective co-production of welfare services in the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway, which are countries representing different welfare regimes. The review identifies facilitators for collective co-production and inductively identifies four themes that are important for successful collective co-production: (1) the motivation individuals have for engaging in collective co-production, (2) the institutional contextual conditions for co-production, (3) the relational conditions for co-production, and (4) the facilitation of different effects of co-production. No studies have investigated why public sector entities or voluntary sector organisations choose to engage in co-production, and we lack studies that compare sectors with different institutional settings.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000024
H. Trætteberg, Rune Ervik
This article reviews all published English-language articles concerning collective co-production of welfare services in the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway, which are countries representing different welfare regimes. The review identifies facilitators for collective co-production and inductively identifies four themes that are important for successful collective co-production: (1) the motivation individuals have for engaging in collective co-production, (2) the institutional contextual conditions for co-production, (3) the relational conditions for co-production, and (4) the facilitation of different effects of co-production. No studies have investigated why public sector entities or voluntary sector organisations choose to engage in co-production, and we lack studies that compare sectors with different institutional settings.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000025
Nikos Kourachanis
This article attempts to study the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in homelessness services in Greece. The central argument is that the expansion of NGOs is a specific aspect of the trends in contemporary social policy. The prevalence of the neoliberal welfare state has brought about structural changes, such as the process of the recommodification and ‘NGOisation’ of social policy, the consolidation of individual responsibility and a focus on the management of extreme poverty. Through a review of the scholarly literature and fieldwork on NGOs involved in homelessness services in Athens, it is argued that many of these characteristics are reflected in the Greek case. The focus of NGOs on emergency services for homeless people, the development of a competitive environment, the dependence for their sustainability and practices on the guidelines set by donors, and the fragmentation of labour relations among their employees are some of the outcomes of this neoliberal direction.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000025
Nikos Kourachanis
This article attempts to study the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in homelessness services in Greece. The central argument is that the expansion of NGOs is a specific aspect of the trends in contemporary social policy. The prevalence of the neoliberal welfare state has brought about structural changes, such as the process of the recommodification and ‘NGOisation’ of social policy, the consolidation of individual responsibility and a focus on the management of extreme poverty. Through a review of the scholarly literature and fieldwork on NGOs involved in homelessness services in Athens, it is argued that many of these characteristics are reflected in the Greek case. The focus of NGOs on emergency services for homeless people, the development of a competitive environment, the dependence for their sustainability and practices on the guidelines set by donors, and the fragmentation of labour relations among their employees are some of the outcomes of this neoliberal direction.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000023
Geoff Nichols
This discussion paper considers reasons for a decline in formal volunteering in the UK, which include: a trend away from collective to individual social activity, an increase in inequality, a reduction in available time, and a crowding out of social values by market values. It then considers if this decline could be reversed.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000022
Sophie Wilson
In recent years a plethora of job roles has emerged across the voluntary and community sector (VCS) and public sector that explicitly request lived experience (LE) of mental health challenges. These roles are often situated in the ‘frontline’ workforce providing direct support to people accessing services. This article shares early learning about the experiences of people who have lived experience of mental health challenges employed as paid peer support workers (PSWs) within a mental health charity. The findings are drawn from fieldwork conducted over a three-month period with five recently employed PSWs, conducted as a component of the author’s doctoral study. The data corpus included interviews, fieldwork observation notes from ‘walk the frontline’ (WTF) activities, and the collation of WhatsApp voice notes sent by the PSWs to the researcher. The article presents nine key themes that emerged from the data and categorises these into three areas: Firm up – those that were broadly positive denoting good practice; Fine tune – those that require further refinement; and Focus – those which signal a need for concentrated attention and further exploration. Taking these findings into account, a tentative schematic model is offered which suggests sequential ‘conditions’ to be considered when developing PSW programmes. This has relevance to voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) who are considering recruiting and deploying PSWs to support frontline service delivery.
{"title":"Early experiences of peer support workers starting employment in a mental health charity: a case study","authors":"Sophie Wilson","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2024d000000022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2024d000000022","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years a plethora of job roles has emerged across the voluntary and community sector (VCS) and public sector that explicitly request lived experience (LE) of mental health challenges. These roles are often situated in the ‘frontline’ workforce providing direct support to people accessing services. This article shares early learning about the experiences of people who have lived experience of mental health challenges employed as paid peer support workers (PSWs) within a mental health charity.\u0000The findings are drawn from fieldwork conducted over a three-month period with five recently employed PSWs, conducted as a component of the author’s doctoral study. The data corpus included interviews, fieldwork observation notes from ‘walk the frontline’ (WTF) activities, and the collation of WhatsApp voice notes sent by the PSWs to the researcher.\u0000The article presents nine key themes that emerged from the data and categorises these into three areas: Firm up – those that were broadly positive denoting good practice; Fine tune – those that require further refinement; and Focus – those which signal a need for concentrated attention and further exploration.\u0000Taking these findings into account, a tentative schematic model is offered which suggests sequential ‘conditions’ to be considered when developing PSW programmes. This has relevance to voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) who are considering recruiting and deploying PSWs to support frontline service delivery.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141270342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000021
Adam Finkel-Gates
This paper investigates financial management within Scottish charities, emphasising the challenges faced in external scrutiny, comparative financial information, and accounting practices. It employs a survey and a review by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator to assess impacts on smaller charities, highlighting issues with transparency and compliance. The study advocates for policy interventions and capacity building to improve sector resilience and transparency, thus enhancing effectiveness and sustainability in the voluntary sector.
{"title":"Navigating financial management challenges in the Scottish charity sector: insights and strategic approaches","authors":"Adam Finkel-Gates","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2024d000000021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2024d000000021","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates financial management within Scottish charities, emphasising the challenges faced in external scrutiny, comparative financial information, and accounting practices. It employs a survey and a review by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator to assess impacts on smaller charities, highlighting issues with transparency and compliance. The study advocates for policy interventions and capacity building to improve sector resilience and transparency, thus enhancing effectiveness and sustainability in the voluntary sector.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140961851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-25DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000018
Rafeel Wasif, Shariq A. Siddiqui, Zeeshan Noor
Social media enables nonprofits to communicate with stakeholders. Literature has primarily focused on the social media communication of mostly large and secular nonprofit organisations. This study contributes to this literature by looking at nonprofits’ social media activity belonging to religious minorities, specifically the Muslim-American nonprofit sector. Using Lovejoy and Saxton’s (2012) Hierarchy of Engagement framework, we find that Muslim-American nonprofits conventionally use social media for information, community, and action messaging. However, these nonprofits also utilise social media to encourage religious practices and strongly advocate for Muslim rights. We also find that organisational identity affects social media framing as organisational type affects the type of topics these organisations pick to advocate on social media. Moreover, organisational size also affects social media activity, as smaller organisations are more likely to use social media for fundraising purposes.
社交媒体使非营利组织能够与利益相关者进行沟通。相关文献主要关注的是大型世俗非营利组织的社交媒体传播。本研究通过研究宗教少数群体，特别是美国穆斯林非营利组织的非营利组织的社交媒体活动，为这些文献做出了贡献。利用 Lovejoy 和 Saxton（2012 年）的 "参与层次"（Hierarchy of Engagement）框架，我们发现美国穆斯林非营利组织通常使用社交媒体传递信息、社区和行动信息。不过，这些非营利组织也利用社交媒体鼓励宗教活动，并大力倡导穆斯林权利。我们还发现，组织身份会影响社交媒体的框架，因为组织类型会影响这些组织在社交媒体上倡导的主题类型。此外，组织规模也会影响社交媒体活动，因为规模较小的组织更有可能将社交媒体用于筹款目的。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000020
Iwona Nowakowska, Ewa Duda, Michał Szulawski
Corporate volunteering, despite its benefits for the enterprises, supported people, and the volunteers themselves, is still not popular in Polish medium-sized and large companies. In this paper, we explore how people with/without experience in corporate volunteering perceive circumstances that would encourage them to join this activity, and the benefits of it to employers, beneficiaries, and themselves. Our insight may help to plan corporate volunteering programmes, especially for employers and nonprofit organisations collaborating with enterprises.
{"title":"Why should I decide to engage? Polish medium-sized and large companies employees’ opinions about joining corporate volunteering and its benefits","authors":"Iwona Nowakowska, Ewa Duda, Michał Szulawski","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2024d000000020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2024d000000020","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate volunteering, despite its benefits for the enterprises, supported people, and the volunteers themselves, is still not popular in Polish medium-sized and large companies. In this paper, we explore how people with/without experience in corporate volunteering perceive circumstances that would encourage them to join this activity, and the benefits of it to employers, beneficiaries, and themselves. Our insight may help to plan corporate volunteering programmes, especially for employers and nonprofit organisations collaborating with enterprises.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140690810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2024d000000019
Marion Valérie Repetti, Kelly Harrison, Pauline Mesnard, Farinaz Fassa
Volunteering is an essential resource for European countries and can be an opportunity for social participation. Yet it can also lead to exploitation. Social scientific narratives on this object are important because of the role that scholars can play in the development and implementation of public policies. Drawing on the observation that older people provide a significant portion of volunteer work, this article examines to what extent and how the social scientific literature about older volunteers questions the risk of exploitation that is inherent to any form of voluntary engagement. We find that these discourses predominantly describe volunteering as a means to improve older people’s lives and as a needed contribution. Risks of exploitation are rarely addressed. To help avoid ageism in social sciences and in volunteering policies and programmes, we suggest that scholars should give more awareness to the volunteering-exploitation nexus in their studies of older volunteers.
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