Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2023d000000008
Stuart Haw, Paul Potrac, Karl Wharton, Lindsay Findlay-King
Community Asset Transfer (CAT), where voluntary community groups form to manage local facilities in replacement for local authorities (LAs) has increased. This paper discusses how successful management of the facilities is understood. Factors for this success involve community capital and these capitals underpin understandings of successful CATs. The study reveals perspectives of successful CAT by examining qualitative case studies of two cases of CAT of leisure facilities. Both involve social enterprises forming to conduct the CAT. Interviews with local authority staff, board members, staff, and volunteers within the community organisations reveal the perspectives on successful CAT and what successful asset management involves. Two findings are explored; success concerning outcomes of CATs benefitting residents; and this not being understood across cases. The paper is useful for LAs responsible for CATs and for community organisations considering pursuing a CAT.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2023d000000009
Oksana Mikheieva, Irina Kuznetsova
The paper reveals the role of volunteering in support of internally displaced people in a context with no or few regulations regarding volunteering and when the state and international organisations cannot fulfil the demands for assistance. It argues that ‘pure’ characteristics of volunteering are not applicable in such a context. The paper contributes to the literature by combining the understanding of volunteering as a hybrid phenomenon and a process model of volunteering. Drawing on empirical studies conducted by the authors, the paper explores volunteering in Ukraine through the lens of its individual and situational nature. Volunteering manifested itself in spontaneous actions at the beginning of the war and displacement in 2014 as a reaction to urgent needs for evacuation and humanitarian help, and later in the work of NGOs established to provide further support to internally displaced people (IDPs). The developed volunteering practices have a high capacity to support the post-war reconstruction in Ukraine.
{"title":"War-time volunteering and population displacement: from spontaneous help to organised volunteering in post-2014 Ukraine","authors":"Oksana Mikheieva, Irina Kuznetsova","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2023d000000009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2023d000000009","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reveals the role of volunteering in support of internally displaced people in a context with no or few regulations regarding volunteering and when the state and international organisations cannot fulfil the demands for assistance. It argues that ‘pure’ characteristics of volunteering are not applicable in such a context. The paper contributes to the literature by combining the understanding of volunteering as a hybrid phenomenon and a process model of volunteering. Drawing on empirical studies conducted by the authors, the paper explores volunteering in Ukraine through the lens of its individual and situational nature. Volunteering manifested itself in spontaneous actions at the beginning of the war and displacement in 2014 as a reaction to urgent needs for evacuation and humanitarian help, and later in the work of NGOs established to provide further support to internally displaced people (IDPs). The developed volunteering practices have a high capacity to support the post-war reconstruction in Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":"1 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139438433","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 : 2023-12-26DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2023d000000006
Philippa Mullins
Drawing on in-depth interviews, this article investigates how Russian civil society actors organising around disability understand and use human rights discourses. It asks whether and how these actors mobilise distinctions between social and political human rights. It argues that civil society actors perceive the Russian State as legitimising social action and delegitimising political action. However, these actors also disidentify with this binary division by taking a third position; they identify their apparently social work as forming another kind of politics, different from that dominantly perceived as political. The article thus identifies a non-apparent or infra-political strategy by which political organising evades perception as political through the dominant depoliticisation of social rights. Actors instrumentalise this dominant perception to continue to engage in work which they identify as political, thus repoliticising the social sphere.
{"title":"‘I don’t feel like a classic rights defender’: rights subjectivities and disidentification in Russian disability organising","authors":"Philippa Mullins","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2023d000000006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2023d000000006","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on in-depth interviews, this article investigates how Russian civil society actors organising around disability understand and use human rights discourses. It asks whether and how these actors mobilise distinctions between social and political human rights. It argues that civil society actors perceive the Russian State as legitimising social action and delegitimising political action. However, these actors also disidentify with this binary division by taking a third position; they identify their apparently social work as forming another kind of politics, different from that dominantly perceived as political. The article thus identifies a non-apparent or infra-political strategy by which political organising evades perception as political through the dominant depoliticisation of social rights. Actors instrumentalise this dominant perception to continue to engage in work which they identify as political, thus repoliticising the social sphere.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":"97 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139154985","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 : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2023d000000007
Geoff Nichols, Fiona Reid, Lindsay Findlay-King
This paper considers the role and limitations of mutual aid associations in meeting society’s needs. It does this by examining responses of community sports clubs (CSCs) in the UK to COVID-19 restrictions. We firstly make the case that CSCs typify mutual aid associations. Using two qualitative research studies we show how the clubs’ responses focused on meeting the needs of their own members, expressing bonding rather than bridging social capital. Clubs’ resilience was facilitated by the commitment of key volunteers, understood as serious leisure, and the complete overlap of governance and delivery in club management. These insights allow us to discuss the potential and limitations of this particular type of mutual aid association in meeting society’s needs, and qualify general assertions that the voluntary sector would respond to the COVID-19 crisis by developing social capital. It reinforces the need for a typology of the voluntary sector to inform understanding and research.
{"title":"The role of mutual aid in meeting society’s needs: the example of community sports clubs’ responses to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions","authors":"Geoff Nichols, Fiona Reid, Lindsay Findlay-King","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2023d000000007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2023d000000007","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the role and limitations of mutual aid associations in meeting society’s needs. It does this by examining responses of community sports clubs (CSCs) in the UK to COVID-19 restrictions. We firstly make the case that CSCs typify mutual aid associations. Using two qualitative research studies we show how the clubs’ responses focused on meeting the needs of their own members, expressing bonding rather than bridging social capital. Clubs’ resilience was facilitated by the commitment of key volunteers, understood as serious leisure, and the complete overlap of governance and delivery in club management. These insights allow us to discuss the potential and limitations of this particular type of mutual aid association in meeting society’s needs, and qualify general assertions that the voluntary sector would respond to the COVID-19 crisis by developing social capital. It reinforces the need for a typology of the voluntary sector to inform understanding and research.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":" 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138963684","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 : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16513318386986
Catherine Forde, Sharon Buckley
During the COVID-19 pandemic, voluntary and non-profit organisations have faced the challenge of maintaining their services while protecting staff and service users during a time of unprecedented threat to human health. This practice paper explores the experiences of a voluntary youth organisation that introduced a system of virtual/online working between management, staff and service users during the pandemic. The paper discusses staff perspectives on the benefits and costs of online working for voluntary organisations and offers recommendations about how they may use this mode of working in a post-COVID world.
{"title":"Virtual working in a voluntary youth organisation during the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges, opportunities and prospects","authors":"Catherine Forde, Sharon Buckley","doi":"10.1332/204080521x16513318386986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16513318386986","url":null,"abstract":"During the COVID-19 pandemic, voluntary and non-profit organisations have faced the challenge of maintaining their services while protecting staff and service users during a time of unprecedented threat to human health. This practice paper explores the experiences of a voluntary youth organisation that introduced a system of virtual/online working between management, staff and service users during the pandemic. The paper discusses staff perspectives on the benefits and costs of online working for voluntary organisations and offers recommendations about how they may use this mode of working in a post-COVID world.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":"366 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136103072","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 : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2023d000000005
A. Stefanie Ruiz, Rebecca Kanter
This study explores how formal versus informal volunteering is related to immigrants’ identities in the US. We analyse 24 semi-structured interviews to investigate the identity-related influences of immigrant volunteering within and outside nonprofits’ auspices. We base our data analysis on the theoretical framework of individual mobility and a conceptual framework consisting of social identity theory and role identity theory. While past research has addressed how voluntary work affects immigrants’ social identity, we offer a comparative outlook by investigating how the associations differ for formal versus informal volunteering. Our findings show that immigrants who volunteer formally apply their immigrant identity to emphasise the integrative qualities of their volunteer role in US society, and that immigrants who volunteer informally apply their volunteer role towards the preservation of their immigrant identity.
{"title":"How volunteering shapes immigrants’ social identity: insights from foreign-born formal and informal volunteers","authors":"A. Stefanie Ruiz, Rebecca Kanter","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2023d000000005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2023d000000005","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores how formal versus informal volunteering is related to immigrants’ identities in the US. We analyse 24 semi-structured interviews to investigate the identity-related influences of immigrant volunteering within and outside nonprofits’ auspices. We base our data analysis on the theoretical framework of individual mobility and a conceptual framework consisting of social identity theory and role identity theory. While past research has addressed how voluntary work affects immigrants’ social identity, we offer a comparative outlook by investigating how the associations differ for formal versus informal volunteering. Our findings show that immigrants who volunteer formally apply their immigrant identity to emphasise the integrative qualities of their volunteer role in US society, and that immigrants who volunteer informally apply their volunteer role towards the preservation of their immigrant identity.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":"15 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135365820","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 : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2023d000000003
Zeeshan Noor, Kayla Schwoerer, Shariq Siddiqui
Drawing on prosocial motivation and social identity theory, this study uses an original survey (n=653) of Muslims in the United States to explore gender differences in charitable giving amongst Muslims during COVID-19. We use a series of regression models to determine the effect of gender on giving intentions to Muslims (in-group) and non-Muslims (out-group) and find evidence of gender differences. Specifically, Muslim women were more likely than Muslim men to report intentions to give to non-Muslim individuals and causes. To probe this further, we tested the mediating effect of prosocial motivation on gender and willingness to give Zakat to non-Muslim causes. The findings indicate that gender differences in Muslims’ giving intentions are driven by higher levels of prosocial motivation among Muslim women. This study contributes to the limited literature on Muslim Americans’ charitable giving by examining how gender influences Muslims’ giving intentions, more specifically in times of crisis.
{"title":"Gender and Muslim philanthropy: the role of prosociality in women’s giving intention during COVID-19","authors":"Zeeshan Noor, Kayla Schwoerer, Shariq Siddiqui","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2023d000000003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2023d000000003","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on prosocial motivation and social identity theory, this study uses an original survey (n=653) of Muslims in the United States to explore gender differences in charitable giving amongst Muslims during COVID-19. We use a series of regression models to determine the effect of gender on giving intentions to Muslims (in-group) and non-Muslims (out-group) and find evidence of gender differences. Specifically, Muslim women were more likely than Muslim men to report intentions to give to non-Muslim individuals and causes. To probe this further, we tested the mediating effect of prosocial motivation on gender and willingness to give Zakat to non-Muslim causes. The findings indicate that gender differences in Muslims’ giving intentions are driven by higher levels of prosocial motivation among Muslim women. This study contributes to the limited literature on Muslim Americans’ charitable giving by examining how gender influences Muslims’ giving intentions, more specifically in times of crisis.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135044469","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 : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2023d000000002
Kelli Kennedy, Carolyn Snell
Over the past decade there has been a growth of UK food charity and in turn the growth of supermarkets’ partnerships with food charities; this policy and practice paper explores these relationships, based on our findings from the 2021 project, ‘Supermarket corporate social responsibility schemes: working towards ethical schemes promoting food security’. We review the project’s findings, present practical recommendations, and identify lessons that can be applied to the current cost of living crisis.
{"title":"Relationships between supermarkets and food charities in reducing food insecurity: lessons learned","authors":"Kelli Kennedy, Carolyn Snell","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2023d000000002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2023d000000002","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade there has been a growth of UK food charity and in turn the growth of supermarkets’ partnerships with food charities; this policy and practice paper explores these relationships, based on our findings from the 2021 project, ‘Supermarket corporate social responsibility schemes: working towards ethical schemes promoting food security’. We review the project’s findings, present practical recommendations, and identify lessons that can be applied to the current cost of living crisis.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135770988","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 : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1332/20408056y2023d000000001
John Picton
{"title":"Non-governmental Organisations and the Law: Self-regulation and Accountability by Domenico Carolei (2023)","authors":"John Picton","doi":"10.1332/20408056y2023d000000001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056y2023d000000001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135983116","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}
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