This paper examines trends in the level of voluntary activity in Britain and draws conclusions whether it is possible to expand the impact of the third sector through an extension of volunteering.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-14-developmental-trends-british-third-sector/n this paper Gijko Bezovan compares role and impact of the third sector in transformative process in Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Croatia.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-13-role-impact-third-sector-transformative-process/The purpose of this paper is to provide an estimate of the size of the Third Sector in European Union member countries and Norway.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-12-size-scope-third-sector-europe/TSOs operating at EU-policy level do not seem to be in a position to significantly influence the agenda or even address major TSO-related topics, as this latest working paper reveals.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-11-riders-storm/Outlining the challenges of quantitative measurement, TSI coordinator Bernard Enjolras argues in this paper that multidimenional criteria are needed to capture the socio-economic impact of third sector activity, as outputs and outcomes of third sector organizations are more than those of for private for-profit enterprises activities. “The reason is that third sector organizations mainly generate […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-10-assessing-macro-socio-economic-impact-third-sector-europe/This paper examines the status of social innovation research, the notion and scope of impact produced by innovation, as well as the limitations of impact measurement.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-9-social-innovation-impact-review-of-research/As the risks associated with growing labour market deregulation and flexibilisation are increasingly shifted towards individuals, an increasing number of people are likely to experience unemployment, which can result in declining mental health and well-being. This paper asks whether voluntary work can reduce the negative effects of unemployment on well-being. Drawing on Latent Deprivation Theory, […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-7-unemployment-volunteering-subjective-well-being-and-mental-health/A new Working Paper by the TSI team at Business University of Vienna in Austria explores how existing SROI (Social Return on Investment) analyses can be applied to the assessment of impact indicators proposed by the TSI Impact group. This five dimensions are (1) well-being and quality of life, (2) innovation, (3) civic engagement, empowerment, […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-6-meta-analysis-of-sroi-studies-indicators-and-proxies/It is often assumed that the density of third sector organizations provides opportunities that are beneficial for engagement in volunteering, social cohesion, and social capital. By sophisticated multi-level modelling and after controlling for relevant individual and area characteristics in data from the UK, this paper concludes that the “foot-print” of third sector organizations does not […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-7-community-level-impacts-of-the-third-sector/This working paper clarifies the meanings of the concepts of civil society, public sphere and third sector in the light of TSI’s work on a conceptualization of the third sector in Europe. First, the paper surveys the genealogy and different meanings of the concept of civil society and introduces the idea of a differentiated “civil […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-5-measuring-the-impact-of-the-third-sector-from-concept-to-metrics/
