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/A quantitative study by France Bénévolat on the development of volunteering in non-profit associations in France between 2010 and 2016 shows a steady growth in the number of volunteers, especially among people below the age of 35. However, older people are less engaged than in the past.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/volunteering-growth-in-france-finds-tsi-stakeholder-research/Despite their demographic and economic importance, rural regions lag behind in a number of socio-economic indicators. Inhabitants are often at higher risk of poverty, face difficulties in accessing infrastructure and public services, and display lower levels of employment, income, educational attainment. Rural isolation refers not only to social, labour and educational exclusion, but also to […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/tsi-at-rural-isolation-of-citizens-in-europe-conference/TSI European stakeholder organisation European Volunteer Centre (CEV) published a toolkit to help volunteer-involving organisations develop employee volunteering. It guides the user through a process that emphasises the importance of ensuring a common understanding in the organisation about the purpose and added value of employee volunteering projects and explains the different possible models. The Workbook […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/cev-workbook-to-implement-employee-volunteering/NCVO champions the voluntary sector and volunteering because they are essential for a better society. Our vision – A society where we can all make a difference to the causes that we believe in. Our mission – To help voluntary organisations and volunteers make the biggest difference they can.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/partners/national-council-for-voluntary-organisations-ncvo/With a series of Working Papers drawing from existing data TSI is one step closer to test the methodological validity of the project’s set of third sector impact indicators.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/progress-on-empirical-analysis-of-the-impact-of-the-third-sector-in-europe/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/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/Most of the evidence of the positive contribution of volunteering for the volunteers is based on established correlations between volunteering and measures of individual health, well-being or civic engagement. Confounding unobserved variables may lead to biased regression estimates. This paper explores the impact of volunteering on the self-reported health, the self-reported well-being, and the level […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-working-paper-no-3-the-impact-of-volunteering-on-volunteers-in-23-european-countries/Report on major meeting on the role of volunteering in sustainable development that highlights the need for global multidisciplinary knowledge to better understand and inform the practice and contributions of volunteering to sustainable development, based on the values of participation, collaboration, and partnership.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/global-research-agenda-on-volunteerism-reflects-relevance-of-tsi/
