Author: International Association of Volunteer EffortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 16
Book Description
International Association for Volunteer Effort
Author: International Association of Volunteer EffortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 16
Book Description
International Association for Volunteer Effort
Author: International Association for Volunteer EffortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Volunteer workers in social service
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Volunteerism and World Development
Author: Allen JedlickaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313389527
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Allen Jedlicka proposes a revolutionary new approach to the development problems faced by much of the world. Arguing that government controlled bureaucracies are not effective in addressing the social and economic concerns of developing nations and regions--because they are more concerned with organizational survival than with helping people--Jedlicka develops an alternative solution that relies on volunteer efforts. He asserts that, free of the corrupt influences that affect bureaucracies, volunteers are often more successful in directly helping their target audience because the environmental factors that impede that process--greed, institutional survival, and indifference--are not present. Jedlicka shows how such a volunteer effort can be organized and mobilized, demonstrates the facilitating role that must be played by government in any such process, and calls upon the education system to foster a commitment to volunteerism in the nation's young people. The author begins by showing why bureaucracies are inherently incapable of helping to create true world development. He goes on to offer an extended discussion of why volunteers are more appropriate to accomplish that objective. As Jedlicka notes, people volunteer and work for nothing because they want to help other people--not because they want to enhance their careers or perpetuate the organization. Volunteers, therefore, are more committed, more interested in actually helping people, and, argues Jedlicka, more effective. In order to encourage the development of a volunteer ethic, Jedlicka proposes that the educational system be used to inculcate the values of volunteerism beginning with the very young. He shows how the federal government can be used to provide equipment and logistical support to volunteer efforts and demonstrates how to use participative management techniques to run voluntary organizations. The end result of educational training, government assistance, and committed management, Jedlicka asserts, will be a vastly more effective aid to development than has heretofore been available to the peoples of the Third World. Students of economics and international relations will find Jedlicka's work a provocative look at development problems and solutions.
The State and the Volunteer
Author: Ulla HabermannVolunteers in a Professional World
Author: International Association for Volunteer Effort. International ConferencePublisher:
ISBN: 9780904647297
Category : Volunteer workers in social service
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
International Association for Volunteer Effort First Indian National Conference
Author: International Association for Volunteer Effort. Indian National ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voluntarism
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Worldwide Volunteering
Author: Publisher: How To Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781857039108
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
This book demonstrates the enormous range of opportunites that exist around the world. There is something for everyone. - from the Foreword by Richard Branson
Universal Declaration on Volunteering
Author: Volunteer
Author: Lonely PlanetPublisher: Lonely Planet
ISBN: 1787010015
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Are you looking for a more meaningful travel experience? Do you want to give back to the communities you visit, make a genuine connection with locals, meet like-minded travellers and build your skills? International volunteering opens up all these opportunities and this book has all the advice you need to get there. Much more than just a resource directory, Volunteer is packed with invaluable information and full-colour inspiration to get you planning your perfect short- or long-term volunteer experience anywhere in the world. Whether it's monitoring sea turtles in Greece, helping set up handicraft businesses in Ghana or building community centres in Guatemala, you'll find amazing opportunities in this fully updated, comprehensive new edition. Written by passionate, well-travelled Lonely Planet writers advised by a team of experts in the field, this user-friendly guide promises to make your plans a reality. Chapters include: 1. International volunteering: an overview 2. Choosing your volunteer experience 3. The practicalities 4. Tying up loose ends 5. Organised volunteer programmes 6. Structured and self-funding volunteer programmes 7. Religious organisations 8. Do-it-yourself volunteer placements 9. Coming home 10. Starting your own charitable project About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' -- Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
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