Making volunteer work visible: supplementary measures of work in labor force statistics

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Nonprofit Organizational Identification, Moral License, and Whiteness: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Nonprofit Work on the White Morality Myth

“…To test if the treatment was likely to generate organizational identification, I analyzed the relationship between work status and language indicating self-inclusion in the nonprofit described by the participant. Research indicates that the majority of contractors and Board members in nonprofit organizations also hold jobs outside of the nonprofits they support (Turner et al, 2020). Organizational identification literature indicates that workers are most likely to identify with their primary workplace (Kreiner & Ashforth, 2004).…”

First Person: Our students want to volunteer. We can show them the way.

“…The generation of students in school right now want to be involved and help causes that are important to them. In fact, they've demonstrated a desire to volunteer in greater numbers than groups older than them (Turner, Klein, & Sorrentino, 2020). During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, 66% of Gen Z donated to help others impacted by the shutdowns (Leonhardt, 2020).…”

The pregnancy compensation hypothesis, not the staying alive theory, accounts for disparate autoimmune functioning of women around the world

“…Volunteer activities typically attract more women than men and can present threats to volunteers, although these are rarely lifethreatening. Notably, women are the majority of volunteers both in the United States (Turner, Klein, & Sorrentino, 2020) and worldwide (United Nations, 2018). The U.S. Peace Corps provides one example: Women constitute 65% of its volunteers (Peace Corps, 2021).…”