Moving ahead or falling behind? Volunteer promotion and data collection

Linking collegiate service‐learning to future volunteerism: Implications for nonprofit organizations

“…More longitudinal research is needed to learn about the longer-term impacts of S-L on future volunteerism. Two vintage longitudinal works in that vein are those of Astin and others (1999) and Brudney and Gazley (2006). The former studied the long-term effects of volunteering while in college on subsequent postgraduate volunteerism, and the latter sifted through several decades of published data on volunteerism to identify trends and profile various research issues.…”

“…This research design stems from requests in the S-L literature for more longitudinal studies (Billig, 2003;Brudney and Gazley, 2006;Colby, Ehrlich, Beaumont, and Stephens, 2003;Furco, 2003;Howard, 2003;Lowery and others, 2006). Embedded within this alumni assessment, we identify particular characteristics of the collegiate S-L experience that influenced the extent to which the alumni volunteered after their S-L project was completed.…”

Institutionally Individualized Volunteering: Towards a Late Modern Re-Construction

“…Research by the Independent Sector in the US has indeed shown a significant rise in short-term volunteer participation. Between 1987 and, the rate of volunteering increased by nearly 23%, from 45.3% to 55.5%, but the average weekly hours per volunteer dropped from 4.7 to 3.5 hours -a 25% drop (Brudney & Gazley, 2006). The 1998 Independent Sector survey furthermore revealed that 41.9% of respondents indicated that they had volunteered sporadically and considered it a one-time activity whereas 39% volunteered on a regular basis.…”

A new spirit across sectors: Constructing a common justification for corporate volunteering

“…Notes 1. In the UK and the US, for example, the number of companies that offer corporate volunteering schemes significantly grew between the mid-1990s to the mid2000s (Brudney & Gazley, 2006;Low, Butt, Paine, & Smith, 2007). In the US, the number of volunteering hours given by employee volunteers has nearly doubled between 1997 and 2002, and employers serve as one of the main sources of volunteers' supply and volunteering promotion (Brudney & Gazley, 2006).…”