Learning Why and How: A Reader in Managing Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations

Author(s): Rita S. Mano

DOI: 10.2174/978160805451011201010055

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

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Traditional views of volunteering focus on the moral obligation to care for the weak and the needy. The chapter addresses the characteristics of volunteers, their diverse needs and motivations and takes an in depth view of the proper strategies that encourage volunteers’ motivation and retaining and how by doing so nonprofits capitalize on volunteers’ contribution to the actualization of organizational goals and visions.

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Volunteer characteristics, needs, motivations, value, burnout, turnover, retaining strategies.

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