Volunteer recruitment: New perspectives

Thibault, André

doi:10.1080/07053436.2020.1849161

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“…The traditional volunteer resource manifests as regular, reliable, long-term volunteering or as habitual (recurring) episodic volunteering (F. Handy et al, 2006) within the same organization or event (online or offline). It is often portrayed in direct contrast to all contemporary, reflexive styles of volunteering (Hustinx & Lammertyn, 2003;Thibault, 2020).…”

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“…Handy et al, 2006) within the same organization or event (online or offline). It is often portrayed in direct contrast to all contemporary, reflexive styles of volunteering (Hustinx & Lammertyn, 2003; Thibault, 2020).…”

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“…The field is consumed with recruiting and retaining long-term volunteers, as reflected in the literature aimed at explaining and achieving efficacious recruitment and retention (e.g., Locke et al, 2003). The challenges associated with recruiting and retaining traditional volunteers will only increase, given societal developments (Hustinx & Lammertyn, 2003) that are altering volunteering in terms of motivation, style, and length of service (Thibault, 2020). Volunteer-using organizations should therefore identify which of their roles, functions, and tasks require traditional volunteer commitment and which ones could be performed (at least in part) by other types of resources.…”

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“…In recent decades, volunteering has undergone profound changes (Hustinx & Lammertyn, 2003;Thibault, 2020), all pointing to the "scarcity" of this resource. Examples include a decline in volunteering, both in numbers and hours (e.g., Brudney & Gazley, 2006); changes in the nature of and motivations for volunteering (Hustinx & Lammertyn, 2003;Thibault, 2020); increasing competition on the volunteer labor market (Bussell & Forbes, 2002, 2003; and a growing demand for volunteers (e.g., Bussell & Forbes, 2002;Randle et al, 2013). These developments suggest that society is unable to maintain, let alone increase, the level of volunteering.…”

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Rethinking Volunteering as a Natural Resource: A Conceptual Typology

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Meijs

Overbeeke

et al. 2022

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Volunteering can be understood as a human-made, renewable resource that can be grown and recycled, and whose continuation and volume of flow can be influenced by human beings positively as well as negatively. We extend the metaphor and break down the monolithic concept into three categories: traditional (wild salmon), third party (farmed fish), and spontaneous (marine zooplankton). Each volunteer resource (a) manifests in particular forms of volunteer service, (b) serves different purposes, (c) has different antecedents, (d) is harvested in different ways by different stakeholders meeting different conditions, and requires a specific form of management, based on its (e) benefits and challenges, (f) resource level, (g) propagation methods, and (h) sustainability needs. The three resources are fluid and interact dynamically. The distinction of three volunteer resources and their dynamics extends the conceptualization of volunteering as a natural resource and informs a new research agenda.

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Section: Wild Salmon: the Traditional Volunteer Resource That Volunte...mentioning

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Section: Three Volunteer-resource Categoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%