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Research to Practice

Research to Practice seeks to identify, review and interpret academic and other research important to the volunteer engagement field. Because the various reports and studies are discussed in terms of their major relevance to practitioners, each of the articles is also listed in the Engage Library by subject covered.

Connecting Volunteers with the Community: A Research Project for Volunteer Victoria
Victoria is a fascinating city nestled in the westernmost portion of British Columbia. It is a city which is known for being “more English than the English” and a great place to have afternoon tea in the old style. You wouldn’t think they’d be producing material on the cutting…
Steve McCurley
Research to Practice
July 2003
World Leisure's Volunteerism Commission
World Leisure, an international organization devoted to the scientific study and promotion of leisure, has as part of its structure several commissions devoted to matters consistent with this mission. One of these – the Volunteerism Commission – was founded to organize and…
Robert A. Stebbins
Research to Practice
April 2003
Exploring Hispanic American Involvement in Community Leadership through Volunteerism
One of the least-researched areas of volunteer involvement in the United States is that of ethnic volunteering. Hispanic volunteering, in particular, has received much less attention than it deserves considering the vast increase in size and importance of the Hispanic population…
Steve McCurley
Research to Practice
July 2002
Changing the Focus on Volunteering: An Investigation of Volunteers' Multiple Contributions for a Charitable Organization
Steven Farmer and Donald Fedor have taken a look at factors which make volunteers decide to continue and increase their contribution of volunteer time and effort to a particular organization. This issue is a serious one to effective involvement of volunteers, since the…
Steve McCurley
Research to Practice
January 2002
Race and Formal Volunteering: The Differential Effects of Class and Religion
Marc Musick and John Wilson are doing some of the most interesting and useful studies of volunteer behavior today, and this current article, co-written with William Bynum, is no exception. In what is both a review of available literature and new research of their own, the…
Steve McCurley
Research to Practice
July 2001
'Boomnet': Capturing the Baby Boomer Volunteers
Australia has been a hotbed of volunteering activity for the past few years and this report is an indication of the increasing seriousness with which the Australian government is attempting to involve itself in promoting volunteering. The report was produced as part of the 2001…
Steve McCurley
Research to Practice
April 2002
Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America
Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America Marc Freedman Public Affairs, New York, 1999 ISBN 1-891620-17-1 Marc Freedman's premise in Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America is that the baby boom…
Nancy Macduff
Research to Practice
April 2001
Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey
The Saguaro Seminar is a program of Harvard University that builds on the work of Robert Putnam (author of Bowling Alone: Collapse and Revival of the American Community). One of its initial activities was to conduct this national survey of almost 30,000 people, released in…
Steve McCurley
Research to Practice
April 2001

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