- Value people over projects, and effectiveness over good intentions. Hold in tension a humanitarian ethic of service and a professional ethic of competence. Good international development is competent service guided by good principles and done through good practice.
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LinkedIn turns attention to Volunteerism
Survey Says, “Your Volunteer Experience Matters” LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network released the results this morning* of a survey of nearly two thousand professionals in the U.S. and found that 89% have volunteering experience, but only 45% include this … Continue reading
Generation X and Volunteerism – nuancing the “hero” status
A couple of days ago I published a graph showing that Gen Xers have increased their rates of volunteerism over the past 5-6 years, while the rates of the Baby Boomers and Millennials decreased. (See full post here.) Being that … Continue reading
Posted in Volunteering
Tagged community-volunteer, Gen X, Generation-X, volunteer-lifecycle, volunteering, Volunteering-in-America, volunteerism
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Volunteerism and Employment: the surprising relationship
Volunteerism: it’s not a function of spare time! We know that people volunteer when they have both the heart for it and the resources for it, but which resource is more important, time or money? I would have thought that time … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Volunteering
Tagged Bureau-of-Labor-Statistics, employment, Generation-X, participation-rates, unemployment, volunteerism
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A Moderate Elitist
There are some very active ongoing conversations around aid elitism at Tales From the Hood here and here, and at viewfromthecave here and here. It’s had some spillover with the conversation about poverty tourism here and here. The posts themselves have … Continue reading
Posted in service ethics, Volunteering
Tagged 1millionshirts, Aid, aid-bloggers, boycott, child-labor, do-no-harm, elitism, good-intentions, Hughes
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