volunteering
Let an agent explain volunteering and its forms, relay measurement, legal frameworks and research with attribution, describe programmes such as service years, and distinguish volunteering from unpaid internships, mandated community service and paid work.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain volunteering and its forms, relay measurement, legal frameworks and research with attribution, describe programmes such as service years, and distinguish volunteering from unpaid internships, mandated community service and paid work.
The giving of time and effort without pay for the benefit of others, a community or a cause, through organisations or informally, in forms such as community service, voluntary service programmes, service years, student study-service and village activities, and in settings from charities and emergency services to international placements; volunteering is measured by statistical offices, supported by laws and policies, and studied for its social, economic and personal benefits.
What it is for: Contributing to others and communities without pay.
It can be explain forms and settings; relay measurement and law; relay research on benefits; distinguish from related activities.
Distinguishing features
Unpaid and voluntary
Benefit to others
Formal and informal
Policy support
What it looks like
Not a visible object; people giving time in many settings.
Physical character
formal volunteers worldwide: about 860 million people - UNV estimates, monthly
How it is recognised
Unpaid work for the benefit of others
Formal, informal, service programmes, international volunteering
Unpaid internships serve the intern; court-ordered community service is a sanction; paid work is employment
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is measured by - in labour statistics
In practice
Families and kinds
formal volunteering through organisations
informal helping
community service and voluntary service programmes
service years and national civic service
student service-learning such as study-service
international volunteering
corporate and skills-based volunteering
emergency and crisis volunteering
Standards and regulation
ILO Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work
National volunteering laws and insurance rules
Safeguarding and background check rules
International Volunteer Day, 5 December
Failure modes and hazards
Exploitation of volunteers as unpaid labour
Voluntourism harms, as reported
Confusing mandated service with volunteering
Unsourced participation figures
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What volunteering is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and forms.
Definition
Definition.
- What is volunteering, and what forms does it take? definition
- Is the activity volunteering, an internship, mandated service or paid work? boundary
Settings
Settings.
Settings
Settings.
- In what settings do people volunteer, from local charities to emergency services and international programmes? definition
- Which entry fits the specific programme? action
Evidence Measurement and research.
Attribution.
Measurement
Measurement.
Measurement
Measurement.
- How is volunteering measured, and what do statistics show, with sources? measurement
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Benefits
Benefits and effects.
Benefits
Benefits.
- What does research say about the social, economic and health effects of volunteering, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Practice Practice and policy.
Regulation.
Management
Volunteer management.
Management
Management.
- How do organisations recruit, train, safeguard and recognise volunteers? provenance
- Which entry fits volunteer management? action
Policy
Law and policy.
Policy
Policy.
- What laws, insurance and policies support volunteering and service years, and what debates exist, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context Ethics and history.
Context.
Ethics
Ethics.
Ethics
Ethics.
- What ethical issues arise in voluntourism and unpaid labour, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits voluntourism? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How has volunteering developed across cultures and periods? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of philanthropy? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should service year and international volunteering be separate entries?
- How should statistical sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific programmes and vague terms; should they be split off?