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    • Volunteering: A family affair?
    • Executive summary
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. What? Defining and describing family volunteering
    • 3. Why? Why and how family volunteering comes about
    • 4. How? How family and organisational contexts shape family volunteering experiences
    • 5. To what effect? The outcomes of family volunteering for families and organisations
    • 6. So what? Conclusions and considerations
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Volunteering: A family affair?

  • Angela Ellis Paine
  • Véronique Jochum
  • Daiga Kamerāde
  • Joanna Stuart

Published: 28 September 2020

  • Foreword
    • Acknowledgements
  • Executive summary
    • Introduction
    • Defining and describing family volunteering
    • Why and how family volunteering comes about
    • Family and organisational context makes a difference to family volunteering
    • Family volunteering makes a difference to families and organisations
    • Conclusions and considerations
  • 1. Introduction
    • Background
    • Research aims and objectives
    • Research approach
    • Table 1: Case study organisations
    • Reading this report
  • 2. What? Defining and describing family volunteering
    • What volunteering looks like within families
    • Organisational approaches to family volunteering
  • 3. Why? Why and how family volunteering comes about
    • Beyond the individual: Why and how families get involved in volunteering
    • Mission and reach: Why organisations get involved in family volunteering
  • 4. How? How family and organisational contexts shape family volunteering experiences
    • How family life affects the volunteering experience
    • How organisation affects families’ volunteering experiences
  • 5. To what effect? The outcomes of family volunteering for families and organisations
    • Family outcomes
    • The organisational outcomes of family volunteering
  • 6. So what? Conclusions and considerations
    • Conclusions
    • Considerations
  • Download this report

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Volunteering: A family affair? Part 2

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Volunteering: A family affair? Part 3

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