How do International Volunteering Characteristics Influence Outcomes? Perspectives from Partner Organizations

This study examines how different types of international volunteering influence common program outcomes such as building organizational capacity, developing international relationships, and performing manual labor. Survey responses were collected from 288 development-oriented volunteer partner organ...

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Published inVoluntas (Manchester, England) Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 104 - 118
Main Authors Lough, Benjamin J., Tiessen, Rebecca
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer Science+Business Media, LLC (Springer) 01.02.2018
Springer US
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Capacity building approach
Manual workers
Organization development
Original Paper
Political Science
Social Policy
Social Sciences
Typology
Variables
Volunteers
Duration
Volunteering
Quantitative
Organizations
International
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Summary:This study examines how different types of international volunteering influence common program outcomes such as building organizational capacity, developing international relationships, and performing manual labor. Survey responses were collected from 288 development-oriented volunteer partner organizations operating in 68 countries. Data on the duration of volunteer service, the volunteers' skill levels, and other variables were used to develop a rough typology of international volunteering. Binary logistic regression models then assessed differences in outcomes across five volunteering types. Findings suggest that future research needs to be more precise about how the nuances and complexity of diverse forms of international volunteering influence outcomes.
ISSN:0957-8765
1573-7888
DOI:10.1007/s11266-017-9902-9