This study explores the extent to which young volunteers perform voluntary service for selfless reasons by investigating the role of altruism, empathy, and beliefs in their commitment to voluntary projects that last for ...

The most common requirement for informal caregivers is to experience a respite or temporary break from their caregiving routine. Some initiatives have been undertaken to provide respite care through volunteer providers. ...

A descriptive/comparative research is presented with the aim of knowing engagement levels in university volunteers and associative organizations volunteers’ groups. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale was administered; it ...

Volunteer Computing is a low cost and easy deployable solution for scientific projects that require large amounts of computational power. Volunteer computing public access capabilities comes with several security threats ...

Community-based surveys and monitoring are notable for the importance of results related to natural resource management and conservation, as well as representing desired and effective interactions between environmental ...

Volunteer tourism or voluntourism is a topic that has been increasingly researched, as it is becoming a common practice. There are several ways to practice this tourism and, in general, specialized agencies promote it, ...

Examine and understand how an informal volunteer’s goals and actions develop from the moment they first learn about a disaster. We examine informal volunteerism (the activities of people who work outside of formal emergency ...