Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering

1 Introduction.- 2. Varieties of and changes in volunteering. Challenges for a global research agenda.- 3. Different contexts, different data. A review of multinational sources on volunteering and some steps beyond.- 4. New global standards for measuring volunteering. The Revised UN Handbook: The ILO Manual and the TSE satellite account.- 5. The global standards on volunteering and the varieties of Italy. A local test with an international relevance.- 6. A glocal and multiactorial methodological strategy. The implementation process of the global statistical standards in a complex country.- 7. Reading the local through the (adapted) global standards. Advancements in accounting for the scope and the varieties of the Italian volunteering.- 8. The social and ecological antecedents of volunteering. A step forward.- 9. Volunteering and trust. New insights on a classic topic.- 10. School of democracy. Volunteering and political participation.- 11. Doing good, to others and to oneself. Volunteering and individual wellbeing.- 12. Emergent professions. Volunteering and labour market.- 13. Conclusions.

Riccardo Guidi,

BA/MA in Political Science and PhD in Sociology, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science of University of Pisa where currently teaches Organization of Social Services and Sociology of Third Sector. He gave lectures at the National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences (Latvia), chaired Sessions, presented and discussed Papers at ISTR, ISA, ESPANET, ECPR, ESWRA and IPA Conferences. Formerly, he was Scientific Director and Senior Researcher of Volunteering and Participation Foundation (Italy) (2009-2014). His research interests are about volunteering, sustainable community movement organizations and social work. About these topics he has published monographies and edited books, journal articles, and book chapters.

Ksenija Fonovic,

BA/MRes, works with CSV Lazio - regional Volunteer Support Centre based in Rome, Italy. She spearheaded efforts to promote the implementation of the ILO Manual for the Measurement of Volunteer Work through EVMP - European Volunteer Measurement Project in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. She was responsible for stakeholders' engagement in the three-year EU funded research project "Third Sector Impact" coordinated by Bernard Enjolras. She coordinated a collaborative practice led research "Volunteering across Europe. Organisations, promotion, participation" and edited the collection of country reports in English and in Italian. She contributed to various European civil society projects resulting in policy recommendations. Since 2018, PhD candidate at the University of Münster with Prof. Annette Zimmer.

Tania Cappadozzi,