The general objective was building capacity of organisations to determine ways of motivating young volunteers to continue contributing to the common good. The concrete objectives of this project were: - Analysis of organisations’ image and volunteers’ motivation for the development of the Guide of Good Practices. The Guide’s goal is to help organisations with attracting and retaining volunteers. - Sharing and refining the Guide during a seminar for volunteer-oriented organisations prior to the national and international testing of best practices. - Sharing of Guide and other findings with volunteer-reliant organisations. The main outcomes of the project will be: - Elaboration of the Guide: guide of good practices that will be completed after activities and will equip organisations for their quest of recruiting more volunteers and promote the concept of volunteering in general. - Capacity Building: throughout the research phase as well as its results, the participating organisations will build their capacity in the field of volunteerism promotion and volunteer recruitment.
One of the most important types of community involvement is volunteering, which can provide both physical and mental health benefits for volunteers as well as numerous positive outcomes for the community. It impacts everyone involved and is a rewarding concept with many benefits. Moreover, volunteerism is crucial for certain organisations because they may depend heavily on volunteer work in order to function. Furthermore, some organisations do not have the money to pay the salaries of every employee since they, for example, receive a portion of their funding from the local or federal governments. In this way, these organisations depend on volunteer work in order to function. The organisation is then capable of remaining operational, while the volunteers are able to help those in need. We felt the need to support volunteering in the local communities of all international partners and make research to discovert good practices used in the field of volunteering of young people across the countries and to share them to motivate more young people to join volunteering and to make them motivated to stay active in volunteering. Our needs were to find out methods and strategies used in the field of volunteering of young people and share it.