Purpose, Goals and Objectives
Mandate
Research on volunteering as a major form of leisure activity
The dissemination of the knowledge generated by such research, and
The development of an expanding role of volunteerism as leisure and in leisure programs and services.
An important assumption in this mandate, which springs from the leisure perspective, is that volunteering, among things, is primarily a creative, society-building activity. However, it loses this quality when it becomes merely a money-saving strategy imposed upon an altruistic citizenry by either the public or the private sector.
Objectives
To encourage and facilitate research world-wide, on all aspects of volunteering related to leisure.
To disseminate to the applied sector throughout the world relevant research findings in this area.
To apprise leisure policy makers of the significance of volunteerism as both means and ends. |
