Unit 2: Volunteerism Findings based on 2004 Census
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- Unit 2: Volunteerism Findings based on 2004 Census
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- Quiz 1.What % of Canadians do you think volunteer? 2.Where do
you think people volunteer the most (type i.e. Schools)? 3.What do
you think most people do as volunteers? 4.Stereotype your typical
volunteer: age, sex, education level, employment status, income,
religious status. 5.How do you think volunteers in Nova Scotia rank
in comparison to the rest of the country? 6.A) What are the top 3
reasons people cited for why they volunteer? B) What are youths
reasons? 7.How do you think most people start volunteering? 8.What
% of the Canadian population do you think volunteers informally
(not through an organization, i.e. helping others)?
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- Canadian Volunteers 11.8 million Canadians (45% of the
population aged 15 and older) volunteered their time to charities
and other nonprofit organizations.
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- How much?? Volunteers contributed almost 2 billion volunteer
hours to organizations This is the equivalent of 1 million full
time jobs!
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- Only a few Although the total amount of volunteering by
Canadians is impressive, the majority of volunteer hours are
contributed by a small percentage of the Canadian population.
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- Where? What? Canadians volunteered most often with: sports and
recreation (18%), social services (17%), education and research
(11%), religious organizations (16%). The most common activities
volunteers performed in 2004 were organizing, supervising or
coordinating activities or events and fundraising
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- Who volunteers? Volunteer rates were highest among -youth,
-females, -those with university degrees, -those who were employed,
-those with household incomes over $100,000, -those who attended
religious services weekly.
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- Volunteer trends The percentage of Canadians who volunteer
generally decreases with age. The average number of hours
volunteered generally rises with age. While the likelihood of
volunteering increases steadily as household income rises, the
average number of hours volunteered tends to decline as household
income rises. Volunteering also increases, for the most part, with
level of education. Employed individuals were more likely to
volunteer than those who were unemployed. The likelihood of
volunteering increases with the presence of children, particularly
school aged children in the household. Those who attended religious
services weekly were far more likely to volunteer their time than
those who did not.
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- Nova Scotia vs. Canada We fell in about 6 th place (out of 13)
as to how many of us volunteer. However, we placed 3 rd for
contributing the most volunteer hours.
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- Why volunteer? The top three reasons for volunteering were: -to
make a contribution to the community, -to use ones skills and
experiences, -and being affected by the cause supported by the
organization.
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- Where to start Over half (55%) of volunteers reported that they
did not approach the organization on their own initiative. Most
(89%) reported that they were asked by someone to volunteer.
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- Why volunteer? Almost all volunteers (92%) agreed that making a
contribution to their community was an important reason for their
volunteering. The other most frequently reported important reasons
for volunteering were the opportunity to use ones skills and
experience (77%), being personally affected by the cause supported
by the organization (60%), exploring ones strengths (49%), to
network with or meet people (47%), and because friends volunteered
at that organization (43%). The least frequently reported reasons
were to fulfill religious obligations or other beliefs (22%), or to
improve job opportunities (22%).
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- Why volunteer? Cont. Just over 7% of volunteers said that they
were required to volunteer for the organization to which they
contributed the most hours. It is worth noting that there is some
debate as to whether such activities should be included within the
concept of volunteering.
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- Why did youth volunteer? to improve their job opportunities to
explore their own strengths because their friends volunteer
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- Private/informal volunteering 83% of the population, aged 15
and older, helped others directly, without going through a
charitable or other nonprofit organization.
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- Informal volunteering Canadians provided assistance directly to
others in a variety of ways: 60% provided help in the home, such as
cooking, cleaning, gardening, maintenance, painting, shovelling
snow or car repairs; 50% provided health-related or personal care,
such as emotional support, counseling, providing advice, visiting
the elderly or unpaid babysitting; 46% helped by shopping, driving
someone to the store or to other appointments; 28% helped with
paperwork tasks such as writing letters, doing taxes, filling out
forms, banking, paying bills or finding information ; and 16%
provided unpaid teaching, coaching, tutoring, or assisting with
reading.
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- Halifax Community Services In small groups, brainstorm a list
of volunteers associated with Citadel High School.