Creating and sustaining a strong future for volunteering in Australia

该项目旨在回答如何通过将非志愿人员转化为志愿服务的好处来增加社会参与的问题。在今天的澳大利亚，社区和政府越来越依赖志愿人员来建立社会资本和提供越来越多的服务。这个项目是世界上第一个，旨在通过研究三个层次的分析来创造新的理论：个人志愿者或非志愿者的微观层次;志愿者参与组织的中观层次;社会的宏观层次。这一创新方法旨在确定、分析和开发一种工具，以帮助各组织建立澳大利亚的民间社会，并制定政策，在未来建立一个可持续的志愿者部门。

This project seeks to answer the question of how to increase social participation by converting non-volunteers to the benefits of volunteering. In Australia today, communities and governments are increasingly dependent on volunteers to build social capital and deliver an increasing range of services. A world first, this project aims to create new theory by examining three levels of analysis: the micro level of the individual volunteer or non-volunteer; the mezzo level of the volunteer-involving organisation; and the macro level of society. This innovative approach aims to identify, analyse and develop a tool to help organisations build Australia’s civil society and develop policy to create a sustainable volunteer sector into the future.