Creating and sustaining a strong future for volunteering in Australia

该项目试图回答如何通过将非志愿人员转变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者来建立社会资本和提供越来越广泛的服务。作为世界上第一个项目，该项目旨在通过考察三个层面的分析来创造新的理论：个人志愿者或非志愿者的微观层面；参与志愿者的组织的中层层面；以及社会的宏观层面。这一创新方法旨在确定、分析和开发一种工具，以帮助各组织建设澳大利亚的公民社会，并制定政策，以创建面向未来的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.