Socio-Structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: A Resource-Based Approach

Maikel Meijeren; Marcel Lubbers; P.L.H. Scheepers

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Socio-Structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: A Resource-Based Approach

Maikel Meijeren^*, Marcel Lubbers, P.L.H. Scheepers

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Radboud University Nijmegen

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Abstract

This article examines who volunteers for humanitarian organizations as compared to volunteering for other organizations versus people not volunteering, in the Netherlands. Using high-quality survey data (N = 5,050), we depart from a classic theoretical resource-based approach to study what forms of resources play a role in the likelihood to volunteer for different types of civic associations. We find that education and subjective health as indicators of human capital matter in volunteering for most types of associations, however, more so for humanitarian organizations than some other types of organizations. Social capital is of larger importance in volunteering for leisure organizations than for humanitarian ones, while cultural capital is relevant for volunteering but not more for humanitarian associations. Some forms of capital are thus stronger related to particular organizations, showing the different demographic compositions of the distinguished associations. We recommend to be more sensitive in distinguishing explanations of volunteering for different associations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1058-1076
Number of pages	19
Journal	Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Volume	52
Issue number	4
Early online date	4 Aug 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640221114821
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study is part of the research program Sustainable Cooperation—Roadmaps to Resilient Societies (SCOOP). The authors are grateful to the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) for generously funding this research in the context of its 2017 Gravitation Program (grant number 024.003.025).

Funders	Funder number
Ministerie van onderwijs, cultuur en wetenschap	024.003.025
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Keywords

human capital
humanitarian organizations
refugees
social capital
volunteering

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