Triona Fitton and I have written a Comment piece for VSRjournal, called 'On charity and sex', arguing that our idea/image of what 'the voluntary sector' is remains quite narrow and restrictive. Please email if you'd like to read and don't have access: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

Making the case for spending down: Alice Hengevoss & Georg von Schnurbein of the Center for Philanthropy Studies CEPS Basel University of Basel, argue “the value of perpetuity rests not in the foundation itself, but in its legacy and the social impact it generates.” ssir.org/articles/entry…

Great to meet Sally Robinson from Flinders University and to catch up with the ever-excellent Zara Todd (plus cats!) this morning, chatting about disability research - a great excuse for another share of mine and Zara's paper on disabled leaders in the voluntary sector bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

'Community cohesion and the role of mosques in Cardiff: the views of imams' by Dr Wendy A Booth and Ahmed Mohammed.

#Mosques #CommunityCohesion #Intercultural #Muslims

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What do you think of our new cover?
We're still giving you accessible, high-quality peer-reviewed papers on all aspects of the voluntary, community, civil society and third sectors.
Now we just look good doing it 😎
VSSN #ThirdSector #Volunteering

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'The role of coping strategies in subjective wellbeing indicators of non-profit workers' by Zeynep B. Uǧur

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Relationships between supermarkets and food charities in reducing food insecurity: lessons learned doi.org/10.1332/204080…

Very happy to share the link to our paper published by Voluntary Sector Review (Policy Press, Bristol) titled Community cohesion and the role of mosques in Cardiff: the views of imams:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/… #communitycohesion #mosques #voluntarysectorreview #policypress

Calling all voluntary sector colleagues VSRjournal
invites short contributions from researchers, policy makers & practitioners discussing policy developments, research findings or practical insights (which are now free to view for all) VSSN More info: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

'War-time volunteering and population displacement: from spontaneous help to organised volunteering in post-2014 Ukraine.'

#Ukraine #Volunteering #War

🔓 READ the full article with #OpenAccess by Oksana Mikheieva and Irina B. Kuznetsova

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Congratulations to Sophia Browning (University of Kent)

⭐ Your article was one of the top 5 most downloaded papers in #VSRjournal in 2023!

🔓 Read the full paper with #OpenAccess here!
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🥳🥳Shout out to Francesca Calò, Marissa Collins, Cam Donaldson and Michael Roy!

🔥 Your paper was one of the top 5 most downloaded articles in #VSRjournal in 2023!

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👏👏 Amazing work from Claudio Balestri!

Your article 'Membership and citizenship within an embedded theory of democracy' was one of the top 5 most downloaded papers in #VSRjournal in 2023!

⬇️ Read the paper for free in the #MostRead collection here:
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⚡ Shout out to Christian Möller and Helen Abnett!

Their paper 'Strategic distinctiveness: awakening the ‘sleeping giants’ of England and Wales’s NHS charities' was one of 2023's top 5 most downloaded papers!

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Congratulations to Dr Kelli Kennedy and Professor Carolyn Snell 🥳

Your article was one of the top 5 most downloaded papers in #VSRjournal in 2023! 👏👏

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An Assoc Prof at Geography Birmingham, Irina B. Kuznetsova studies migration, health and internal displacement. She has written this fascinating piece about wartime volunteering in #Ukraine in support of IDPs 9/13
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New article from myself, Dr Lindsay Findlay-King and others addressing how successful community ownership is understood by different stakeholders.

Prescient findings covering how alignments in understandings enhance capacity for community ownership projects.
PhD Voice - Independently Run PhD Forum Power to Change

Article out today - Dr. Stuart Haw and Paul Potrac from NU Sport Ex & Rehab Useful read for fellow CAT researchers and practitioners.

Understandings of success for groups managing leisure facilities through Community Asset Transfers doi.org/10.1332/204080…

#CAT #sportvolunteering

⌛ Last chance to check out our sample issue, free to read until 31st December!

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How can charities work with supermarkets to reduce #FoodInsecurity ? This new blog from Professor Carolyn Snell & Dr Kelli Kennedy looks at the lessons learned from supermarket-charity partnerships transformingsociety.co.uk/2023/12/07/the…