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  2. Volunteering - Wikipedia

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    In other words, Moral Resource II helps the grassroots organizations with little Political Capital I to win Political Capital-II, which is a crucial factor for their survival and growth in developing countries such as China. Therefore, the voluntary service realm could be an enclave of the development of civil society in the developing nations ...

  3. Medical volunteerism - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the most common reason for medical volunteering is expressing or acting on important values, such as humanitarianism and helping those less fortunate and seeking to learn more about the world and/or exercise skills that are often unused.

  4. Moving to Opportunity - Wikipedia

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    A critique in the Du Bois Review (2004) by Arline Geronimus and J. Phillip Thompson calls the Moving to Opportunity study "politically naive". [11] Their study theorizes that moving a family into a higher income neighborhood might solve immediate, direct health risks (for example clean water, less crime) however the loss of social integration, stress factors, and racially influenced ...

  5. Paying It Forward: Nobody Volunteered

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    Of these, who answers your calls to volunteer? Volunteers come in more than one skillset, some with multiples: talent, testimonial, time, and/or treasure. Testimony from volunteers is powerful.

  6. Volunteer computing - Wikipedia

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    A program running on a volunteer's computer periodically contacts a research application server via the Internet to request jobs and report results.. Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which people donate their computers' unused resources to a research-oriented project, [1] and sometimes in exchange for credit points. [2]

  7. Crowdsourcing - Wikipedia

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    The task of sorting through crowdworkers' contributions, along with the necessary job of managing the crowd, requires companies to hire actual employees, thereby increasing management overhead. [205] For example, susceptibility to faulty results can be caused by targeted, malicious work efforts.

  8. Unpaid work - Wikipedia

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    In other words, men provide the money and women are to provide 'unpaid labor'. Consequently, in the field of "unpaid care work" men typically take on far less responsibility than women due to the socially constructed 'gender division of labor' which assigns the obligation of 'caring labor' to women.

  9. Work (human activity) - Wikipedia

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    Work, labor (labour in Commonwealth English), or an occupation or job is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and desires of themselves, other people, or organizations. [1] In the context of economics , work can be viewed as the human activity that contributes (along with other factors of production ) towards the goods ...