Essays on A volunteer recruitment package

Types of volunteer cooperation are on site: refers to the cooperation from the country where you reside in an organization with projects outside the country, conducting awareness-raising, fundraising, management support, etc. International Volunteering: works directly in a project that takes place in a country other than that which usually resides. Some organizations prefer to call this kind of collaboration “fair tourism” or “solidarity trip.” There are different ways how a person can understand the purpose of volunteering. Voluntary welfare: it relieves the consequences of exclusion, without finding ways to change that. Volunteer development: looking for a change in the exclusion, giving people the tools to overcome suffering. Volunteer activist: looking for a change in the exclusion, denouncing the conditions that produce it and demanding that they disappear. Volunteering as cheap labor, many organizations used to reduce project costs, according to Volunteer management (2011).

According to the involvement in an organization there is: formal volunteering- volunteering takes place within the framework of an incorporated entity. Informal volunteering: volunteering is done without association or foundation that will protect him, that is not part through a legally constituted organization.

Depending on the level occupied by the volunteer organization there are: Volunteer base: includes volunteers directly involved in the execution of an activity.

Volunteer in charge: includes people who coordinate a group of volunteer or take responsibility for a project.

Volunteer position: involves people who make decisions in an organization through an officer of a governing body. Depending on the level of presence or absence of the volunteer based there is a classroom volunteer: volunteering is done in a center or a physical space of the entity, in direct contact with others in the organization and / or people served. Virtual volunteering: volunteering is done electronically, through channels such as internet, telephone, etc. Semi Volunteering: Volunteering is part of the virtual and part-face, according to Volunteers for individuals (2010).

According to the project time: volunteer time or micro volunteer- represents the reduced participation requires a few hours or days. Some organizations prefer to refer to this as a form of voluntary participation, but not voluntary because-for them-the volunteer commitment involves a routine. Volunteering vacation: the person is involved during the vacation time, but many organizations provide and / or require previous training and receive a part in a period of reflection and subsequent activism. Volunteers continued: regular commitment is required of the volunteer, probably at least a year.

Types of volunteering rarer profiles: Volunteering children- it involves less than 18 years in a volunteer activity. According to most laws on volunteering there, only people over 18 are voluntary, so this type of volunteering involves the design of some specific activities tailored to this profile. Volunteer State law sets no minimum age for volunteering. Family Volunteering: designed to give possibility for collaboration, people with family responsibilities, improve ties and, at the same time, to begin to sensitize children. Volunteer adults: promoting active aging and the more knowledge and experience are not lost. Volunteering expert: project promotes the involvement of people with less time but with high levels of knowledge on a topic to advice on a project. Typically, the resulting volunteer is intellectual and virtual. Corporate Volunteering: here a company promotes the involvement of people from its staff on a project, often in a timely volunteer as a “Volunteer Day”. Many organizations criticize this type of volunteer because they consider it a way to launder the image of the company. On the other hand, many NGOs use it as a way to raise funds. Volunteer “ambassador” promotes the commitment of a celebrity or famous in a project to build its image as a tool for promoting the initiative, according to All hands volunteers (2011).