ORGANIZED COOPERATION: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE ON VOLUNTEERISM.
In 2014 in the United States, an estimated 62.8 million people, or 25.3% of the population volunteered their time and money to a nonprofit organization, spending around 7.9 billion hours of volunteer time ("Volunteering in 2014," 2015). Volunteerism accounts for a significant portion of the workforc...
| Published in: | Behavior & Social Issues Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 77 - 99 |
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