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ArticleNonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly2024

COVID-19 Pandemic, Physical Distancing Policies, and the Non-Profit Sector Volunteer Force.

Michael Lebenbaum, Claire de Oliveira, Joanne McKiernan, France Gagnon, Audrey Laporte

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Article in Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Michael LebenbaumUniversity of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6319-3466
Claire de OliveiraUniversity of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Joanne McKiernanVolunteer Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
France GagnonUniversity of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Audrey LaporteUniversity of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although COVID-19-related physical distancing has had large economic consequences, the impact on volunteerism is unclear. Using volunteer position postings data from Canada's largest volunteer center (Volunteer Toronto) from February 3, 2020, to January 4, 2021, we evaluated the impact of different levels of physical distancing on average views, total views, and total number of posts. There was about a 50% decrease in the total number of posts that was sustained throughout the pandemic. Although a more restrictive physical distancing policy was generally associated with fewer views, there was an initial increase in views during the first lockdown where total views were elevated for the first 4 months of the pandemic. This was driven by interest in COVID-19-related and remote work postings. This highlights the community of volunteers may be quite flexible in terms of adapting to new ways of volunteering, but substantial challenges remain for the continued operations of many non-profit organizations.

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COVID-19demand for volunteer laborphysical distancingvolunteer interestvolunteerism

Identifiers

PMID38250580
PMCPMC10116199

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