This volume, featuring empirically-based case studies, provides an opportunity to analyze communication and other organizational issues in nonprofit, volunteer, and philanthropic contexts. Each case is designed to help readers critically think about the particular nonprofit context, the organizational issues presented and ways in which those issues could be addressed.

This volume, featuring empirically-based case studies, provides an opportunity to analyze communication and other organizational issues in nonprofit, volunteer, and philanthropic contexts. Each case is designed to help readers critically think about the particular nonprofit context, the organizational issues presented and ways in which those issues could be addressed.

The second volume of seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, which demonstrated the breadth of research being conducted on volunteers. The focus of this book is on the important issues related to volunteering in international and intercultural contexts with studies from countries such as Thailand, South Korea, Australia, Canada, the US, and more.

This book is the first edited volume written primarily by communication scholars to focus on volunteers. The contributors divided this volume into five sections which cover becoming a volunteer; learning about self as a volunteer; dark sides of volunteering; organizationally supported volunteering; and voice and dissent.

This book is the first edited volume written primarily by communication scholars to focus on volunteers. The contributors divided this volume into five sections which cover becoming a volunteer; learning about self as a volunteer; dark sides of volunteering; organizationally supported volunteering; and voice and dissent.