Program Evaluation: An NGO's Attempt to use Volunteerism to Promote Community Development
This thesis provides an ethnographic account of a NGOs effort to recruit and retain volunteers. Specifically, this project is a program evaluation of a community-based grant designed as a bottom-up approach to empower community residents to make changes in their community. The study details the many...
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Scholar Commons
2012
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4138 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5334&context=etd |
| Summary: | This thesis provides an ethnographic account of a NGOs effort to recruit and retain volunteers. Specifically, this project is a program evaluation of a community-based grant designed as a bottom-up approach to empower community residents to make changes in their community. The study details the many efforts - and obstacles - involved in this process. It is presented as a contribution to the anthropology of policy, to evaluation theory, and to applied anthropological methods. The investigator used participant-observation fieldwork and ethnographic interviews of both volunteer and non-volunteers to evaluate the program's successes and failures. |
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