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Teenage Volunteers and Their Values

School of Public Administration, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Sally A. Raskoff

Department of Sociology of Pitzer College in Claremont, California.

This article analyzes national survey data sponsored by the independent SECTOR and collected by the Gallup organization in 1991. The survey shows that values that favor charity and eschew material goals encourage volunteering, and also that youth from higher social classes are more likely to volunteer than those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Participation in religious activities and spiritual values are not related to the likelihood of volunteering. Although these findings help us to understand who volunteers, they also suggest strategies volunteer organizers may use to attract volunteers from underrepresented groups.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4, 337-357 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/089976409502400406


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