"volunteerism" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone's involvement in a voluntary organization or activity, such as donating time or money to a charity. For example, "John's commitment to volunteerism is inspiring to everyone around him."
Reward community health workers to ensure a high standard: Volunteerism may work, but only up to a point.
Implicit in the latter was an assumption that volunteerism lacked the powers and wherewithal of the state to provide basic, universal services.
Whereas David Cameron, the prime minister, promised to change Britain, with a fuzzy idea of volunteerism, Mr Osborne is actually changing it.His ambition is to make a more industrious society, less blighted by the entitlement culture that blossomed under Labour.
According to the Rev Wayne Taylor, the director of volunteerism and leisure ministries for the Florida Baptist Convention, "People seem to be more open to spiritual ideas in a leisure setting".
After the Los Angeles riots in 1992, when government and city money still seemed slow to appear, black ministers brought in Amish from Pennsylvania (where volunteerism has always been a way of life) to teach the rudiments of barn-raising to people whose homes had been destroyed.
He vowed to fight climate change (an early photo opportunity was with huskies in the Arctic) and promote gay rights, overseas aid and volunteerism; he swore to protect the NHS.
"We look at the European Union and we worry about Britain's ability to compete in the global race," says Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary.Focus groups reportedly like the race idea, too which is more than could be said for the Tories' previous message, a fuzzy vision of volunteerism called the "big society".
Unsecured cargo may have shifted, causing the vessel to tilt, especially if it was overloaded and did not have enough ballast water onboard, as is now suspected.The tragedy has kindled a spirit of unity and volunteerism in South Korea, as people have gone to help the victims' families.
Part of the explanation is that civic volunteerism is also being eroded by things that have little to do with mobility per se: television and computers; hours spent stuck in traffic jams; even the decline of family meals because both parents are at work.In need of friendsBut the bigger part of the explanation has to do with the paradoxical impact of mobility itself on people's clubbiness.
Because mobility stimulates demand for clubs, you would expect to find new forms of civil volunteerism starting to crop up.
The proportion who said they attended club meetings fell from nearly two-thirds of the population in the mid-1970s to a little over one-third in the late 1990s.Special report Degrees of separation Centrifugal forces The Americano dream Middle of the class The glue of society Motion dismissed Motion sustained Sources ReprintsIt was not solely the decline in volunteerism that was the problem.
