Government Funding and the Voluntary Sector

The activities of the voluntary sector have a special value for society. Because voluntary institutions are not as constrained as either government or business in the things they may do, or the ways in which they may do them, the voluntary sector can act as a catalyst of innovation, operating on the frontiers of human initiative and imagination. It can also, at the opposite end of the spectrum, act on a much more homely and human scale than either government or business to help individuals in need. The activities of the voluntary sector are, in the broadest sense, motivated by the interest of the individuals and institutions performing them in increas-ing in some way the stock of human welfare. They vary widely in scope and scale, ranging from reading to the blind in a local community to multimillion dollar programs of research into improved varieties of foodgrains. They have traditionally been initiated by the voluntary impulses of individual men and women who perceive a social need and have been supported by voluntary gifts of money, goods or time

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• Canadian NGOs

  Open Access•Brent Herbert-Copley•World Development•1987

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• The Endangered Sector

  Waldemar A Nielsen•Endangered Sector•1979

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