Situational Factors Influencing Sustained Volunteer Commitment in Professional Associations

Professional associations rely on member volunteers to perform organizational work. Yet, half of these volunteers do not intend to volunteer in the future or are ambivalent towards future volunteering (Gazley, 2013). Combined with a dearth of empirical research on both professional associations in general (Webb & Abzug, 2008) and on the volunteer experience in particular (Wilson, 2012), this qualitative study utilizes grounded theory methodology to improve our understanding of the volunteer experience of volunteering at professional associations. Our aim is to determine how this experience occurs to professional volunteers, and in what ways this experience (or these experiences) lead to effective and sustainable volunteer recruitment, engagement, efficacy, and retention. Theorization of our findings emerges largely through the lens of social construction (Berger & Luckmann, 1966; Gergen, 2009) because volunteering is characterized as a form of social action (Snyder & Omoto, 2008). We elucidate a mosaic of specific situational factors that contribute to the positive experience of professional volunteering, which can inform strategies implemented by professional associations in order to increase volunteer engagement

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ROLE OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE CONTROL OF FRUITING OF <i>SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE</i>

Niederpruem, Donald J. (Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis). Role of carbon dioxide in the control of fruiting of Schizophyllum commune . J. Bacteriol. 85: 1300–1308. 1963.—Compatible matings of Schizophyllum commune carried out in sealed chambers showed good vegetative growth and clamp-connection formation but fruiting was markedly inhibited. This inhibition was reversed by either aeration or the inclusion of alkali in the chambers. These phenomena occurred on a defined medium, with glucose as the primary carbon source, and were dependent on the level of carbohydrate employed. Gas mixtures of air-CO 2 (95:5) severely restricted the fruiting process when applied during mating or before the formation of fruit body primordia. It is proposed that respiratory CO 2 plays an important role in the regulation of form of S. commune . </jats:p