10 Facts About Voluntary sector

Richard Cornuelle coined the term "independent Voluntary sector" and was one of the first scholars to point out the vast impact and unique mechanisms of this Voluntary sector.

Presence of a large non-profit Voluntary sector is sometimes seen as an indicator of a healthy economy in local and national financial measurements.

Peter Drucker suggests that the nonprofit Voluntary sector provides an excellent outlet for a variety of society's labor and skills.

In Sweden, the nonprofit Voluntary sector is attributed with fostering a nationwide social change towards progressive economic, social and cultural policies, while in Italy the third Voluntary sector is increasingly viewed as a primary employment source for the entire country.

The community sector is assumed to comprise volunteers while the voluntary sector are considered to employ staff working for a social or community purpose.

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Development of the third Voluntary sector, it is argued, is linked to restructuring of the welfare state and further globalization of that process through neo-liberal strategies of the Washington consensus.

Discourse on the "third Voluntary sector" began in the 1970s in France as a result of the crisis in the welfare state.

In India this Voluntary sector is commonly called the "joint Voluntary sector", and includes the industries run in partnership by the state and Private Sector.

In Israel this Voluntary sector is commonly called the "Third Sector", and generally refers to non-profit organizations and non-governmental organizations with the line between the two quite fine.

The term third Voluntary sector has now been replaced in Government usage by the term Civil Society, or for while under the Cameron government, the term Big Society, which was devised by political advisers and which featured prominently in the Conservative Party's 2010 election campaign.