European Solidarity Corps Projects Responding to COVID-19: Implications for Future Crises
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world in an unprecedented way, affecting various areas of the economy and society, including nonprofits and volunteering. However, nonprofits and volunteering did not just face challenges due to the pandemic; they also played a role in dealing with it. This ar...
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In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world in an unprecedented way, affecting various areas of the economy and society, including nonprofits and volunteering. However, nonprofits and volunteering did not just face challenges due to the pandemic; they also played a role in dealing with it. This article focuses on the European Solidarity Corps (ESC), an EU initiative that promotes solidarity through volunteering in countries worldwide. There was a content analysis of all the ESC projects with pandemic-relevant keywords. Though the ESC requests for proposals in the first year of the pandemic did not address the pandemic, about 8% of projects explicitly named the pandemic as either a main or secondary reason for the projects. The ESC projects represent a way to relatively flexibly allocate public funding for local and international volunteer projects dealing with various humanitarian crises, such as COVID-19 or the war in Ukraine.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e8b41acd6fbd4554b97d5c182d444d512023-06-10T14:11:37ZengMidwest Public Affairs ConferenceJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs2381-37172023-06-0110.20899/jpna.9.2.1-37European Solidarity Corps Projects Responding to COVID-19: Implications for Future CrisesJakub Dostál0College of Polytechnics Jihlava In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world in an unprecedented way, affecting various areas of the economy and society, including nonprofits and volunteering. However, nonprofits and volunteering did not just face challenges due to the pandemic; they also played a role in dealing with it. This article focuses on the European Solidarity Corps (ESC), an EU initiative that promotes solidarity through volunteering in countries worldwide. There was a content analysis of all the ESC projects with pandemic-relevant keywords. Though the ESC requests for proposals in the first year of the pandemic did not address the pandemic, about 8% of projects explicitly named the pandemic as either a main or secondary reason for the projects. The ESC projects represent a way to relatively flexibly allocate public funding for local and international volunteer projects dealing with various humanitarian crises, such as COVID-19 or the war in Ukraine. https://www.jpna.org/index.php/jpna/article/view/778Public ProjectsNonprofit OrganizationsVolunteeringCOVID-19 Pandemic |
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| title | European Solidarity Corps Projects Responding to COVID-19: Implications for Future Crises |
| title_full | European Solidarity Corps Projects Responding to COVID-19: Implications for Future Crises |
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| title_short | European Solidarity Corps Projects Responding to COVID-19: Implications for Future Crises |
| title_sort | european solidarity corps projects responding to covid 19 implications for future crises |
| topic | Public Projects Nonprofit Organizations Volunteering COVID-19 Pandemic |
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