volunteering
work undertaken freely by individuals as a service to others
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Summary
volunteering ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,833 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- volunteering is a type of voluntary action[2].
- volunteering is a type of voluntarism[3].
- volunteering is a type of unpaid work[4].
- volunteering's Commons category is recorded as Volunteering[5].
- volunteering's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Volunteering[6].
- volunteering's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
- volunteering's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Second Edition[8].
- volunteering's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C171228[9].
- volunteering's different from is recorded as voluntarism[10].
- volunteering's practiced by is recorded as volunteer[11].
- volunteering's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12].
Body
Definition and Type
Recorded subclass of include voluntary action[2], voluntarism[3], and unpaid work[4].
Influence
Things named for volunteering include KölnEngagiert[13], an award[14], in Germany[15].
Why It Matters
volunteering ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,833 views/month).[1] volunteering has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] volunteering is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]
Entities named for volunteering include KölnEngagiert[13], an award[14], in Germany[15].