Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Performing Their Civic Duty: A Theory of Volunteer Participation
- 2 Patterns of Participation: Volunteering around the World
- 3 Volunteering in Japan: Not Where You Would Expect
- 4 Practices That Count: Legitimizing, Organizing, and Funding Volunteers
- 5 Engaged Communities: The Community Volunteerism Model
- 6 Cross-National Volunteer Participation: Testing the Community Volunteerism Model
- 7 Conclusion: Practicing Citizenship
- Appendix A Research Design and Methods
- Appendix B Membership Source Information
- Appendix C Volunteering in Kashihara, Sakata, and Sanda
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix B - Membership Source Information
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Performing Their Civic Duty: A Theory of Volunteer Participation
- 2 Patterns of Participation: Volunteering around the World
- 3 Volunteering in Japan: Not Where You Would Expect
- 4 Practices That Count: Legitimizing, Organizing, and Funding Volunteers
- 5 Engaged Communities: The Community Volunteerism Model
- 6 Cross-National Volunteer Participation: Testing the Community Volunteerism Model
- 7 Conclusion: Practicing Citizenship
- Appendix A Research Design and Methods
- Appendix B Membership Source Information
- Appendix C Volunteering in Kashihara, Sakata, and Sanda
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
INTERNATIONAL
Amnesty International
Japan: 6,461 members. http://www.amnesty.or.jp/profile.shtml (Japanese) (5/15/03)
United States: 300,000 members. Telephone conversation with Amnesty International USA headquarters, in New York (3/8/03)
Greenpeace
Japan: 4,500 supporters. http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/info/index_en_html (10/23/05)
United States: 250,000 members. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/about (10/23/05)
Lions Clubs
Data on membership in Lions Clubs from an email correspondence from the U.S. headquarters of Lions and Lioness Clubs International (1/2/03)
Australia: 28,185
Finland: 27,200
Germany: 41,336
Japan: 135,285
Mexico: 12,996
Norway: 13,748
Spain: 2,579
Sweden: 14,826
Switzerland: 8,136 (includes Luxembourg)
Turkey: 9,489
United States: 437,887 (includes affiliates in Bermuda and the Bahamas)
Parent-Teacher Associations
Finland: Finnish Parent's Association, 200,000 parents; 1,100 associations. European Parents Association (www.epa-parents.org) (10/23/05) and www.suomenvanhempainliitto.fi (10/23/05)
Japan: 11 million. Nippon PTA Zenkoku Kyougikai (Japan's National PTA Council): http://www.nippon-pta.or.jp/jigyougaiyou/gaiyou_3.html (12/21/05).
Spain: Confederation Catolica Nacional de Padres de Familia y Padres de Alumnos, 3 million families. http://www.concapa.org/modules.php?name=Contenido&pa=showpage&pid=1 (8/8/06) (Spanish)
Turkey: none. Email correspondence with Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C. (1/28/03)
United States: 6 million members, 26,000 local units. National PTA: www.pta.org/jp_why_join_pta.html (12/21/05)
Red Cross
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Profile of national Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies: http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/profile/index.asp (10/23/05)
Membership analysis based on forty-four countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, India, Japan, Korea (South), Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, United States, Venezuela
Rotary Club International
Data on membership in Rotary Clubs from email correspondence (2/10/04) from Rotary Club International. Membership for each country (as of 1/31/04)
Australia: 35,892
Finland: 11,650
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- Politics and Volunteering in JapanA Global Perspective, pp. 187 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007