The Voluntary Action History Society is a learned society that was established in 1991 to promote the historical study and understanding of charity, philanthropy...
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"Charity and the Coalition: Whatever Happened to the Big Society?". Voluntary Action History Society Blog. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved...
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A voluntary group or union (also sometimes called a voluntary organization, common-interest association,: 266 association, or society) is a group of individuals...
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supporters of The Voluntaryist magazine, which supports a voluntary-funded state (i.e. "the Voluntary State"), meaning a lack of coercion and force in matters...
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in program development for voluntary efforts, and sought to make voluntary action an important force in American society. The organization had its origins...
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Poor Relief and Charity in a Legal and Local Context" (PDF). Voluntary Action History Society. "Rating and Valuation Act, 1925" (PDF). legislation.gov.uk...
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Voice for Animals Humane Society, a Canadian non-profit organisation Voluntary Action History Society, a British learned society This disambiguation page...
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Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness describes the active choice not to have children. Use of the word "childfree" was first recorded in 1901 and...
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(PRNH), will similarly result in death. Some authors classify this voluntary action as a form of passive euthanasia, while others treat it separately because...
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Disablement Income Group (section History)
Millward. "Disability and Voluntarism in British Policy Making". Voluntary Action History Society. Retrieved 31 December 2012. Catalogue of the DIG archives...
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August 2019. Fowler, Simon. "The Origins of Flag Days" (PDF). Voluntary Action History Society. Retrieved 31 August 2019. Allen, Tony. "ww1 Penny-Flags and...
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Jesuits (redirect from Brothers of the Society of Jesus)
The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ˈdʒɛʒuɪts, ˈdʒɛzju-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-;...
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The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause...
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"Empire and Mission: Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet?". Voluntary Action History Society. Retrieved 11 October 2020. "New Year Honours, 1939". The British...
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The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) was founded and incorporated in 1971 by David Horton Smith, with...
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agricultural history, urban history and industrialisation. The distant past does not offer much information on the structures of society. However, major...
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assistance to suicide from selfish motives" (Art. 115). Any active role in voluntary euthanasia ("manslaughter on request") is also outlawed, even if done...
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It works to support the voluntary and community sector and to create an environment in which an independent civil society can flourish. NCVO has a membership...
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Étienne de La Boétie (redirect from On Voluntary Servitude)
essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes...
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Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action is the national infrastructure body for the voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland. NICVA also...
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to the modern concept of the unincorporated or voluntary association.: 124–25 The tumultuous history of the Wars of the Roses and then the Star Chamber...
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Euthanasia (section Voluntary euthanasia)
is categorised in different ways, which include voluntary, non-voluntary, and involuntary. Voluntary euthanasia is when a person wishes to have their...
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Voluntary taxation is a theory that states that taxation should be a voluntary act. Under the theory, people should have the option to pay taxes instead...
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Anarchism (redirect from Anarchism and society)
Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. A historically left-wing movement, anarchism...
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Propaganda of the deed (category History of anarchism)
deed, from the French propagande par le fait) is specific political direct action meant to be exemplary to others and serve as a catalyst for revolution....
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The Wildlife Trusts (redirect from Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts)
charity’s first director of climate action in January 2022. Today's Wildlife Trust movement began life as The Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves...
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specialization of labor via social roles. Societies construct roles and other patterns of behavior by deeming certain actions or concepts acceptable or unacceptable—these...
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In the United States, affirmative action consists of government-mandated, government-approved, and voluntary private programs granting special consideration...
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systematized through the efforts of the Charity Organisation Society. The third consisted of social action - rather than engaging in the resolution of immediate...
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values possessed by actual individuals. All actions are voluntary exchanges where the cost of an action is the value of the price paid and the forgone...
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