"Exploring Hispanic American Involvement in Community Leadership through Volunteerism"
R. Dale Safrit and Josue Lopez
Journal of Leaderhips Studies, Winter/Spring 2001.

One of the least-researched areas of volunteer involvement in the United States is that of ethnic volunteering. Hispanic volunteering, in particular, has received much less attention than it deserves considering the vast increase in size and importance of the Hispanic population of the United States.

This qualitative study, by Safrit and Lopez, is one of the few efforts to examine Hispanic reactions to volunteering. Data for the study was gathered through interviews and the results must be evaluated in the context of a small population sample (20 participants), all of whom lived in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. In addition, individuals selected for interviewing were nominated by Hispanic community groups from among their pool of current volunteers, which raises the possibility that they may possess some attitudinal differences from Hispanic community norms.

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