Graduation Year
2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Granting Department
Anthropology
Major Professor
Kevin Yelvington, D. Phil.
Committee Member
Antoinette Jackson, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Angela Stuesse, Ph.D.
Keywords
volunteer, neoliberalism, development, empowerment, community building
Abstract
This thesis provides an ethnographic account of a NGOs effort to recruit and retain volunteers. Specifically, this project is a program evaluation of a community-based grant designed as a bottom-up approach to empower community residents to make changes in their community. The study details the many efforts - and obstacles - involved in this process. It is presented as a contribution to the anthropology of policy, to evaluation theory, and to applied anthropological methods. The investigator used participant-observation fieldwork and ethnographic interviews of both volunteer and non-volunteers to evaluate the program's successes and failures.
Scholar Commons Citation
Mael, Adrienne Sage, "Program Evaluation: An NGO's Attempt to use Volunteerism to Promote Community Development" (2012). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/4138
