THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS INTERACTION MODELS IN THE SPHERE OF VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The issue of institutionalization of the volunteer movement in Russia in the context of consideration of such forms as: social and cultural partnership, corporate volunteering, cooperation. Social and cultural partnership in the field of volunteerism is characterized as a constructive cooperation between three major sectors: public, private and public organizations. The public and private sector interaction models in the field of volunteer activities (classical, state, self-organization, etc.) are characterized. The main directions of volunteer movement development, in which a special role is given to the state structures and civil society interaction system: event volunteering, social volunteering, cultural and educational volunteering, medical volunteering, environmental volunteering, silver volunteering, inclusive volunteering. Attention is focused on corporate volunteering, which is just beginning to develop on the territory of the Russian Federation and pursues the goal of spreading the best volunteer social and cultural actions to promote socially significant volunteer activities of the company’s staff. Corporate volunteering is defined as voluntary and gratuitous activity of employees of the organization on the basis of their initiative participation in the practice of “helping behavior”. The analysis of the leading domestic and foreign volunteer practices implemented on the basis of various models of intersectoral social interaction aimed at the development of social initiatives of the population is presented.