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Consideration of some of the issues and tensions around Day Centre provision, reflecting the experience of running the Lincoln Centre, which has Home Office approval but does not seek Schedule 11 conditions. Various dilemmas arising from simultaneous but conflicting agendas fromm clients, staff and courts are highlighted, as well as the sometimes alarming 'side effects' of managingsuch a resource.

Civic organizations have long been heralded for promoting voluntarism and civic participation, yet observational studies, facing endogeneity concerns, have struggled to solidify the causal underpinnings of the neo-Tocquevillian theory. Furthermore, empirical examination of their recruitment efficacy relative to state entities, particularly in crises or authoritarian settings, remains scarce. Our survey experiment in COVID-period China provides a twofold crucial case study. By embodying both the "most likely case" of effective state-led mobilization and the "least likely case" of potent civic organization efforts, it offers unique analytical leverage and insights. Civic appeals significantly boosted volunteer inclinations, whereas governmental outreach had minimal or even negative effects. This civic boost was stronger among those with less social and political trust and channeled by heightened political efficacy and active citizenship norms. Our findings shed light on the pivotal roles of civic organizations, even in authoritarian settings featuring embryonic civil societies.

Graduates of a 1970s training program for women demonstrated that they had expanded the social change and voluntarism agenda of their earlier training to incorporate feminism and personal action in the workplace. These women were active professionals espousing personal achievement and individual voluntarism, yet they had forsworn col lective action. They mirror the oddity of American feminism in defin ing even social change in individualistic terms.

"Tutti fratelli", cried with emotion the women of Castiglione when, with Henry Dunant, they tended the wounded after the battle of Solferino. In this cry from the heart, this testimony to human solidarity in distress and to voluntary assistance to men who surfer, is to be found the origin of a movement which has so widely expanded during the years and which is called the Red Cross