Abstract
The volunteering boom that occurred in Spanish society in the 1990s was strongly associated with activities related to solidarity and altruism and did not contribute to increasing the social visibility of sports volunteering, even though the first sports clubs and associations were created in Spain at the end of the 19th century. This situation has changed in the past 15 years due to the growth in the number of initiatives that look at sports for social purposes, as well as the proliferation of large popular sports events and competitions whose organization requires the mass participation of sports volunteers. Coinciding with this evolution, the recently passed Volunteer Law 45/2015 proposes a broader vision of volunteering – that no longer views altruism as its main motivation – and explicitly refers to the sports volunteering phenomenon at the same time that it points out its benefits for society in terms of citizen cohesion, the community dimension of sports practice, social inclusion, and associative life.
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Along with other types of volunteering, including social, international, environmental, cultural, educational, healthcare, free and leisure time, community, and civil protection.
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In general, using the operative definition of Johns Hopkins University (Salamon and Anheier 1997), which excludes the calculation of churches, trade unions and political parties, business and professional associations, professional sports associations, local neighborhood communities, business and philanthropic foundations, and healthcare entities.
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Llopis-Goig, R., García-Alcober, M.P. (2018). Spain. In: Hallmann, K., Fairley, S. (eds) Sports Volunteers Around the Globe. Sports Economics, Management and Policy, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02354-6_21
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