Study On The Reasons For Development Of The United States Volunteer Service

Volunteerism is the result of western ancient religious thought, Western religion produced the philanthropic and accommodating behavior on the basis of “original sin”and “salvation”,which laid out the profound cultural and ideological basis to the development of voluntary service.The United States,as a Christian nation,also influenced by the belief of "love your neighbor as yourself" charity,has now become one of the most developed countries on volunteer service in the world.While,in addition to the historical origin,the reason is inseparable with the efforts of the government,the social support from all walks of life and positive participating from populace,As a result, the pattern as well as a variety of specific practices of the development of voluntary service in the United States,also gradually become the object of learning and imitating by other countries.This Essay analyzes the motivation of the development of volunteer service in the United States,after a simple combing related concepts and analysis the volunteer service development present situation in America in modern times,From three angles to seek the deep-seated reasons for the development of volunteer service,including the ideological motivation,material foundation and The legal guarantee of policy in American,First of all, this essay, from a view of religion and history analyses the transmission carrier of volunteerism play a important role on the development of the volunteer service.Secondly, from three aspects profoundly analyzes the importance of the material foundation for the United States volunteer service development.the government,foundations,enterprises and private donations included.Then it analyzes that the voluntary service development cannot do without the security of the legal policy,Including governments’ correlative legislation for volunteer service organization operation mechanism,protection of the rights and interests of the volunteers,as well as the policy support from enterprises, colleges and universities in the United States for the development of voluntary service.Finally, combining with the influence of volunteer services in the United States to the social development of American,it put forward the reference value for the development of voluntary service in China.