"Private versus Public - A Danish experience in the European Year of Volunteering"

1. Private versus Public A Danish experience in the European Year of Volunteering DanChurchSocial (Kirkens Korshær), Oslo 2011

2. Private versus Public 50 % to do voluntary work in 2020 Voluntary effort must be part of everyday life Financial support to social entrepreneurship Improve co-operation between the public sector and NGO’s in the social sector The Danish government’s strategy for the civil society, Ministry for Social Affairs, 2010)

3. Private versus Public Social cuts and growth in administrative costs at the expense of caregivers, educators and others has led to a service degradation in the social sector

4. Staff, guests and supporters of DanChurchSocial have taken to the streets to demonstrate against social cuts. Local media and advocacy campaigns have been necessary

5. Private versus Public To maintain the Scandinavian welfare model citizens have to take more responsibility and works as volunteers KnudAarup. Director of Social Services in Randers (quote from Korshæren)

6. Private versus Public We can easily set limits. This is not my concern. But I am concerned that local authorities should put up control systems so that it becomes a duty. Susanne Larsen, President of the Danish Red Cross and the Voluntary Council in Denmark (quote from “Korshæren”)

7. Private versus Public For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16.26)