Civilsamfundets mobilisering af frivillighed og hjælp under coronakrisen [Google Tanslate: Civil society mobilization of volunteering and assistance during the corona crisis]

The Corona pandemic has pushed the welfare state to the extreme and led to new needs for help and support for vulnerable groups: personal counseling and information, help with daily chores such as shopping and transportation, dealing with loneliness and anxiety, families where existing problems escalate during isolation, and many other needs that call for new solutions. To address these negative consequences, the welfare state is complemented by civil society, where solidarity and community spirit have led to an unprecedented mobilization. Civil society here takes over central welfare functions which it manages differently from the state's rights-based welfare. This development is crucial to be elucidated by research teams in order to be able to qualify the efforts during the crisis in the short term and to develop welfare in the longer term. This project examines the functioning of voluntary welfare in the form of voluntary social work, informal help, solidarity and community spirit. The aim is to create knowledge that can contribute to optimizing coordination between the efforts of public and civil society actors and to qualify the work of civil society actors in mitigating the negative consequences of the corona crisis for vulnerable groups. To this end, we combine 1) an extensive quantitative and qualitative mapping of help groups on Facebook, 2) a panel survey of a representative sample of the Danish population and 3) an online panel survey distributed in the more than 250 Facebook help groups.