community; community sense; volunteering; prosocial values; happiness

The paper focuses on quite original and not very described subject of the relationship between volunteerism and community sense, whose support in Czech society carries great potential for development of functioning, humane-oriented civil society. First the paper depicts both concepts and capacity of volunteering utilization in development of the community sense. Next it emphasizes two promising ways of volunteering support that take into account the educational and developmental context. These are the development of prosocial values and positive shaping of youth happiness. As the present findings indicate, the individual happiness impacts both the individual's prosocial orientation and a willingness to volunteer that is enhanced also by prosocial values.