Voluntariness which has been perceived as social cooperation andsolidarity at first has transcended that perception today. In the 21stcentury, voluntariness is contributing a lot to humanitarian progressand sustainable development as well as community development.Therefore, firstly a commonly accepted definition of voluntariness isrequired in order to completely benefit from the advantages provided bythe notion of voluntariness. It is possible to make various definitions ofvoluntariness depending on countries, societies, people, institutions,and organizations. However, the term humanitarianism which underliesvoluntariness is not to be ignored in the definitions. According to theMinistry of Family and Social Policies, the term voluntariness is definedas a person’s support to a social endeavor or activities of a nongovernmentalorganization without being paid in order to increase thestandard of living of the people excluding inner circle and reach a goalconsidered as benefit of society. Hereafter the term voluntariness is thecenter of sustainable development and social welfare systems inaddition to community and humanitarian development. Voluntariness is contributing to these development processes as well as beinginfluenced by them. While the term development was defined only interms of economy at first, today’s definition includes both economic andsocial development. Accordingly, community development is consideredin terms of social development. Hence, while defining communitydevelopment a set of variables have to be taken into consideration.According to United Nations, community development is a process inwhich various groups and state works collectively. In other words,community development is a process in which endeavors of smallcommunities aiming to improve their social and cultural conditions andendeavors of the state are combined in order to merge smallcommunities fully and contribute to their national developmentendeavors (Geray, 1991:101-104). For community developmentaforementioned local communities’ voluntary endeavors should besupported by state. Therefore, community development could be definedas a two dimensional notion; one is based on society and the other is onstate. In that notion state is a system with its own dynamics and at onepoint without society’s support and participation this system could run.The society is a set of relations having its own system but requiresstate’s support to be able to develop.In Turkey, between the years 1990 and 2000 a new systememerged as a result of the neo-liberal politics and new servicesparticularly for children, the young, the poor, the disabled, women, andfamilies were required. In that period all the official reliefs wereprovided by Turkish Social Service and Children Protection Institution(TSSCPI) founded in 1983. However, some of the deficiencies inapplications led the idea of conducting relief operations in social andpublic spheres under the control of a ministry. Accordingly, on June8th 2011 Turkish Social Service and Children Protection Institutionwere replaced with Ministry of Family and Social Policies. Since theministry was founded it has conducted various national projects onsocial problems. “The Voluntary Ambassadors Project on CommunityDevelopment” was launched by the Ministry 2012 is one of thoseprojects. For this project launched in December in 2012, the Ministryprepared a two-year action plan. The first year of the action plan wason children issues while the second year was focused on women issues.Yet, at the beginning of the year 2015 the Project is predicted to becontinued for a while.This projects aims to raise awareness and popularity ofvoluntariness in society, and strengthen human resource which canhelp contribute community development. The Project has five differenttitles as follow: Child (Foster family service), Empowering Women (Inservicetraining for women), Qualified Aging, Rapport betweenGenerations, Access to Services for Disabled People, and Family andPoverty. However, today Child (Foster family service) has become themost popular title because of the cultural, politic, and executivevariables. In the project, Voluntary Ambassador is defined as a personwho is voluntary in his/her free will and without expecting any paymentuses all of his/her experience, abilities and resources in order to raisethe living standards of disadvantageous groups particularly women,children, the old, the disabled, families of martyrizes and veterans andothers (the poor in cities, drug addicts, etc.), and contributes the official services and endeavors of the Ministry of Family and Social Policies(www.gonulelcileri.gov.tr).Since the beginning of the project many executives, politiciansand celebrities have been involved in the organizations. Theirparticipation is significant in terms of the project’s recognition in thepublic. Moreover, this project has contributed to raise awareness for theperception of voluntariness in Turkey and popularity of the voluntaryactivities. The concept of voluntariness in Turkey has improvedparticularly in the last 15 years with by the increase of participation inall areas. On the other hand in the past the participation rate of thevoluntary activities was not the same. After the 1980’s coup d’etat, 1982Constitution ceased the non-governmental organizations’ activities untilthe 1990s. Particularly in 1995 amendment of 33rd law in 1982constitution enabled the increase of non-governmental organization’sactivities. The number of non-governmental organizations was 6000 atthe beginning of 1980s and this number reached 26.000 at thebeginning of the 1990s. In 1999 the number of non-governmentalorganizations increased by 235% and reached 60.000. While Marmaraearthquake killed thousands of citizens, this disaster helped createawareness of volunta