The female volunteer sector was strongly influenced by the traditional image of women as serving in social volunteer roles. There was a lack of representations of independent, prophetic, and strong women. Today, engagement offers young women their own spaces for experimentation and design. Skills such as a sense of responsibility, independence, teamwork, and action-oriented abilities are key competencies for their own biographies, but are also of great importance for the organizations in the church and society. Ursula Schell therefore develops approaches on the symbolic, biographical, and institutional levels for how the personnel development of full-time staff, the leadership development of volunteers, and organizational development can be shaped.