Well the rest of a world is in a recession, volunteering is growing. The Corporation for National Service just released a new study showing about a quarter of all Americans volunteer. The increase in volunteerism is actually quite small (about a million people) and while that seems surprising to me, my gut is that during this recession, people may not count helping their neighbor as volunteering as much as they count the hours where they volunteer directly for a nonprofit sitting on a board or writing fundraising notes!
Also of interest is that much of the growth in volunteer hours is with young adults – and that’s really good news for our future. To peruse the data go to http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/index.cfm
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