Volunteering
61 Million Strong;
Need and Momentum Grow
The most comprehensive research on U.S. volunteering ever
assembled shows volunteering in America is strong and poised
for growth, as momentum for service grows across the sectors
and the need for volunteers is heightened by the economic
downturn.
Nearly 61 million Americans volunteered in their communities
in 2007 giving 8.1 billion hours of service worth more than
$158 billion to America’s communities, according to the
Volunteering in America report released on July 28th by the
Corporation for National and Community Service. >
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National
Service Battles Midwestern Floods
As the most severe flooding in 15 years hits the Midwest,
hundreds of AmeriCorps, Senior Corps and Learn and Serve
America participants are working alongside tens of thousands
of volunteers in battling the raging floodwaters, piling
sandbags, running shelters and hotlines, and assisting
evacuees. >
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Read how Ben Fritz learned There Are No Mistakes as he gives an account of his experience serving with AmeriCorps*NCCC in Anniston, Alabama. His living quarters...a barn which he shared with 14 people. His assignment...to help coordinate the local Habitat for Humanity chapter's Collegiate Challenge supervising 50 college students and helping to build with absolutely no clue of how to do any of it. Read More
