New study links U.S. decline in volunteering to economic conditions

Americans' Dismal Views of the Nation's Politics

Everyone who took part in these surveys is a member of the Center's American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited ...

Age and Cohort Trends in Formal Volunteering and Informal Helping ...

Despite having advantages in human and health capital, recent birth cohorts showed volunteering levels in late adulthood that are similar to ...

Giving and Volunteering - United Way of the Midlands

Charitable giving was especially strong in 2020 and 2021 as donors rallied to address increasing needs amid a global pandemic and economic crisis. But the ...

Key Volunteering Statistics

Status, proportion of persons' [data set], General Social Survey ... One in five people (20.8%) reported undertaking volunteering to learn new skills or gain work ...

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Volunteering in the U.S. is on the decline, reports say - NPR

Soup kitchens and homeless shelters are struggling to keep up with demand, even as volunteering is on the decline.

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A new report provides guidance to biomedical researchers on changing the way ... U.S. economy. Discover our projects and activities aimed at spurring ...

Volunteering in America - Joint Economic Committee

Any recent decline has been concentrated among non-Hispanic whites, who continue to have relatively high volunteer rates. Volunteering is more common in the ...

What's going on with volunteering trends? - Directory of Social Change

Both formal and informal volunteering are declining · Many charities are finding it hard to recruit volunteers · DSC has a wealth of volunteering ...

Giving Continues Its Decline, Down 2.1% in 2023. Can Fundraisers ...

Overall charitable giving dropped 2.1 percent in 2023 after inflation, according to the most recent “Giving USA” report.

Economic Value - Voices for National Service

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Nonprofits scramble for help amid dearth of volunteers - AP News

get volunteers. According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps survey, formal volunteer participation was 23.2%, a drop of 7 ...

Strengthening our Approach to Volunteering - Community Matters

12 Statistics New Zealand. 2018. General Social Survey 2016. 13 Ministry for Pacific Peoples. 2021. Pacific Economy Research Report. Page ...

Explaining the Varieties of Volunteering in Europe: A Capability ...

Individual economic capital is positively associated with volunteering. Economic capital constitutes another resource that influences the ...

Volunteerism and US Civil Society - Stanford Social Innovation Review

What's more, as the number of volunteers has decreased, the need for them has grown. The nonprofit sector, which relies heavily on volunteers as ...

Volunteering - jstor

Although developed somewhat independently, the study of volunteerism and of social activism have much in common. Since data gathering on volunteering from ...

Volunteer opportunities

See these links below for some of our citizen science programs or search the CitizenScience.gov opportunities catalog to find both national and local NOAA ...

UNV Annual Report 2022

That number dropped by 10 per cent from the 9,575 online volunteers who served in 2021. This decline may be attributed to the reduced availability of online ...

State of Homelessness: 2024 Edition - endhomelessness.org

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of homelessness and reveals rising trends, disparities based on race, ethnicity, and gender, ...

Identifying pathways to increased volunteering in older US adults

First, volunteers have a substantial impact on our economy. In 2018, approximately 22 million Baby Boomers volunteered 2.2 billion hours in the ...