August 4, 2005
The Real Challenge for Volunteerism
The number of Americans who volunteer has increased each year since 2002. This multiple-year climb in civic engagement is extremely unusual -- traditionally, spikes of this kind fade after just a few months. Not since the attack on Pearl Harbor has the United States seen the kind of sustained increase in volunteering that has marked the years since the 2001 terrorist attacks.
People clearly are looking for ways to get involved, and are acting on that desire. They do so in myriad
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