Volunteers Fail to Return to Many Charities, a New Study Finds

Charities need to do a better job keeping their volunteers engaged and loyal, say the authors of a new report released by the federal government. The report, from the Corporation for National & Community Service, says that more than one out of every three people who volunteered in 2006 did not do so again in 2007.

"It is a growing problem," says Robert Grimm Jr., the Corporation for National and Community Service's director of research and policy development.

"There's a

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