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VOLUNTEERING...ARE YOU IN THE PICTURE?!
All Volunteers and Agencies Start Here: It is so easy! Organizations and volunteers click here and follow the prompts to volunteer or list your organization. If you have any questions please contact the Volunteer Center at 983-0912 or 683-5464.
SAVE THE DATE! The National Volunteer Week Luncheon 2010 is Thursday, April 22nd.
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Opportunity that is Right for YOU!
Volunteering in America Research Highlights
What Stops People from Volunteering?
In 2008, the Corporation for National and Community Service investigated the attitudes of volunteers, non-volunteers, and former volunteers to get a better sense of why people do or do not volunteer.
Through targeted discussions in focus groups across the country, non-volunteers revealed the perceptions that have kept them from serving, and the things that might persuade them to serve:
• Non-volunteers see themselves as essentially different from volunteers. Non-volunteers tended to think of a volunteer as someone who was retired, without children in the home, and had an excess of leisure time. While these characteristics may be true for some volunteers, research shows that volunteers span a range of demographics including age, race, marital status,employment, and parenthood.
• Many non-volunteers fear the time commitment of service, expressing concerns that signing up for a volunteer activity would require that they continue indefinitely, even possibly for a lifetime.
• Non-volunteers say that they are more likely to serve if a trusted friend asks them to serve.
Some people are also more likely to serve if they are able to use a skill they already possess, and others are interested in learning something new. Interviewing potential volunteers to determine their interests in this regard can help ensure they get the experience they are looking for.
(adopted from the Corporation for National and Community Service, www.NATIONALSERVICE.GOV, 202-606-5000)
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