SERVICE IN SOCIETY

Day 1 A Society that Gives

DO WE SERVE?

Is America a Society of Servants?

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STATISTICS SHOW
The

volunteer rate tends to be higher in

teen years than in early adulthood
In the mid- to late twenties, volunteering
rates begin to pick up again, growing until
they reach a peak around the time of middle
age.
After middle age, volunteering rates begin to
drop as age increases.

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STATISTICS SHOW
Only

63.5 percent of the volunteers who

served in 2009 returned to service again in
2010
Research shows that strategies aimed at
enriching the volunteer experience
recognition, training and professional
development opportunities, and matching
volunteers skills to their service tasksall
influence greater volunteer retention.
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HOW ABOUT YOU

How

many of you serve regularly in an

official, volunteer capacity?
Discuss those opportunities in a group

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WHERE WE VOLUNTEER
Working

with youth through mentoring (17.0 %)

Tutoring and teaching (18.5 %)
Participated in fundraising activities or sold items to
raise money for an organization (26.5 %)
Collected, prepared, distributed, or served food
(23.5 %)
General labor or providing transportation (20.3 %)

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WHERE WE VOLUNTEER
% of Volunteers by Area
19%

16%

17%
Youth/Mentor

22%

Tutor/Teach
Fundraising

25%
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Collect/Serve Food
Labor/Transp.

WHERE WE
VOLUNTEER
% of Volunteers by Area
19%

16%

Who has
experience
volunteering in
one of the areas?

17%
Youth/Mentor

22%

Tutor/Teach
Fundraising

25%
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Collect/Serve Food
Labor/Transp.

WHERE WE
VOLUNTEER

In what area
would you
volunteer?

% of Volunteers by Area
19%

16%

17%

22%

25%
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Youth/Mentor
Tutor/Teach
Fundraising
Collect/Serve
Food
Labor/Transp.