{"id":2826,"date":"2023-02-04T21:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T02:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:44","slug":"volunteerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/volunteerism\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteerism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I dug into volunteerism in the US to frame a reflection on service learning. The most current data I Ianded on comes from <a href=\"file:\/\/\/Users\/jennifermaddrell\/Zotero\/storage\/MXL2XIGJ\/volunteering-civic-life.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"file:\/\/\/Users\/jennifermaddrell\/Zotero\/storage\/MXL2XIGJ\/volunteering-civic-life.html\">AmeriCorp<\/a>. Here are the highlights from  the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americorps.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/volunteering-civic-life-america-research-summary.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.americorps.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/document\/volunteering-civic-life-america-research-summary.pdf\">Volunteering and Civic Life in America Research Summary<\/a> from September 2020- September 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Formal Volunteering: An estimated\u00a0<strong>23.2<\/strong>% of Americans (<strong>60.7 million)<\/strong> volunteered with organizations serving an estimated\u00a0<strong>4.1 billion hours<\/strong>\u00a0with an\u00a0<strong>economic value of $122.9 billion<\/strong>, down about 7 percentage points from before the pandemic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Informal Helping: Americans informally helping others remained stable between 2019 and 2021 at around\u00a0<strong>51<\/strong>%\u00a0(<strong>124.7 million)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feature Image Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@rekamdanmainkan?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">ray sangga kusuma<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/7uSrOyY1U0I?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/Cns0h4ypRyA\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/A4Ax1ApccfA\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@rekamdanmainkan\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dug into volunteerism in the US to frame a reflection on service learning. The most current data I Ianded on comes from AmeriCorp. Here are the highlights from the Volunteering and Civic Life in America Research Summary from September 2020- September 21 Feature Image Photo by\u00a0ray sangga kusuma\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-service-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}