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Volunteering in America

http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/

This website, from the federal Corporation for National and Community Service, offers the most comprehensive research on U.S. volunteering ever assembled. Research findings on the site include volunteer rates, economic impact, and information on “voluntourism” (long-distance volunteering), with breakdowns by state, region, and major city as well as national data. The site also includes links to volunteer opportunities, tools for volunteer recruitment and retention, and other recent government studies of volunteerism among college students and others.

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My own service-learning experience helped me to change my undergraduate major to social work. As a student worker with the program, I gained so many skills that helped me to be successful as a social worker and change agent after graduation. Now I help student workers develop these same skills and find the same passion for creating positive change that I have felt."

-Kim Jensen, Assistant Service-Learning Administrator, Marquette University