# USA: volunteering more popular than voting

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/10/27/usa-volunteering-more-popular-voting/
- Published: 2000-10-27T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A Harvard University study reports more young people prefer to volunteer locally
than to vote. The study, reported by VolunteerMatch’s October Volunteer Newsletter,
found that “85% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 preferred volunteering in
their communities to voting for political candidates.”

VolunteerMatch concluded that “this report states that young people feel they are
making a greater difference in their community by volunteering than by voting.”

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