When do volunteers want to volunteer?
Howard Lake | 21 February 2001 | News
American online volunteering site Volunteermatch has shared some statistics with its e-mail newsletter subscribers on how frequently Americans choose to volunteer.
American online volunteering site Volunteermatch has shared some statistics with its e-mail newsletter subscribers on how frequently Americans choose to volunteer.
Quoting from Independent Sector’s Giving and Volunteering in the United States, 1999, Volunteermatch reports that “Of those who volunteer, 41% pursued intermittent, one-time opportunities while 39% of volunteers preferred to serve at a regularly scheduled time (i.e., weekly, monthly, etc.). A mere 9% reported a preference for volunteering only seasonally (e.g., during Christmas or Hannukah).
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.