The Economist on the rise of volunteering in the US:
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- "Non-profit organisations now have 9.4m employees and 4.7m full-time volunteers nationwide. They make up 11% of the American workforce, more than the car and financial industries combined."
- "Corporate America, too, is joining in. Companies such as Timberland and PricewaterhouseCoopers allow employees time off for public service. Others, like Target, are going into partnership with non-profit groups to provide pro bono marketing and financial advice."
- "Thousands of lawyers have been laid off in recent months [...] But some law firms are encouraging the underemployed or deferred to do pro bono legal work for a public-interest group for a time. Some are paid monthly stipends or are offered a portion, often a third, of their salary"
- Congress will "devote $5.7 billion over five years to expanding or creating national-service programmes, including tripling the size of AmeriCorps from 75,000 positions to 250,000."
In the UK IT professionals can volunteer their time to help charities at iT4Communities, a service that Spiral Arm have helped enhance and which we also host.
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