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More people are volunteering again after a big pandemic drop

by Samantha Fields

Dec 23, 2024

Nearly 76 million Americans volunteered in 2023, up from about 60 million in 2021, a survey from AmeriCorps and the Census Bureau says.

Hundreds of people lined up for an outdoor mobile food pantry hosted by City Harvest in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on a recent December morning.

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