volunteers

“I've never seen emergency child care where somebody just shows up at your front door and helps you with no questions asked,” said Silke Knebel, founder of the National Childcare Emergency Network.

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

When COVID hit, the volunteers on that many nonprofits depended upon disappeared.

Why one 86-year-old started volunteering in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

The campaign ground game is cheap, but tough. Candidates skip it at their peril.