Gadi Hernandez-Corado, a student at UNLV, posing in a library at the university in Las Vegas recently. She volunteers at an elementary school.
Every day, Americans donate their time, skills and energy to their communities by volunteering with nonprofit organisations. The Associated Press interviewed five volunteers about what motivated them to get involved and why they think more people don’t give their time.
Recently released data from the US Census and AmeriCorps showed that volunteer participation fell 7 percentage points between 2019 and 2021, part of a long trend in declining volunteerism.
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