Newly Jobless Swell Volunteer Ranks at Charities
March 16, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Nonprofit organizations are seeing a tide of new volunteers from the ranks of recently laid-off white-collar workers, reports The New York Times.
A Web site called VolunteerNYC.org had 30 percent more visitors last month than in February 2008, and San Francisco’s Taproot Foundation, which places skilled professionals in volunteer positions, had more sign-ups on one recent day than in an entire month a year ago.
Some nonprofit officials say the flood of interest has been a mixed blessing as organizations that have cut back on projects amid declining grants and donations struggle to absorb and find work for the new arrivals.
See The Chronicle’s article on the wave of new volunteers.
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