Student volunteers prove pivotal to Sacramento-area nonprofits - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee: "A major side effect, it turns out, is what the requirement has given to local nonprofits.
'It's a whole volunteer force, or work force, that wasn't there before,' said Christine Wallace, community resource coordinator at the Volunteer Center of Sacramento."
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
Friday, April 17, 2009
'Civic generation' rolls up sleeves in record numbers - USATODAY.com
'Civic generation' rolls up sleeves in record numbers - USATODAY.com: "Young adults who grew up in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks and saw the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina are volunteering at home and abroad in record numbers. The generation that learned in school to serve as well as to read and write, the Millennials were the first global Internet explorers even as they pioneered social networking for favorite causes at home."
Monday, July 16, 2007
Mandated volunteerism - Yahoo! News
Mandated volunteerism - Yahoo! News: "Welcome to the newest rat race, the race for community service hours. Ask students walking for a 'cure' or tutoring underprivileged children why they are there and they'll tell you, 'I need the hours.' Schools, particularly private schools, have taken it on themselves to legislate the good deeds of our children and by inference, we parents as well. I no longer have the time to discuss my own family's religious and moral duties with my children – we're all too busy racing from project to project putting in required hours."
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