Rose Tatum

Engaging with our Candidates quickly highlights their immense talent, intelligence, and resilience, qualities that simply needed a platform to be recognized. For volunteers, it's a powerful experience to see people for their true potential rather than their past, and to realize just how much we learn from one another.

Relationships are the key. It's not programs. It's meaningful relationships. - Bill Milliken, founder of Communities In Schools

Baby Boomers have long served as the backbone of formal volunteering in the United States. As they age into their late 70s and beyond, their capacity for sustained, structured volunteerism is diminishing. The generation positioned to replace them, Generation X, faces a retirement crisis of historic proportions, one that will keep millions of Gen Xers in the workforce far longer than previous generations.