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On November 15th CNCS released to the public the 2015 Volunteering and Civic Life in America (VCLA) data. This year’s report found that 62.6 million adults (24.9 percent) volunteered through an organization last year. Altogether, Americans volunteered nearly 7.8 billion hours in 2015, worth an estimated $184 billion, based on the Independent Sector’s estimate of the average value of a volunteer hour. The volunteer rate consistently remains stable and strong. Over the past 14 years, Americans have volunteered 113 billion hours, service worth an estimated $2.3 trillion.
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In addition, more than 138 million Americans (62.5 percent)
also engaged in informal volunteering in their communities, helping neighbors
with such tasks as watching each other’s children, helping with shopping, or
house sitting. In the map above, the darker the color, the higher overall rate of volunteer and civic engagement.
With the release of the VCLA, CNCS also launched its new
public data-sharing platform – CNCS
Open Data. Users will not only be able to download data in useable formats
like Excel, JSON and XML, but will also be able to use mapping and
visualization tools right in the platform! Stay tuned as we add more and more
datasets in 2017.
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 This course explains the purpose of an evaluation plan and outlines the key sections of the plan and what should be included in each section. Here’s the link to the location on the Planning page, under the “Writing an Evaluation Plan”
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