{"id":142900,"date":"2026-01-29T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142900"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:51:17","slug":"gallup-volunteerism-in-the-usa-has-recovered-from-pandemic-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142900","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Volunteerism in the USA Has Recovered From Pandemic Low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Majorities of Americans continue to support charitable causes, with 76% reporting that they gave money to a religious or other nonprofit organization in the past year and 63% saying they volunteered their time to such an organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans\u2019 current levels of charitable activities are somewhat different from what they were in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial contributions have eased slightly, registering five percentage points lower than in 2021, but volunteering is seven points higher now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a steady 17% of U.S. adults say they gave blood in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/701204\/volunteerism-recovered-pandemic-low.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Americans continue to support charitable causes with 76% saying they gave money to nonprofits in the past year and 63% saying they volunteered their time to nonprofits. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a5vdAcC1YS\">https:\/\/t.co\/a5vdAcC1YS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a8na0r5603\">pic.twitter.com\/a8na0r5603<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Grace Platon (@GracePlaton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GracePlaton\/status\/2016151727662072028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majorities of Americans continue to support charitable causes, with 76% reporting that they gave money to a religious or other nonprofit organization in the past year and 63% saying they volunteered their time to such an organization. Americans\u2019 current levels<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142900\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,135,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142904,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142900\/revisions\/142904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}