Economic Impact of Volunteers
The eight hundred seventy-seven (877)
organizations that responded to the questionnaire
regarding the contributions of
their volunteers reported a total of
19,062,664 hours for an estimated dollar
value of $414,678,410. Had these services
required payment an additional
$8,264,642,854 of income would have been
necessary. That represents an increase of
10.4 percent in needed personal income.
