Here to Help: The benefits of volunteering Do you volunteer or know someone who does? In a new series called "Here to Help," we are sharing stories of people across the U.S. who give back to the ...

Starting even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans had been volunteering less and less frequently. That is the finding of the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland. And, well, here at ...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starting even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans had been volunteering less and less frequently. That is the finding of the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland.

Starting even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans had been volunteering less and less frequently. That is the finding of the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland. And, well, here at ...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starting even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans had been volunteering less and less frequently. That is the finding of the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland.

Do you volunteer or know someone who does? In a new series called "Here to Help," we are sharing stories of people across the U.S. who give back to the community.

Starting even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans had been volunteering less and less frequently. That is the finding of the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland. And, well, here at ...

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starting even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans had been volunteering less and less frequently. That is the finding of the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starting even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans had been volunteering less and less frequently. That is the finding of the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland.

AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starting even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans had been volunteering less and less frequently. That is the finding of the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland.

DIETZ: Now, the particular type of volunteering that we have studied most of all many people call formal volunteering, which is volunteering that's done through or for an organization. CHANG: OK. So ...