Volunteering — corporate, local or otherwise — is the act of offering your services, time and skills to an organization, group, club or neighborhood. It can have an immediate impact on the recipient.

December’s announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that 4 million more people had volunteered in 2003 than in the previous year was encouraging news for the Bush administration. Starting with ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If you want to be happier and more successful, volunteering ...

Guest columnist Rebecca Meiser Brouman is the director of volunteers, community and program development at the National Council of Jewish Women/Cleveland. She sees the power of volunteering and spends ...

For most of my career, conversations about corporate volunteering have started with a version of the same sentence: “Our people want to do more, but we don’t have the time to manage it.” That tension ...

This post was co-written with Dr. Vivien Forner from the University of Sydney. There are over 862.4 million volunteers globally giving their time to a cause that matters to them. Volunteers are the ...

A guide at the Mennello Museum of American Art discusses a Bo Bartlett Painting. Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images If the approximately 1,000 active volunteers at the ...

Retirement is a huge transition, and it often brings questions about meaning and purpose for those going through it. The structured routine of life at least partly disappears, leaving many retirees ...