National Volunteer Week is April 27 - May 3

National Volunteer Week is about inspiring and encouraging people to seek ways to engage in their community. It’s about showing the nation how to meet challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, in which everyone works together. During National Volunteer Week individuals and communities can be at the center of social change as they discover their power to make a difference.

President Richard Nixon signed an executive order in 1974 establishing National Volunteer Week as an annual celebration of volunteerism. Every year since that time, each U.S. president, along with many governors, mayors and other elected officials, has signed a proclamation promoting the week.

National Volunteer Week is our time to not only recognize and celebrate volunteers, but also to encourage more of them to share ideas, practices and stories, and to shape a movement that re-imagines the notion of citizenship for the 21st century.

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