National Volunteer Week Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:02:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg National Volunteer Week Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Volunteering In Canada Worth More Than $50-Billion https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/04/23/1-volunteering-in-canada-worth-more-than-50-billion/ Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:02:52 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=10113 In Canada, more than 13.3 million people volunteer. That means that on their own time, and without being paid, they work on a project to help others in some way.

This week (April 21 to 27) is National Volunteer Week in Canada, according to an organization called Volunteer Canada.

In a recent report, two economists* have put a dollar figure on all of that volunteering.

Volunteering creates $50-billion in economic value every year for Canadians, Craig Alexander and Sonya Gulati, economists with the TD Bank, say in a report.

They call volunteering “the life-blood that keeps (many organizations) running.”

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