Ohio has seen a major drop.
Since 2020, it has hired someone to focus on recruiting volunteers, added in-person and virtual outreach events and options to complete the required 30-hour training, and printed information on fans to hand out in churches, Melynda Milburn Jamison, its executive director, said. She even visited a men’s-only barbecue to make a quick 10-minute pitch.
It's reached the point where the lack of volunteers strains the safety net that nonprofits provide to many of society's most vulnerable. Historically, volunteering has been strongest among college graduates, married people and people with children. However, many millennials and Gen Zers are delaying those traditional markers of adulthood, and even their peers who do reach these milestones are volunteering at lower rates, researchers at the University of Maryland found in a 2019 report.
“Even though we served just shy of 700 kids last year, that was less than 20% of the need here. So there’s a huge need,” Jamison said. “We typically get the worst of the worst cases.” “We need to stop thinking that we can do everything we used to do in the same way. So it’s a time for some pretty intensive change management,” she said.
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