WELCOME March 20, 2000 Issue

To Our Readers

Russ Gerber

THERE'S GOOD NEWS to report. Charitableness is alive and well and on the rise. A survey from last year shows that 56 percent of adults in the US volunteered a total of 19.9 billion hours of their time in 1998. That's up from a decade ago. Assign an average hourly wage to that number and you have a value of nearly $226 billion worth of time spent volunteering.

People are giving voice to their charitableness through a broad range of venues: halfway houses, day-care centers, neighborhood parks, Meals on Wheels, prisons, shelters for battered women and children, retirement centers, as well as libraries, hospitals, and youth organizations.

Just what are these organizations looking for? Bring your heart and your sense of humor to your service, one of them tells prospective volunteers.

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