Statistics on Minnesota Volunteerism

Each week I receive Session Weekly a publication of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

A feature of the current issue was a consideration of Minnesota's quality of life. Volunteerism is alive and well in Minnesota: volunteers contributed 169.7 million hours in public service in 2008. In 2008 36.9 % of Minnesotans aged 16 and older performed volunteer services. The national percentage? 26.4 %.