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Jan. 30, 2023Jefferson City, Mo. |  By: Jeremy Werner

Volunteerism increase in the Show-Me state

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Volunteers are stepping up in the Show-Me state.

The Missouri Community Service Commission recently announced that AmeriCorps determined near one and a half million Missourians formally volunteered through an organization from September 2020 to September 2021.

These volunteer efforts made a three-point-one billion dollar impact on the state, establishing Missouri as 10th in the nation for formal volunteerism.

Additionally, more than two-point-four million residents informally helped their neighbors, despite the pandemic, according to research conducted by AmeriCorps and U.S. Census Bureau.

The most recent Volunteering and Civic Life in America research found over half of Americans informally helped their neighbors at least once in the past year.