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Chicago Cares is a nonprofit organization that connects prospective volunteers with volunteer opportunities throughout Chicago. [1] [2] [3] It was founded in 1991 by Leslie Bluhm and Mary Prchal. [4] In addition to connecting volunteers to service programs, Chicago Cares offers a training called Power of Service. [5]
AFS is one of the largest volunteer-based organizations of its kind in the world with more than 50,000 volunteers worldwide and more than 5,000 in the U.S. Tens of thousands of volunteers and a small staff make the AFS program happen worldwide. AFS volunteers are both young and old, busy professionals and retirees, and students and teachers.
In 1962, the practice changed to using university graduate volunteers. [6] By 1980, the unskilled volunteers had been completely phased out and the length of service had been extended to two years. [7] Active volunteer numbers initially dropped to about 750, but by 2003 had returned to about 1,400.
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Although the Employment Service is only one of 19 required partners in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) One-Stop delivery system, its central mission—to facilitate the match between individuals seeking work and employers seeking workers—makes it critical to the functioning of the workforce development system under WIOA. [2]
Literacy Volunteers of Illinois (LVI) was founded in 1979 to serve as a technical assistance and training agency for volunteer literacy programs affiliated with the national Literacy Volunteers of America organization. It initially served as a "mid-level" support system for local affiliated programs with the goal of monitoring and providing ...
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