Making Volunteering More Popular By Making It More Relevant | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Making Volunteering More Popular By Making It More Relevant | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation: Service is a fundamental pillar of American society, and its roots go back to the origins of the nation. In the mid-1800’s Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans help each other in times of need and wrote, "I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare, and I have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another."