Sentence examples for volunteer generation from inspiring English sources
The volunteer generation has come to adulthood.
In August of this year, the corporation announced the first round of Volunteer Generation Fund grants.
But it also eliminated two programs that CNCS administers, the Volunteer Generation Fund and the Nonprofit Capacity Building Program.
As such, the FY 2013 budget request does not include funding for the Volunteer Generation Fund and the Nonprofit Capacity Building Program".
The Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF) was designed to make volunteering a vital part of achieving healthy communities through competitive grants to state service commissions and nonprofits.
Wendy Spencer is the CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that engages more than 5 million Americans in service through its AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, Social Innovation Fund, and Volunteer Generation Fund programs.
Where civil rights activists fought racial segregation of schools with sit-ins and non-violent protests, students today address educational inequality by volunteering with Generation Citizen or City Year.
Meanwhile, along with the EduCare teachers, the middle- to older-age paid female volunteers ("three-generation harmony teachers") were placed in EduCare kindergartens through cooperative networks among the volunteers (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, 2008a).
Despite this, recent research shows that young people are more engaged in social issues, drink less and are more likely to volunteer than previous generations.
The crunch is hardest, pensioners readily volunteer, for younger generations who grew up on cheap, seemingly limitless credit, with the impression that Spain's and Portugal's comparatively low wages (Portugal's minimum wage is less than €500, or £438, a month) did not necessarily mean an obstacle to smart cars or spanking new villas.
They included students majoring in French literature, Russian history and political science; a Harvard philosophy student who said he came "on a lark because I had never seen this part of the world"; and Hillary Smith-Wikle, a third-generation volunteer whose professor at Troy University in Alabama and his professor had dug at Ashkelon.
