100 hours, on average, to sports and recreation (120 hours), religion (117 hours) and social services (116 hours)
People who were required to volunteer generally worked the same average number of hours as other volunteers, 105 hours compared with 117 hours. Young people aged 15 to 24 were most likely to report doing required volunteering (13%); for over two-thirds of them (69%), it was mandated by their school. Your high school may require a set number but colleges do not. Instead you should focus on consistency and longevity in your volunteering. Two hours a week, every week for 3 years is much more impressive than 300 hours in the summer before senior year. By worrying about number of hours you have in volunteering you miss the point. This is not an exercise in adding up hours where the person with the most hours wins. 1 Altogether, 62.6 million Americans volunteered nearly 7.7 billion hours last year. 2  Based on the Independent Sector's estimate of the average value of a volunteer hour, the estimated value of this volunteer service is nearly $173 billion. 1 People who regularly participated in formal volunteering spent an average of 12.6 hours volunteering in the four weeks before the interview. 2  People who regularly took part in informal volunteering spent an average of 7.7 hours on these activities Dear RE: volunteer Expenses for (volunteer ’ s name and address) The above person is a volunteer with (organisation). They commenced volunteering with us on (date) and volunteer for an average of (number) hours per week. These individuals spent an average of 8.7 hours working or in work-related activities, 7.7 hours sleeping, 2.5 hours doing leisure and sports activities, and 1.3 hours caring for others, including children. The following charts provide a snapshot of how people use their time. Volunteers dedicated more than 100 hours, on average, to sports and recreation (120 hours), religion (117 hours) and social services (116 hours). But they gave only about half as many hours to education and research associations (66 hours) and to health-related organizations (58 hours) (Chart 3). 1 The OECD country with the highest average weekly working hours as of 2010 was Turkey, where people worked an average of 49.3 hours a week. 2  Although South Koreans used to work the most hours per year of any OECD citizens, the yearly working hours in South Korea declined by more than 60 hours from 2007 to 2008.
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