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What Volunteering Is Worth: What the 2023 Data Tells Us About the Economic Value of Volunteering in Canada 

Based on Statistics Canada’s Satellite Account of Non-Profit Institutions and Volunteering, Table 36-10-0618-01, released March 30, 2026  Volunteering is often described in terms of hours given, services delivered, and communities supported. All of those framings are accurate, but they leave out something that matters for advocacy, for planning, and for making the case to funders and governments: volunteering […]