Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2015
Abstract
"In 2013, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) initiated a national evaluation of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). The national evaluation was intended to collect the necessary information to better guide the RSVP program and to address three objectives: 1) describe the characteristics of RSVP volunteers, including how volunteers are distributed across CNCS’s performance measure categories, and how volunteers allocated their time to different service activities across the performance measure categories; 2) measure the relationship between volunteer characteristics, service activities, and volunteers’ psychosocial health; and 3) measure the impact of RSVP national service participation on volunteers’ psychosocial health compared to similar adult volunteers and non-volunteers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)...
The current report focuses on the first objective, which is to describe the characteristics of RSVP volunteers, including how volunteers are distributed across CNCS’s performance measure categories, and how volunteers allocated their time to the service activities across the performance measure categories."
Recommended Citation
Georges, A., Gabbard, S., & Kranjac, A.W. (2015). First Report of the National Evaluation of RSVP Volunteers. North Bethesda, MD: JBS International, Inc.
Copyright
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Comments
This study was conducted by researchers from JBS International in Burlingame, CA, pursuant to a contract between the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency of the United States Government, and JBS International.