SERVEPhiladelphia Releases 3-Year Progress Report

The Mayor’s Office of Civic Engagement and Volunteer Services released a progress report on how the city engaged its own citizens through volunteering over the last three years.

The SERVEPhiladelphia 3-Year Progress Report outlines volunteering statistics in specific issue-areas, including community vitality, food security, education and youth engagement. Itwasww also includes a timeline of notable initiatives, both local and national, that the city has participated in since 2008.

Some key statistics:

• Philly Spring Clean Up has drawn 70,000 volunteers since 2008
• 110,000 individuals have visited SERVEPhiladelphia.com, launched in 2011, which lists general and skills-based volunteering opportunities.
• Between January and July 2013, over 100 youth completed court-mandated community service by working for city agencies
• SERVEPhiladelphia informed 10,476 households in 2013 about free summer meals through volunteers.