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January 5, 2026

Call to service for nation's 250th

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission wants to turn America's 250th birthday celebration into the country's single biggest year for volunteering.

Known as America Gives, the program will have to revitalize a culture of service that has been waning. A December AP-NORC poll finds that just 28% of Americans say they volunteered time to a religious or secular charitable organization last year.


 
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