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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I’m involved in several youth activities, and have significant volunteer fall off post COVID.

I think pp is right: families are prioritizing their time differently after returning to the office. They want their kids to do sports and scouts and community theater and PTA enrichment activities, but they don’t have the volunteer hours to commit to it.

This leads to incredible burnout among the parents who ARE volunteering, so we lose them too.

OP’s point about not seeing the previous “generation” of parent volunteers is interesting too, but I’m seeing it for parents of kids both older and younger than my kids (who were in K/2nd when COVID hit).[/quote]

ITA that Covid has removed incentive to volunteer and I also agree that the return-to-office has an impact. Sports practice times seemed to move earlier during Covid and now that people are back in the office they can't make those early times. Meanwhile organizations haven't adjusted to accomodate WOH volunteers.

I also think there's been a generational shift where people, starting around the Elder Millennials, don't really [i]want[/i] to volunteer. See the whole Venmo Mom thing that was discussed here a month or so ago. Our church started talking about this probably a decade ago - moms and dads have possibly less time and definitely different priorities than they did 15-20 years ago and there's just fewer volunteers. How do you arrange activities under these circumstances? I don't think most organizations have solved this. As the older generation of volunteers starts "retiring" from their roles, there are fewer and fewer people to take over.[/quote]

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