Retired and Senior Volunteer Program 2016 Dashboard Report
Retired and Senior Volunteer Program 2016 Dashboard Report
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program is a nationwide program which exists to match volunteers age 55 and older with volunteer positions that use their life experience and skills to meet community needs.
The program is funded by a federal grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service, as well as funding from the city, county, state and in-kind contributions from UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital.
RSVP currently has 341 active volunteers who served approximately 40,411 hours in 2016 *. The Independent Sector rates a volunteer hour at $ 20.93 an hour which means Dubuque County recognized a savings of more than $ 845,802.00 from RSVP volunteers’ work.
The average volunteer serves 137 hours per year.
The greatest number of volunteer hours served by one volunteer is 1688 hours in one year.
Average age of Volunteers
Volunteer Gender
* Due to the timing of this report and hours for November and December not yet being reported, this report is based on volunteer statistics from October 2015 to October 2016.