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    11 August 2022 - Salt Lake City
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    JustServe by the Numbers

    In 2021, 2,500 new organizations registered with JustServe, which connects volunteers with organizations needing help

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    By Mary Richards, Church News


    JustServe is a website and app connecting volunteers with organizations looking for help. The groups include nonprofit, government, religious, community, educational and charitable organizations with needs to fill. In 2021, 2,500 new organizations registered with JustServe.

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    How JustServe has grown in the past 10 years with statistics from “Caring for Those in Need,” 2021 annual report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Graphic by Church News. Copyright 2022 Deseret News Publishing Company.

    Throughout 2021, Latter-day Saints and their neighbors spent countless hours volunteering through JustServe.org — engaging in community service and ministering in their own communities through projects large and small. Also, 62,000 new local community volunteers registered, and 21,500 new projects were created.

    Some of those projects covered by the Church News for 2021 included connecting with Syrian refugees, collecting stuffed animals for charity, organizing birthday supplies for foster children, buying new toys for kids in need, gathering winter clothing for homeless families, making Christmas ornaments for flood victims, cleaning up around communities, assembling meals, delivering valentines, tying quilts and a National Day of Service and Remembrance.
     

    Where


    For projects and volunteers, in differing stages in the following countries and territories: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina. Will soon be released in Chile.

    Projects in those countries could be providing service for people anywhere in the world.

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    Participants collected between 500 and 600 pounds of trash on the first interfaith trash pickup day around Portland, Oregon, on September 18, 2021. Here are members of the Aloha 1st Ward in the Beaverton Oregon West Stake with Bilal Masjid Mosque. Photo by Steve Rallison, courtesy of Church News. All rights reserved.

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