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As we enter into the fourth month of this COVID-19 era, volunteer opportunities are fairly rare. While food banks are still operating, and can use support in the form of donated food or money, I thought I'd take this chance to point out some interesting things about volunteering.

Volunteering is thought to have been around human culture and society for a long time. Some of the earliest examples are during the Middle Ages in England. According to Christopher Hawthorne Moss of the Charity Channel LLC, "How old volunteering, or as it is coming to be widely called, voluntary action, is depend...