{"id":494597,"date":"2026-01-05T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494597\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:00:10","slug":"scottsdale-volunteers-contribute-more-than-4-3-million-in-service-value-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494597\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottsdale volunteers contribute more than $4.3 million in service value in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottsdale residents volunteered thousands of hours of service across city programs and departments.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 4,695 volunteers donated a combined 129,109 hours of service to Scottsdale, according to a press release from the City of Scottsdale.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Independent Sector\u2019s established value of volunteer time for Arizona \u2014 $33.70 per hour \u2014 those efforts represent more than $4.3 million in community value. That is equivalent to the work of 62 full-time employees.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Adopt-a-Road program had the largest volunteer participation in 2025, engaging 1,930 volunteers. The program supports community pride by keeping Scottsdale\u2019s streets and roadways free of litter.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottsdale Food Bank and the Scottsdale Public Library system, among other programs, also received considerable volunteer help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"in-story-ad\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottsdale residents volunteered thousands of hours of service across city programs and departments. Last year, 4,695 volunteers donated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,202761,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,38983],"class_list":{"0":"post-494597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-city-of-scottsdale","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-volunteers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115843801156524626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}