Adi Talwar
Melissa Herrera in the lobby of her apartment building in Brooklyn. She's been volunteering from home with a phone bank since April.
COVID-19 prompted a huge surge in volunteering. It also posed a number of new challenges both for the volunteers and the organizations they serve.
‘Building on the great work these prevention services workers have done, why not surge the opening of new services to meet the expected demand?’
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