- More than 20,000 college students spent their spring break as volunteers.
- Lutheran Disaster Services volunteers rebuilt, repaired or cleaned 9,2220 homes.
- Mobile Episcopal Relief and Development served meals to 1,8000 a month.
In addition, in the first year after the hurricane, Catholic Charities received more than $160 million in donations and other funding which brought food, shelter and other necessities to more than one million people.
In the two years following Katrina, more than 1.1 million Americans volunteered to help with the rebuilding efforts.
The dollar value of a volunteer hour in 2007 was estimated to be $19.51. In 1980, that volunteer hour was $7.46.
- Little Burgundy Book, Diocese of Saginaw