Fiscal year 2007 showed significant gains in key measures of volunteer participation:
• The pool of highly skilled American profes¬sionals available through VfP partners grew impressively from nearly 285,000 in FY 2006 to more than 355,000 in FY 2007.
• During FY 2007, VfP partners reported deploying more than 34,000 volunteers, over 60 percent more than the FY 2006 total of 21,000.
• Between FY 2006 and FY 2007, the number of volunteer opportunities reported by VfP partners rose from just over 30,000 to more than 34,000.
• The number of VfP partners for FY 2007 increasedmore than 10 percent over FY 2006, to 244.
Finally, grants to VfP partners during FY 2007 totaled $44 million, an increase of nearly 160 percent over the FY 2006 total of $17 million.
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