Miami ranked 11th out of the 12 largest metro areas in formal volunteerism and dead last in 'informal helping,' which includes things like doing a favor for a neighbor.
The survey, conducted during the height of the pandemic between September 2020 and 2021, found that 14% of Miami metro residents volunteered through an organization and 36% helped a neighbor.
Compare that to the top-ranked metro areas in the study: 29% of residents in Philadelphia volunteered and 58% of residents in Boston said they helped a neighbor.and expanded it to include 88 U.S. metro areas: Miami came in third to last in informal helping, second to last in charitable giving and third to last in formal volunteering.
According to the Post analysis, Florida ranks dead last among all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in charitable giving, volunteering and organizational membership.Income, education level, citizenship and race play a role in civic engagement rankings, the Post reports. For example, the metro areas near the top of the rankings have a larger white, non-Hispanic population than Miami and the other lower scorers. They also have greater median incomes."It comes down to time, money and civic skills," Mike Hanmer, director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement at the University of Maryland, told the Post.
"And we know that those things are not evenly distributed throughout the population," he said. "Systematically, certain groups — particularly members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in our society — haven't had the same access and the same opportunities."
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