Quick Facts About Volunteers Of America 

• Volunteers of America was founded by Ballington and Maud Booth on March 8, 1896.
  
  
• Nationwide, we currently employ over 14,000 professionals and more than 70,000 volunteers.
  
  
• Volunteers of America serves nearly 1.8 million people a year.
  
  
• Volunteers of America is one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive charitable nonprofit human services organizations.
  
  
• In rural areas and inner-city neighborhoods, Volunteers of America provides efficient, well-managed services that deal with some of today’s most pressing social needs.
  
  
• Volunteers of America is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit providers of quality, affordable housing for the underprivileged, the elderly and the disabled.
  
  
• Total revenues for fiscal year 2003 were $711 million—more than 88 cents of every dollar spent went directly to services for individuals, families and communities.

• Volunteers of America began services in Minneapolis in 1896.

Coon Rapids Senior Services: Mission: Coon Rapids Senior Services will provide services, activities, and information and referall to older adults, their families and caregivers in a cost effective manner that will recagnize the unique needs of older adults.

The Vision: Coon Rapids Senior Services will stive to be the best community resource for older adults, as families and caregivers.