EditorialVolunteers clean a telephone box as part of the "Big Help Out,” a day of volunteering to mark King Charles III's coronation, in central London, May 8, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers clean a telephone box as part of the "Big Help Out,” a day of volunteering to mark King Charles III's coronation, in central London, May 8, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers clean a telephone box as part of the "Big Help Out,” a day of volunteering to mark King Charles III's coronation, in central London, May 8, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers clean a telephone box as part of the "Big Help Out,” a day of volunteering to mark King Charles III's coronation, in central London, May 8, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers clean a telephone box as part of the "Big Help Out,” a day of volunteering to mark King Charles III's coronation, in central London, May 8, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers clean a telephone box as part of the "Big Help Out,” a day of volunteering to mark King Charles III's coronation, in central London, May 8, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers clean a telephone box as part of the "Big Help Out,” a day of volunteering to mark King Charles III's coronation, in central London, May 8, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers clean a telephone box as part of the "Big Help Out,” a day of volunteering to mark King Charles III's coronation, in central London, May 8, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers clean a telephone box as part of the "Big Help Out,” a day of volunteering to mark King Charles III's coronation, in central London, May 8, 2023. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialRivka Ben Avraham, left, a teacher and mother of 10, volunteering at the Warm Corner, a rest stop for soldiers near her settlement in the Etzion Bloc, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Nov. 7, 2022. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times)
EditorialSpecial constable and Patron of Care of Police Survivors Penny Lancaster proudly poses at her passing out parade with City of London Police - where she's joined by supportive husband Rod Stewart.
EditorialSpecial constable and Patron of Care of Police Survivors Penny Lancaster proudly poses at her passing out parade with City of London Police - where she's joined by supportive husband Rod Stewart
EditorialToys ready to be sent to families at the Volunteering and Defense Center on the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine, May 20, 2022. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)
EditorialThree generations of the Sandefur family gather for dinner, as they do a few times a week, in Chatham County, N.C., Feb. 24, 2022. (Kate Medley/The New York Times)
EditorialChiharu ?Charles? Nishikawa, who volunteered at the previous two Summer Games and advises the Olympic committee about volunteering, at a train station in Chiba, Japan, April 27, 2021. (Noriko Hayashi/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Joe Biden gets a hug from a young girl who was volunteering with her mother as he tours the Houston Food Bank in Houston on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialVice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks before volunteering during a National Day of Service at Martha’s Table in Washington on Monday Jan. 18, 2021. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)