Grant actually owned one slave himself as well: Grant himself owned a slave named William Jones, acquired from his father-in-law. At a time when he could have desperately used the money from the sale of Jones, Grant signed a document that gave him his freedom. Grant freed this slave in 1859.
Volunteers dedicated more than 100 hours, on average, to sports and recreation (120 hours), religion (117 hours) and social services (116 hours). But they gave only about half as many hours to education and research associations (66 hours) and to health-related organizations (58 hours) (Chart 3).
Donât take our word for it, though â recent research backs up the growing trend towards generous VTO policies. According to the â2013 Employee Benefitsâ report by Society for Human Resource Management, 20% of companies offer volunteer time off to their employees. This is a pretty big increase from 15% in 2009.