National Center for Voluntary Action

[1][2] The organization had its origins in 1969, the first year of the Nixon administration, when the Cabinet Committee on Voluntary Action was put into place.

Led by United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development George W. Romney,[3] a study performed by this committee found a need for a national, non-governmental organization.

[7] Lenore Romney, George's wife, became a director of the organization, and a member of its executive committee by 1971,[9] and vice president by 1973.

[1] In 1973, as he left the Nixon administration, George Romney became chair and CEO of the National Center for Voluntary Action.

[1] In 1976, the organization sponsored a national Congress on Volunteerism and Citizenship in conjunction with the United States Bicentennial of that year.