This booklet has been prepared to aid communities that wish to start Voluntary Action Centers. It is a digest of experience to date. The 10 questions answered in the booklet are as follows: (1) What is a Voluntary Action Center?; (2) What does a Voluntary Action Center do?; (3) Who can start a Voluntary Action Center?; (4) What is the usual process for starting a Voluntary Action Center?; (5) What is the relationship of the local center to other voluntary and volunteer-using agencies in the community? . . . and to local government?; (6) Who decides what the program of the local Voluntary Action Center will be?; (7) What is the operating structure of a Voluntary Action Center?; (8) What are the expenses involved in running a Voluntary Action Center?; (9) Does the National Center for Voluntary Action fund the local Centers?; and (10) What does the National Center do for the local centers? Brief descriptions of how Voluntary Action Centers have been started in Albany, N.Y., Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hartford, Connecticut, New York City, and Staunton, Virginia are available upon request to the National Center for Voluntary Action, 1735 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006; the names and addresses of Directors of Voluntary Action Centers in various areas are available from the same source. (Author/DB)