“I’ve never had so much fun doing so much good!” a lady said as she thanked me for providing an opportunity for her to volunteer. “I’ve had a lot of fun before, but I wasn’t necessarily being good. This is a blast!”
I have spent a great deal of my professional life working with volunteers. Whether its grabbing a buddy to replace windows on a widow’s house, organizing 125 people to build a house in a day, or empowering tens of thousands of volunteers to package meals for starving people, I am more passionate than ever to provide meaningful volunteer opportunities.
- Provides individuals with greater satisfaction and meaning in their lives
- Strengthens families and provides unique memory-makers
- Helps employees learn to work better as a team
- Unites a community around a cause
- Levels the socio-economic playing field as we learn to serve others
- Do good things that would go un-done unless volunteers did it
- Determine how much time are you willing to give
- Short-term
- Long-term
- Ask if there in any training required
- Make a list of skills can you offer
- Choose what professional skills you have that would be of most value
- Determine which of your hobbies or recreation ideas could be of use
- List your hobbies then look for ways to use them
- List your recreational activities and look for ways to use them
- Choose an organization that fits your passions and interests
- Let the organization know if you are interested in a leadership role
- Look for opportunities to share your knowledge
- Pass on your skills to people within the organization
- Pass on your knowledge to other volunteers
- Take as many people as you can with you
- Volunteering with others is much more enjoyable than doing it alone
- Tell everyone you can about your experience
- You’re not bragging about being a volunteer, you’re marketing for the organization
- Write a blog about it on your own blog, or see if the org would like to use your blog
- Tweet about it
- Take photos and add them to your Facebook or Pinterest
- Add it to your skills on Linkedin
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