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Whether it is important to you to positively impact your community, advance a worthy cause, or to develop as a person, volunteering offers many benefits in return for the gift of time and expertise! Besides helping those less fortunate, benefits include:
• Making a difference in the community
• Building self-esteem and self-confidence
• Making important networking contacts
• Helping meet new people
• Feeling needed and valued
• Learning or developing skills
• Gaining work experience
• Improving health and reducing stress
Workplace volunteering is a planned effort that motivates and enables employees to contribute under the leadership of the employer. Volunteering can strengthen relationships among co-workers and build employee skills, as well as contribute to professional development. Workplace volunteering programs are known to:
• Strengthen employee morale and loyalty
• Improve employee recruitment and retention
• Develop employee skills
• Support company reputation
• Build relationships with coworkers in other departments
• Create volunteer partnerships between business, community service organizations and local communities
Volunteering can be a value passed from generation to generation by parents, extended family, and the community. It is evident that children want to be recognized for what they can give, and volunteering may provide them with an opportunity to build self-esteem and self-worth. Volunteering with your family has many benefits! It is fun, can strengthen families, can make family time valuable and can improve family communication!
Volunteering means something different to everyone, and is definitely worth the effort! Today, millions of people are impacting their communities by lending time, skills and compassion. Becoming a volunteer has been made easy since there are so many organizations that need help. Look around your community and in the phone book to see what programs are there. Call and ask if they need help. Visit city or town web-sites for listings of volunteer opportunities.
Check these out:
• Volunteer Match :www.volunteermatch.org
(415) 241-6868
• 1-800-Volunteer: www.1-800-volunteer.org
(800) 865-8682
• Volunteers of America: www.volunteersofamerica.org
(800) 899-0089
• Points of Light Foundation: www.pointsoflight.org
(202) 729-8000
• Network for Good: www.networkforgood.org
• United Way: www.unitedway.org (703) 836-7112
• Idealist: www.idealist.org (212) 843-3973
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