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October 23, 2009
Get Involved in the Community!
Volunteer work, whether legal or non-legal, provides opportunities for exercising your abilities to take initiative, build leadership skills, improve the community, and serve others.
During your free time or on weekends, consider tutoring young children, organizing and conducting food drives, visiting and entertaining at nursing homes, and reading to children in hospitals.
These activities will help you to develop strong skills as a humanitarian and an individual. Simply put, people want to work with those who are involved, friendly, and understanding. Not to mention the networking benefits of volunteer work!
To get started check out www.volunteermatch.com! VolunteerMatch strengthens communities by making it easier for good people and good causes to connect. The organization offers a variety of online ervices to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement. This popular service welcomes millions of visitors a year and has become the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 65,000 nonprofit organizations.
And be sure to stop by the CSO to pick up a copy of the Community Involvement handout. This resource highlights additional volunteer local and national volunter opportunities.
Posted by kcc17 at October 23, 2009 11:44 AM