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New to Volunteering?
So you want to spend some time doing things you enjoy, meeting interesting people and maybe even gaining some new skills and experiences along the way?
Sounds like you might be interested in volunteering.
Volunteering offers lots of different things for different people. Some people volunteer to lend a helping hand or give back to the community. Others are more interested in ways to learn new skills or to get some work experience.
Some of us volunteer regularly over a long period of time, while others might work on a short-term project or get involved in activities when they can (even if it's once a year). Basically, it takes all sorts of people from all walks of life to make the volunteering world go around.
But most of us don't know about the variety of volunteering opportunities or the many other benefits of volunteering. Who knows, it just might change your life.
So what are the benefits for you?
Whether it is important to you to solve a community problem, advance a worthy cause or to develop as a person, volunteering offers many benefits in appreciation for the gift of your time and expertise.
Volunteering can help you:
- Make important networking contacts
- Learn or develop skills
- Teach your skills to others
- Enhance your résumé
- Gain work experience
- Build self-esteem and self-confidence
- Improve your health
- Meet new people
- Feel needed and valued
- Express gratitude for help you may have received in the past from an organization
- Communicate to others that you are ambitious, enthusiastic and care about the community
- Make a difference in someone's life
- Improves the likelihood that children will volunteer as an adult
Oh yeah, and don't forget you will definately enjoy yourself!
