What are your Volunteer Resolutions this Year?
I found this on the liveunited.org site on the benefits of volunteering.
Benefits of Volunteering
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
Content courtesy of liveunited.org
What are your Volunteer Resolutions this Year?

