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“The only gift is a portion of thyself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Volunteers are individuals who reach out beyond the confines of their paid employment and of their normal
responsibilities to contribute time and service to a not-for-profit cause in the belief that their activity is beneficial to others as well as satisfying to themselves.” (Taking
Volunteerism into the 21st Century, American Red Cross)
Reason for Volunteering
• To Help Others less Fortunate than
Myself• Build bonds with my
son and family• Enhance my resume• Give those in need
new resources• Empowerment to
both volunteer and recipient
• “Pay it Forward”• Build Self Esteem• Build Leadership
Skills• Better Use of My
Time• Gain Work
Experience• Build Self Worth• Meet New People• Show my son Value
of Volunteering
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Booker T. Washington
Personal Characteristics• Compassionate• Enjoyment of Helping
Others• Good Teaching Skills• Good Communicator• Searching for Personal
Growth• Resourcefulness• Likes a challenge and
hard work• Love my community• Creative• Disciplined• Efficient• Going the Extra Mile• Enhancing Leadership
role and techniques• Modest and Humble• Loves New Opportunity• Trust Worthy• Likes Team Work
“Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather
than depressed.”
Gerald Jamplosky
Things to Consider
• Establish how much time I can give
• Research the needs in the community
• Set clear SMART goals and expectations
• Explore Possibilities• Share and Recruit others• Explore family volunteer
opportunities
Volunteer as a Family• Helps families learn about social
issues • Provides new perspective on the
world• Passes on family values
• Provide a positive role model• Provides quality time for the family
to spend together• Increase interpersonal
communication• Improves problem solving within
family
Why Children Should Volunteer
• Enhances Development• Promotes a healthy
lifestyle• Teaches social
responsibility• Creates lifelong ethic of
service• Improves the community
“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things,
event if we do not get anything in return. It is the
joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire,
there is a kindness in everything we think, say, want,
and do.” Emanuel Swedenborg
Places to Volunteer• RACCAP –
Rappahannock Area Council of Children and Parents
• Share• Mental Health
America of Fredericksburg
• The Child Support Link
• Kids Care Club
• The Rappahannock Regional Library
Rappahannock Area Council of Children and Parents
Mission To promote positive parenting and to
prevent child abuse and neglect in the Rappahannock Area Community, which includes: Caroline County, City
of Fredericksburg, King George County, Orange County, Spotsylvania
County and Stafford County
www.raccap.org
SHARE Volunteer service is the heart of SHARE’s network. SHARE participants perform at least two hours of volunteer service monthly to strengthen their own community. Therefore, every person that participates with SHARE is a volunteer.
“There is no better exercise for your heart, then reaching down and helping to lift someone up.” Bernard Meltzer
MissionFor $20 plus 2 hours of volunteer service,
anyone one may receive a SHARE
package full of fresh vegetables, fruits, staple items and
frozen meats. The same amount of food
would cost approximately $40-
$45 at the supermarket. With SHARE, participants can save 50% - 60% on their groceries.
www.sharedc.org
Mental Health America of Fredericksburg
Mission
The Seniors Visitors
Program is a supportive
service program… that
promotes independence,
dignity and healthy living
for older adults in their own
home environment
“No act of kindness, no matter how
small, is ever wasted.” Aesop
www.mhafred.org/senior_visitors_files/index.html
The Child Support
Link
* Child Support Economics Education Program
*Uninsured Children’s Program
* Housing Education Program
* Food Program* Christmas 911
* School Days 911Phone 540-424-0917
* Website under construction
MissionTo reduce child
poverty, homelessness, and hunger caused by non payment of
child support
“A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass
as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for
someone who might be thirsty.” G. Donald
Gale
Kids Care Club
MissionDevelop compassion and to inspire a spirit of service in
elementary and middle school age youth
www.kidscare.org“Only when we give joyfully, without
hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.” Leo Buscaglia
Rappahannock Regional Library
Mission
- provide library resources and
services necessary to meet the
evolving educational,
recreational, and informational needs of the public, thus
enhancing individual and community life
www.librarypoint.org
“We are prone to judge success by the index of our
salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the
quality of our service relationship
to humanity.” Martin Luther King,
Jr.
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“The influence of a beautiful, helpful
character is contagious, and may revolutionize a
whole town.” Collier Graham