Does anyone here volunteer for a charity?

[bleedingheart]

I have volunteered to help with a Children's Hospital fundraiser and have discovered that political organizations aren't the only ones who desparately need volunteers...

So who here volunteers for a charity?

[Demobrat]

1. I do probono work for an animal shelter.

But it's their brochures and advertising, not working with the animals themselves.

[DODI]

2. I work with the after-school programs at our school

Organized Parents Make a Difference. They do a lot of good stuff, but do need more people to volunteer. Many of the families are single parent or grandparent families. Many of the moms and dads have one or two jobs, many are also going to school at the same time so time is a rare commodity. Our city middle and high schools have implemented community service requirements for graduation so those kids help out too. There is a sad lack of volunteers.

[bleedingheart]

3. I volunteered for the reading program at our son's school

but have not heard anything back yet...

[flamingyouth]

4. I work as a volunteer grantwriter

And a volunteer cook for a homeless shelter and the Ronald McDonald house. I'm also the service chair for three different professional groups I'm involved with. I really love doing it - as far as hobbies go, you really can't beat helping someone out. Years ago when I was battling depression, someone recommended that I start helping out at the shelter, and it just grew from there. I've gotten way more out of it than I've ever given, believe me.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Up until two years ago I was the chair for an annual event for traumatic

brain injury. I then had surgery and had to step aside. I now do some volunteer work for an orphanage in Baja, Mexico and I often provide free entertainment for various fundraisers..just to show my support and help them reach their goals.

[sandnsea]

6. School things

I've done Girl Scouts, reading, and team parent types of things. When the last one is out of school, I'll probably find something that personally interests me more, like the library or something.

[Tesha]

7. I developed

the local Habitat for Humanity website.
http://nasHabitat.org
Gets them a lot more volunteers, local companies get highlighted, more money, supplies, people - all for a great purpose..

[newyawker99]

25. Hi Tesha!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Blue_State_Elitist]

8. 2nd Harvest Food Bank

[ForrestGump]

9. Lots for various environmental NGOs, in many ways......

I've also volunteered for a fair number of community events and programs and the like, as well as all sorts of miscellaneous volunteer stuff going back to kidhood. It's nice to help when and as you can, I'm reckoning.

[Wickerman]

10. Area youth leadership group

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. I've done lots of things

worked as a volunteer for an animal rescue operation
volunteered to teach Senior Citizens computer skills
volunteered to help with fundraising at my local health non-profit
worked raising funds for Refugees International-this was a good one, as I volunteered without them knowing about it, and, with help, launched an internet fundraising campaign that raised about a thousand bucks!

[pasadenaboy]

12. big brothers

i volunteer for big brothers. i enjoy it quite a bit.

[Raven]

13. Over the years, a bunch of stuff, lately, Catholic Charities in Boston

until the Cardinal screwed up. I should say, until we found out that the Cardinal had screwed up. Many volunteers went elsewhere after that, helping the same people but through other charities.

[Mountainman]

14. I volunteer to protect an old Native American site

It is a state park but is only accessible by tours conducted by docents of which I am one. The site was the winter home of the Indians who used to live here. Also we try to present the Indian's side of history, which is rarely told accurately.

[HERVEPA]

15. yes

Escort at Planned Parenthood Clinic, Leader of a Sierra Club Inner City Outings group (kids from the city taken hiking and camping), Reading program for kids brought into my workplace.

[GAspnes]

16. Read for the blind

I've done it my entire life. Well, since high school, anyway. I tape a weekly program for Minnesota State Services for the Blind's Radio Talking Book.

I work intermittently at a cat rescue shelter, and teach/repair computers at an 'elder residence'.

It's less volunteer work since my kids are grown. I used to be all over the school projects.

[rexcat]

17. 10 years with Aids Volunteers of Cincinnati

but got burned out. Last year volunteered in my children's class rooms. Charitable organizations are always looking for volunteers.

[Cheswick2.0]

18. mostly through church

It allows me to help with many different projects. We contribute to the Heifer Project every year, Habitat for Humanity and locally with Migrant Farm Workers.
I have not been as active as I would like because I have been working full time and going to school full time, but that will change next summer when I graduate.

[quaker bill]

19. I work with a homeless shelter

My wife and I as well as some friends donate, prepare, and serve meals at the shelter.

[Solly Mack]

20. Yes

From childhood until now; always. It was required of us as children and something I enjoy doing as an adult.

[Habibi]

21. Yup. Tutoring

for Literacy Volunteers, and fostering kittens for the local HS.

[newyawker99]

26. Congrats mmmarke!! 300 posts

:toast:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

22. city rescue mission homeless shelter...youth prison ministry...meals on

wheels ...and founder of Endangered Heirs, Inc. a nonprofit org. for at risk rural youth...opened a youth center 5 months ago...first youth center in this rural area in 40 years...the kids had no where to go before this center opened, except in the woods to have sex, drinks and drugs...

[listenup]

23. I give things, but don't have the time to volunteer

am thankful for those that do.

[populistmom]

24. I teach Sunday School

and baked for Habitat last week (because I couldn't build, but helped feed some of those who did).

[Breezy du Nord]

27. My 4-H group makes holiday cards for the nursing home

And we help out at shelters and the community action council