...You Can Make a Difference by Volunteering There are many different ways you can make a difference by volunteering; however, where to start can sometimes be difficult, because there are many people in need. Below I will provide some example and past experiences on where and how to volunteer, so that you too can make a difference by volunteering. Here are couple different genres of volunteering, youth, homeless, seniors, and your community. There are at least 400 organizations across the valley of the sun that focus on raising money, providing food, shelter, and assistance for the homeless, youth, senior citizens and even for your community. Sometimes it is hard to find time or even selfish reasons get in our way from volunteering, but not only does volunteering makes the person you’re helping feel good, it also makes the person volunteering Feel good about themselves. And you know that at least for day you are making a difference in someone’s life. One of the genres of volunteering is for youth. We as young adults owe it to our younger generation to make sure that have the same kinds of opportunities that we have or had. After all they are our future. On Saturday April 5, I was privileged to participate in Mesa Harley Davidson’s 15 annual Torch Run for youth Special Olympics of Arizona. The event was a success and we raised over $5,000 dollars to help support the cause. Here are a few places where you can make a difference. Boys and Girls Club. There are 11 Boys and Girls...
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...The Importance of Community Service Summary: Without community service in our society many people would not know the meaning, usefulness, or importance of charity. Serving in your community addresses many grass roots problems that fall through the cracks of government and social agencies. Community service is a very important factor when it comes to bettering your society. Through my own experiences and observations I have come to support and believe my opinion on this issue. My experience that supports this theory involved my job this past summer of 2004. I paced around the house for a while until I finally decided to sit down and read the newspaper. There was a section on the community which contained a list of volunteer activities ranging from helping in soup kitchens to helping as an electrician. I found that it might be interesting to be of assistance to and make a difference to someone this summer rather than get a job to benefit only me. I called a number and decided that I wanted to spend my time taking care of the grocery shopping for an elderly handicapped woman who has since become a good friend. Finally I was spending my time having fun while making a difference in one woman's life. It may not have paid in dollars, but the experience and pleasure I gained was infinitely more valuable to me than any amount of money I could have earned. Also, through volunteering I started to gain more confidence. Instead of being nervous or scared, I saw this as an experience...
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...be major role differences in the way that organizations implement their leadership practices, all of the approaches tend to be unified with the desired outcome of improving the organizations efficiency practices and growth in helping the organization to move forward in the direction that they want it to go. A1. Description of the Organization The ACS or Army Community Service center is a one stop family center that focuses on serving military communities all over the world. It was implemented and put into place to offer an array of services that include but is not limited to information and referral systems, relocation assistance programs, orientations and briefings, financial readiness, family advocacy, employment readiness programs, army family team building classes, army family action plans, army volunteer corps, swap and assist shops, food pantries and Christmas shops. These programs in some way shape or form are very important to the military, their families and communities in which they were designed to serve as a helping agent to assist in helping making military family lives to run a little smoother in spite of the different and frequent PCS moves that military families have to face on a recurring basis. The main mission of the Army Community Services organization is to “Facilitate commander's ability to provide comprehensive, coordinated, and responsive services that support readiness of Soldiers, civilian employees and...
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...Softball League (MPPPSL) As Board member of the MPPPSL, I would like to present your company with a wonderful way to help our community by financially helping a local girl’s softball league. MPPPSL has been a part of Manassas Park community for over 40 plus years, helping teach young women, sportsmanship, team work, and help build the confidence of these young women that they will need as adults. While the sponsorship is a tax deduction there are other added benefits. Sponsoring gives you both the great pride that you are helping a young girl to learn to be a part of a team as well as giving back to your community. Your sponsorship will help buy equipment, uniforms, pay for umpires and the cost to maintain the fields. While the league tries not to turn any child away from playing it is getting harder due lack of financial sponsorships. Our league prides ourselves in helping many families with multiple children, and families that can’t afford the cost of the neighbor leagues, which can cost up to $180 for one child. The league does ask the girls to participle in fund raisers to help offset some of these costs. But with your help the league will be able to help more girls and families. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. If I may, I will phone your office in the next few days to arrange a convenient time to discuss the details of the proposed partnership. Yours sincerely, Ron Faircloth – President -571-242-2011 Anna Miller – Vice President...
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...Social Networking Sites Social networking started many years ago, but in this day in age, it is more advance and has several benefits. Social networking started before anyone knew of Facebook or MySpace. LinkedIn offers professionals the opportunities to network with other professionals in your field and organizations. In this paper, I will explain how a websites such as LinkedIn can help someone to stay connected to the professional community, how to use LinkedIn, and how other technological tools that have been developed to help an individual manage their professional business contacts and/or stay connected. On the LinkedIn website, I created my profile and found one organizations that I knew about. I found it difficult to choose only three, but I chose the three that I would enjoy working for. The first one that I chose was Thresholds Mental Healthcare in the Greater Chicago Area. Thresholds provides a comprehensive, individualized program of mental health services that include psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery programs, outreach programs, housing, educational advancement, social opportunities and employment services. Most of their programs are community based. They offer unparalleled in-house employee training and development programs (Thersholds Mental Healthcare). My second choice is the Lighthouse Emotional Wellness in Arlington Heights, IL. The Lighthouse is a premiere center that offers a unique combination of traditional, holistic,...
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...Wisdom And Action Emily Andrade Paulina Cary HSM 230 7/25/ 2012 Ethical Wisdom And Action Questions and Applications on pp. 172-173 of Ethical Leadership in Human Services Post a 200- to 300-word response to questions 1-3 of the Questions and Applications section on pp. 172-173 of Ethical Leadership in Human Services. For question 1, be sure to support your decision by addressing at least 5 of the bulleted questions listed on p. 173 1. Analyze the following ethical dilemma from the perspective of rationality and respect (Dilemma Tucker & Marcuson, 1998). A local nonprofit organization that networks with other service agencies in the area was designed to fill gaps in needed services for families. This agency has been in existence for several years and has gained the respect of the community. The staff of this agency can serve families who have a need that can- not be served in any other way through connecting these families with community volunteers who adopt them. The volunteer director of the agency works on a volunteer basis and contributes numerous hours each week to fulfill responsibilities associated with this position. To reduce her workload, the director of the agency applied to seven different foundations to request money for a part-time administrative assistant. The agency requested $10,000 from each of the foundations, with the hope that they would receive assistance from one of them. To the surprise of the director...
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...a book that open the eyes and introduce what Social Entrepreneurship is all about. Social enterprise combines the interests of shareholders and the entrepreneurs with the society’s disease which is poverty. Helping the poor and unprivileged people who need the help of other people in order to survive and have a better or decent way of living. The society’s diseases are brought by the environmental degradation and climate change. Social media was used to market or to communicate with other people who are willing to help those who are in need. By using social media,...
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...Helping Your Child Learn Science U.S. Department of Education Margaret Spellings Secretary First published in September 1992. Revised in 2004 and 2005. This booklet is in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part for educational purposes is granted. While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, the citation should be: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Communications and Outreach, Helping Your Child Learn Science, Washington, D.C., 2005. To order copies of this publication in English or Spanish, write to: ED Pubs Education Publications Center U.S. Department of Education P.O. Box 1398 Jessup, MD 20794-1398; or fax your request to: (301) 470-1244; or e-mail your request to: edpubs@inet.ed.gov. or call in your request toll-free: 1-877-433-7827 (1-877-4-ED-PUBS). If 877 is not yet available in your area, call 1-800-872-5327 (1-800-USA-LEARN). Those who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a teletypewriter (TTY), should call 1-800-437-0833. or order online at: www.edpubs.org/webstore/Content/search.asp This publication is also available on the Department’s Web site at: www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html On request, this publication is available in alternate formats, such as Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette. For more information, please contact the Department’s Alternate Format Center at (202) 260-9895 or (202) 205-0818. Children’s books and magazines are mentioned in this booklet...
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...WEBSITE EVALUATION Not every church will have every ministry. If they do not have a particular ministry, just indicate this in the space provided. Church #1 Name: Saddleback Community Church Church #1 Website: www.saddleback.com 1. Ministry is…praying for others. a. Does the church have a prayer ministry? What does it look like? Saddleback Community Church does have a prayer ministry that is fairly easy to get to. It is located under Care & Help and listed as Prayer Ministry. My only negative belief is that the main page has too much going on with to many other pages from it that it can be distracting and hard to find what you want if you are not sure where to look for it. Otherwise, they Prayer Ministry page itself is great as it is simple and easy to use. They have a simple message about the ministry, a number to call if you need help or to submit a request, and a Prayer request form on the page you can fill out and submit allowing for many different avenues to submit a request to them. 2. Ministry is…following Jesus’ example by practicing spiritual mentoring and multiplying. a. Does the church have a strategy for evangelism? After reviewing the website, you can tell that the ministries are built (including the training offered) around evangelism. However, there is no specific strategy layed out on the website about evangelism for the church. The closest I could find was a reference to Rick Warren’ s book “The Purpose Driven Life”. b. Does the church...
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...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I do think that walking to school is a good way to help the environment. It benefits our community in multiple ways. Although it is easier to drive to school, it is easier to save the environment by walking to school . By walking to school, we help our community in many ways. We would save a lot of money and time. If the whole community were to take their children to school everyday; it would cost $27,000. Since gas prices are near $3 a gallon, and rising, It isn’t a good choice to drive your children to school, unless you have to. Taking your children to school also takes up your time that doesn’t need to be wasted. On average, parents take about an hour a day taking their children to school. In one school year, you would we wasting 180 hours! An hour a day may not seem like much, but adding it all up, it is a lot more than you would’ve thought. By letting your children walk to school, you benefit in a couple of ways. If you don’t want your child to walk to school alone, there are different ways you can make sure they get to school without getting in your car. Now you can trust older students to make sure your son or daughter gets to school safely and unharmed. This saves tons of gas, money, and time. And it an innocuous experience for you child; it could actually benefit them! If you trust your son or daughter to get to school alone, but you don’t want them to walk to school because it takes too long, there are still alternative...
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...unfortunate or too weak to compete with their surroundings. Those with resources find their social, economic and housing status in a much better position. One study (2013) says “27.4% of those aged 16-19 were volunteering, compared to only 18.9% of 20-24 year olds” (USBL). That means college student likely less volunteering in the community compare to school student, but these number should be increase not decries because college student are smarter and understand better then school students therefore, college student should be more responsible than school student. We should keep that in our mind volunteering allows us to use multiple means, whether monetary or physical contribution to provide facilities for people and animals. The main purpose of going to college is learning and get able to find a path for your life. By going to college your education will be limited in books. You will not get chance to learn about the real life, but if you volunteer to your community you can learn about yourself you can get chance to discover your hidden talent. According to students.ucsd.edu Dr. La Jolla said, “Volunteers discover hidden talents that may change your view on your self-worth” (Jolla). Many of people don’t have any idea about what they know and about their ability. When they go for volunteering they can...
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...United way: Not only help get you on your feet, but help you stay there. FUNDRASER HOW WE DID IT: Started off with the lemonade stand (selling approach) on the corner where the stop sign is. Bye humane society. (noticing how many students visited. Bagging groceries: both involved with Bagging groceries through church Plymouth covenant. Gave us the idea. Pastor Dan gave us the idea because we went to him. Groceries best idea Experience Getting involved in community Seeing appreciation from people for offering our help And them giving there money to the people in need People’s reactions/ thoughts: Lemonade stand: The few people that stopped by wanted to know what we were doing and for what, so we explained to them that it was for a class and we were fundraising to raise money for The United Way and how it was going to help so many people. Most people were walking and stopped by to buy some lemonade GLOBAL IMPACT: Improving education: by helping children in youth achieve their potential. In the video watched, I noticed that they not only help you get on your feet, but make sure you stay on your feet. Income: promote financial stability and independence Health: improving peoples health WHAT WE COULD’VE DONE BETTER: Get opinions around campus about what people would actually buy or attend so we could base it off of that and have a better success rate Topic: The United Way Fundraiser Specific Purpose: Working in a group, and trying to raise as much...
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...In society there are many different ways individuals can be labeled as socially responsible. Many responsibilities come into play while being socially responsible. To fulfill in the right way of being socially responsible in society individuals need to work hard to be labeled the right way. Americans need to be the doers not the sayers for our community to be socially responsible all together. Volunteering is a way to become excepted into the society of being responsible. In Roselyn K. Polk’s article “Social Responsibility” she states “the construct of social responsibility has been conceptualized in a variety of ways including volunteerism, community, and civic activity.” This means it will not only benefit you it will also help the community with your kindness and your ability to help out where it is needed. Helping special need kids with the learning skills that they need to succeed in life with benefit one’s self and the individual children. This will not only help the kids needing the learning but, it will also show one’s capability of being responsible way of helping others....
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...Helpful Neighbours I was pondering how some people can be clueless towards the existence of their neighbours even after living in that particular apartment for many years. It’s an irony since we were taught to co-exist in a community where we depend on each other to achieve a more meaningful living environment. Being friendly and helpful are just some of the traits neighbours should display willingly towards others. Helpful neighbours are rare in recent times but those who are out there are gems we should treasure. They are neighbours who expect favours in return, neighbours who help out of goodwill and those with the intentions of being meddlesome and invasive. These neighbours are just a door or few away to come to our rescue at any time of the day. As we have heard numerous times, good things don’t come easy. Some might need to observe you struggling on both hands with bags of groceries, only to ask but not offer help. While some willingly offer to collect and safe keep your daily papers sent at your doorstep knowing you are going out of town. However, not all of these are purely act of kindness. Some come with hidden agendas of their own. There’s a saying which goes, “There’s no free lunch in the world” to remind us to always be mindful towards others extreme kindness. Are helpful neighbours purely helpful? Some of them expected us to return favours for those help they rendered. They seemed like service providers expecting to get paid for the services they provided...
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...with an individual to realize their dreams. Helping without hurting is a process between those giving help and those receiving help. We have to understand why good intentions are not enough to help stem the tide of poverty. Bringing ideas and resources into a community will not fix the problems that exist in the community. We must find innovators from within the community. Development is a process of change requiring the person to seek change from within themselves. Change will not help by simply giving money or things to a person living in poverty. It is important to ask the right question such as what skills or gifts do you have that can be used to move towards financial security. Often times the holy...
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