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Benefits of Volunteering
Also, because volunteering involves people, it encourages socializing, networking and friend-making.
People who help others are likely to meet an array of people they may have not otherwise have met if
not for giving their time to an organization, person or cause. This helps with career networking, too, or
meeting other people who know others who have job openings, opportunities for consultants, or with
curiosities in doing business or building partnerships. Volunteering brings unlikely people together, as
well as likely people together, too. Some best friends and spouses have likely even been brought
together through volunteering.
It’s easy to avoid volunteering. It’s easy to claim too many responsibilities and time constraints, work,
stress and other obligations. But volunteering is for everyone, and every single person can give 20 or 30
minutes to an hour of their time a few days a month. Volunteering is so refreshing that giving time to
another person seems to give the volunteer a feeling of ease, a feeling of doing good, that it basically
restarts their energy clock, increasing their optimism and feeling of productivity. In many ways,
volunteering seems to add to the clock rather than take away from it. It’s mutually beneficial to all
parties included.
Also, volunteering – as with any endeavor where people come together for a common goal – creates the
feeling of ownership among other volunteers, like they are part of something bigger than themselves,
part of a team where the individuals only make up a whole. Once again, volunteering is about people –
people working with other people to help people in some way or another. That is what matters, and that
is what is at the very core of why volunteering is needed and will always exist. Helping people matters.
YyyyyytIt has been said that the giving of one’s time to others is the best gift one can give. Life is short
and we all die, so time is of the essence. Time can be seen, to some people, as being more valuable than
anything else. This notion extends to volunteering for an organization, or for anything, without being
paid. People volunteer in many ways – in their children’s schools, at their local church, at nursing and
retirement homes, in hospitals, at community events, at museums and libraries. All across the board,
people give their time to others in a number of ways – and in a number of forms and methods, as well.
Giving of one's time is the best gift one can give - that's what volunteers do!