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Benefits of Volunteering
Whether it is important to you to solve a community concern, 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
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Your United Way contribution goes to work creating lasting changes right where you live. Working with a broad range of community partners, United Way supports new approaches that focus on prevention and community changes. So give now!
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Five Ways to Live United
| 1. | Purchase school supplies for a local school to distribute to children who need them |
| 2. | Allow a high school student to shadow you at work and show them how apply things you learned in school |
| 3. | Tutor at an adult literacy or technology program |
| 4. | Purchase personal care items such as deodorant, toothbrushes and soap and drop them off at the local homeless shelter |
| 5. | Help senior citizens learn how to detect and prevent fraud |
