BENEFITS OF VOLUNTEERING
Whether it is important to you to solve a community problem, 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
Improves the likelihood that children will volunteer as an adult
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