Helping Others Can Help You: Find Volunteering Opportunities and Make a Difference In Your Community

By Allie Mendoza

Helping others can really help you. Volunteering or community service and other ways of making a difference can provide health benefits, career-related and other personal benefits while nourishing your heart and soul.

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Attribution-NoDerivs License by a tree is nice — Sorting oranges at the SF Food Bank

It can help promote new perspectives about yourself that can help transform and enrich your life. This new knowledge and appreciation of yourself, your values, your inner beauty and strength, your self-worth and personal significance can help you transcend any boundaries imposed by circumstances in your life. This can help bring more joy, peace and happiness into your life.

Resources for Finding Volunteering Opportunities and Community Service Projects

  • Servenet.org — Find volunteering opportunities in your area. Find volunteering resources.
  • Virtual Volunteering – This is great if you’re very busy, but you still want to get involved and make a difference. You might have time for remote volunteering opportunities. You can volunteer “virtually” from anywhere using your computer. Visit Volunteermatch.org and click box for  “Search for Virtual Opportunities” instead of number of miles when you search for volunteering opportunities.
  • Volunteermatch.org –  Find volunteering opportunities in your area.

You can also use social media and social networking sites to get involved, take a stand and take action online. Here’s the link for an article by Josh Catone with a lot of great information for using social media for advocacy and activism online: 15 Ways to Use Social Media for Finding the Good.

Allie Mendoza writes for the SF Wellness Examiner column. If you want shortcuts for living well and living life to the fullest, visit www.HealthTips411.com.

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