Do you do any volunteer work?
 

For whom? Doing what? How much time do you give to it?

Yes, 37.5 hours per year. Usually at a food bank.

I ain't got time for that crap.

I'd like to do work at an animal shelter, but the nearest one is 70 miles.

I tutor elementary aged kids six hours a week. It can get pretty frustrating when they don't understand a subject.

I wanted to volunteer on Chiefsplanet, but DaFace had to be a giant ass and not offer me a mod position

I operate a community newspaper. It's a community service and it doesn't put any money into my pocket. We also don't charge anything for fundraisers and charities to advertise. I used to do things for various charities but I got out of that several years ago. I'd like to do a Big Brother thing someday but my own kids don't get enough of my time so that's probably a pipe dream.

I also volunteer at my church for various projects.

I support single, unwed, teen mothers. One dollar at a time.

I used to be a volunteer AV guy at the Truman Library. I'm still on the roster, but since I have to drive 30 miles to work each way now, it's hard for me to volunteer now.

If you've never been to the Truman Library, it's worth the afternoon spent.

We assist in a yearly NKF fundraiser via Maya's Miracles for Camp Chimer. We also do what we can for our friends and neighbors however we can. Proud member of 37 Forever and the local historical society unfortunately other than donations we haven't been as involved in charities in the last few years as we should be.

I help to mentor elementary/middle grades at-risk kids every Wednesday. Other than that, I volunteer at the Food Bank, elementary school, and a service organization 8-10 times a month. It's busy, but it's always a lot of fun.

Glad to hear you finished up with that gig picking up trash on the highway.

Several times a year, it depends where the need is. Anything from the Salvation Army, to helping round up hundreds of abandoned horses.

Me too. The orange jumpsuit was getting itchy.

My wife is very active in nonprofit issues, so we go to a lot of overpriced dinners. I've generally done stuff in the past on an ad-hoc basis, though I don't have anything going at the moment other than introducing a democratic regime into Adams County, Colorado.

I hear ya.

Yeah and that whole "You look like a donk fan" when you were sporting that outfit, had to get old. ;)

I babysit a bunch of whiney kids. At least it seems that way sometimes. :D

Bwana's sitting on my side. Make him move.

In the past, I've done the ACS Relay For Life several times. Last Fall, I joined the local chapter of a legal support professionals organization. That organization looks for and provides several opportunities to volunteer. Last Christmas, I worked at a gift wrap booth at the mall to raise money for Developmental Center of the Ozarks. This weekend, I am helping a boutique that provides clothes for free to those who need it. I've benefited from that particular service, when they had a few days where they offered free business clothes. They are having a few days coming up where they will provide prom dresses. I'll be helping take dresses from a warehouse to the boutique.

Wait, I thought orange jumpsuits were the sign of a Raiders fan?

That's because you threw your candy wrapper at me, Kevin!

I forgot about an ALS thing I did in the fall. I also donate crap to our local PTA which vetts families in need over the holidays. I like to do most of my stuff hyper-local so I know my neighbors are actually benefiting. I rarely donate to national organizations.

LMAO

Solid point.

If Trump runs? I will volunteer my time. Which I have tons of at the moment.
If not I will just sit back & keep bitching.

Likewise.

One of the local high schools was doing a big bike drive this last week to send bikes to some place in Africa. :spock: I had two bikes to donate, but I took them down to the local Salvation Army.

I volunteer at St Anns church in independence. They have fish dinners on fridays alot and I help them set up tables and I help them with carrying things and church repairs.

I helped rebuild a rec center after the Greensburg tornado

I was all set up to teach cooking classes to mothers down at Operation Breakthrough, but I ended up moving to SC before the first class. Never found a place quite the same in SC. I should try again here in AL.

Yeah. I tried to get out of the construction business during a lull 3 or 4 years ago. Ended up donating some pretty expensive stuff to a guy who is local but takes everything to construct houses in Jamaica. I kinda regret that one now.

At least it aint rusting away like my equipment.
Was it a tax right off?

Well if you ever make it down there, let them know who you are and I'm sure the locals will set you up with a nice long, fat, "Marley." ;)

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Like Phobia and Bwana I don't donate to national orgs, especially the Red Cross. The NKF fundraiser is a local KC event where all proceeds go to Camp Chimer a camp for dialysis patients in Lawrence. This was fundraiser came about when my great niece Maya was found to have no functioning kidneys at 9 months of age and after all the help the family received they felt a need to give back and started Maya's Miracles. They try to do a couple of fundraisers a year but the big one has been Martini Madness. Maya attended Camp Chimer for the first time last year at age 9. She has been on dialysis for almost 10 years. So this is a personal charity for me.

Volunteer work is for criminals

No that's unpaid labor.

No, that would be called Community Service."


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I'm doing Science Olympiad this weekend. I'm taking over running the local Math Counts event in a year or so, and have helped with that event the last few years. Both are one-day Saturday competitions for Jr. High or HS students. In the past I've served food at the downtown mission and served as the chair of the board of education for a parochial school.

Sure. What kind of equipment do you have rusting away? I'm slammed right now. Spring is gonna be crazy.

I volunteer to jerk off the animals at the zoo on my weekends off.

I'm a volunteer counselor for the American Legion Boys State of Kansas program - if you're unfamiliar with it, it's a leadership academy that helps instill civic responsibility in high school juniors that uses a mock government as the mechanism. The actual camp is one week in June, but there's a ton of prep work that goes on throughout the year with getting things organized, recruiting for attendance, etc. It's really a great organization that I'm very proud to be apart of. I also do what I can for the United Way, and I'm also leading some efforts for a Food for Students food drive - we build relationships with area grocers and people who can donate food for children in local elementary schools who are deemed potentially hungry on the weekends.

I just started doing some. I'm working with juvenile adult males, and trying to integrate them into improper online social behavior. I'll let you know how it goes. :D

Wow - I just remembered something else I'm doing. I'm a mentor for non-violent criminals who are on parole. I just make contact with them and encourage them as needed. If I know of a job opening, I direct them in that direction. I forgot about it because I've been in the program for about 6 months through Catholic Charities but they haven't given me anybody yet. I was supposed to get a call last week but didn't.

"Volunteering is for suckers. Do you know that so-called volunteers don't even get paid?"

--Homer Simpson, 1997

I coach little kids basketball (I have no kids).

I've also done quite a bit of volunteer work through my fraternity in the past, but haven't much the last few years.

I do work at the Free Health Clinic and some various activities related to my church.

That's crazy because I know the program your talking about. When I first got out and was looking for a job they were going to set me up with a 'mentor' but I didn't follow through with it.

Have you met richard bolt?

Is he related to Usain?

I know him well. He was a client and a friend. He moved to Pennsylvania before Thanksgiving which is another reason they haven't connected me with anybody.

He's gone? That sucks, he was a really good guy. Helped me out with transportation while looking for a job.

And also, have you ever done any work with the NWCDC?

Small world. He got me into the program. He lived about half a mile from me.

Scaffolding,mixer,wheel barrels,shovels, brick saws, & all the other CRAP to run a masonry crew. We have houses coming up. Not enough homes to put a crew back together.

Do you anybody involved with the nwcdc or the fairmount community center? They do alot of work with contruction companies.

Nope. Not at all.

I'm the chair for The Arthritis Community Services and am in the process of heading up a new fundraiser.

I also volunteer time and advertising space to our Northend Community Association whose primary goal is a scholarship program for youth.

Lastly,I'm on the Postal Advisory Committee.

I wonder if our Northend Community Association Rainmakers concert would pull any folks this way?

I just want to tell everyone to keep up the good work. For those who don't volunteer, even doing just a little can go a long way. IMO, if I can help at least one person, it's worth it.

And there are opportunities everywhere, and it doesn't have to be through organizations. If you have an elderly neighbor who needs help, maybe with their lawn, grocery shopping, or just someone to visit with for a while, that's the best place to start.

My sister-in-law used to be really devoted to the Susan Komen Breast Cancer organization. Every year, she would round up several women to put a team together for one of their 3-day, 60-mile walk for the cure events. She did it in 3 or 4 different cities and she spent a lot of time raising money both for her own donation commitment and also to help the other members of her teams raise theirs. My wife did it with her 2 or 3 times.

A month or so ago, my wife was talking to her and asked her where she was going to walk this year and it turns out that she has completely disassociated herself with that charity. Apparently, she saw an article that described just how small the fraction of her donations that actually went to breast cancer research was compared to the overhead of the charity and she was disgusted. I don't know the breakdown, but it didn't surprise me because a lot of these large charity organizations are that way. Now she works with some local dog rescue charity that she feels better about.

I've heard only about 25% of what Susan G Komen Foundation raises actually goes toward researching the cure.

Nope. Just give money to places, too lazy to do any actual volunteer work.

To be honest haven't given much thought to volunteering until this year. I have to do some volunteer work for a couple of classes that I take.

I usually work at a soup kitchen every other month and work on various projects with my son's Cub Scout group.

Yeah, I do think there is a lot of money that goes to the ACS. However, I will support the ACS as well, because they do employ people who help in several tasks. One such task is manning phones for people who call in looking for information regarding different cancers, local doctors they can go to, organizations that provide specific kinds of help (i.e. food, prescriptions, etc) for cancer patients, as well as providing transportation to doctors appointments for those who need it (all free of charge to the patient). They also have in-house personnel who work to organize every event, do the marketing, etc.

This is why I also enjoy the professional organization I'm in. Helping local girls who can't afford prom dresses, women who can't afford business clothes for work/looking for work, etc. I will also probably do more with the DCO gift wrap booth next year. That was a lot of fun.

special olympics missouri
down syndrome center - st. louis children's hospital
local sheltered workshop
church
patriot guard riders
whatever mrs. sec tells me to do.
sec

Very smart man. :thumb:

I volunteer with the youth sports association in my town. At times, I spend about 15 hours a week but generally it's about 5.

I coach youth soccer and do fundraisers for the Boys & Girls Club.

I volunteer from time to time at 'the kitchen,' a soup kitchen of sorts.

Tutoring reading at the public schools under NCLB last year for quite a lot of hours more than 20 a week from Jan to beginning of May. Also, donate graphics work, if I am not on a project. Do at least one per year for various people or causes. Help at a community Christmas event a few years. Help at my kid's former school when she was there as well as a lot when she was a Brownie/Scout. My favorite is the tutoring kids and getting them succeeding again. That feels good to see the kid and parents pleased.

Oh, if you are counting that, I have no idea how much gas and time I burned plowing driveways and the streets out in front of people's homes with my ATV, so they could get out this winter. The snow plows around here don't cover side roads and we had one hell of a winter. There were people getting stuck left and right in my neighborhood. I spent two full days after on giant storm, moving snow.

People were very grateful, offering money, shaking my hand, old ladies were bringing out pies, the whole nine yards. LMAO I wouldn't take anyone's money, but when old ladies brought out pies, well, I'll just say they were damn good! I tried to turn the first one down, but I could tell it hurt her feelings, so I accepted it. Evidently word got around, because it was like a freaking bake sale over the next two days.

IMO, that's the best form of payment. They love to bake, and it takes time and much effort (as I'm sure they don't buy the already made pie crusts). They benefit from your time and effort, and you benefit from theirs. :)

I'm reasonably active in Sertoma. Our club raises funds for the Boys and Girls clubs, and I generally get to drink at most of our fundraisers.

It's a win-win.

Heh, yeah, I've been putting in extra cardio to take care of the "extra benefit" of eating those delicious pies. :doh!:About one more week and I'll be in business.

I work two hours a week tutoring (legal) immigrants who are trying to learn English.

"son of bitch, son of bitch!"

Quite a bit. I think we all have a responsibility to make our communities a better place to live.
Sometimes it takes a while to see the payback, but it is worth it.
My kids now play on playground equipment that I helped build several years before they were born.


After helping with another event at a park a couple of years ago, I saw a couple of older gentlemen working on this veteran's memorial, and I jumped in and helped the rest of the day. I was pretty oblivious to the gathered viewers until they sent me this photo. I like it because I think it shows a good message.

I'm a National Official for a non-profit Engineering professional organization. Probably around 100 hours per year.

What's the message? Everyone can sit around as long as there's still one sap willing to jump in the hole and dig? ;)

I don't get the reference.

Why not? Rainmakers are a big deal. Be a fun weekend trip for some folks. If it raises $100, it's worth the effort.

I don't know if that is true, but they have developed such an effective marketing machine that funds for other charities or other types of cancers are a lot slimmer than they used to be because Komen is king now.