For me it was volunteering for the local reading corp helping young children who had been struggling to learn to read catch up. It is an amazing thing to see and experience when someone really takes off reading it opens up the entire world.
One of my wife's former coworkers miscarried her twins earlier in life. She invited us to walk with her for March of Dimes/March for Babies and we try to walk with her every year that we're available. It means a lot to her and it feels great to support someone even if we're not directly connected at this point in time.
Compound interest/dividends is amazing. When investing in dividend growth stocks you not only generate a future income for yourself but also allow the magic of compounding to do its thing. Investing and re-investing those growing dividends year after year for several decades will no doubt ensure a steady stream of income for retirement.
A great article to teach newbies about stocks and investing. I would go one further and explain the concept of dividend growth investing. We'll all need to rely on another source of income in our retirements as social security and other entitlements will become insignificant in the decades to come.
My husband and I do after hours foster care for when dfcs is closed. We take calls in the middle of the night to take in children who have just been thru a horrible ordeal or simply taken from the only family they've ever known. We had a homeless child walking in the cold w his mentally ill mother barefoot on the side of I 75 on a cold Christmas night becuz she hallucinated someone was after them. We have since adopted two children that would have been sold into human trafficking. They have blessed me more than I could bless them.
I buy a lot of whatever organic items are on sale and then freeze them for later use. Especially with fruit in the summer... then I have it in my extra freezer all winter for pies, smoothies, etc. Works well for meat and pantry items also.
The Volunteer experience that had the deepest imact on me was at an Autism camp! Autism is everywhere today, and this experience working at the camp for a summer really opened my eyes! The autistic children and adults have to much to give and are so smart! Touched my heart for life!
Volunteering at a small hands-on kids' museum in my hometown during a college break was such a fulfilling and nostalgic experience for me. I didn't know it at the time, but it would lead me to a career in a similar setting a few years down the road!
Volunteering by fosterign dogs has the most impact. Knowing that I am helping dogs start there way on a good life and away from neglect and abuse makes me feel good
Collecting food and other goods to deliver to the needy. The joy and tears when we gave them the packages was amazing. They were so happy for the littlest things.
I volunteered during Christmas for the East Valley Boys Club of La Puente. I had complete strangers walk up and donate presents for club member’s, money, services for the club. This was possibly the most impactful experience in my life because not only did I realize how easy it was to make a difference, but it also showed me how open total strangers can be and how giving people are when you’re leading by example.
Being able to volunteer for Toys for Tots and seeing the happiness that something as small as a jumprope brought to a child was more impactful and educational for me on the importance of giving of both material thing and of yourself. The look on the children’s faces is something that won’t soon be forgotten.
I am a coach volunteer for one of my city’s youth basketball team’s. It’s a great experience to see the kid’s grow and improve throughout the season. It teaches them the importance of commitment and improvement through persistence and goal setting and it teaches me same by committing myself to continue to show up and help these kids grow.
I volunteer my time to babysit for local youth parents who need a few hours a day to go to school. Being the sister of a young mom and seeing the struggle to make time for studies, to watch the baby and work, it left me wanting to help. My nephew needs his mom to go to school to create a better future for him, but it isn’t just my nephew who needs a better future. There are many young parents in our communities who need those extra hours. It is my belief that contributing my extra hours to help these parents create a better future for his/ her child will ultimately lead to a better future for society as a whole.
I’m involved with kid’s camp, which is a program led by local Boys and Girls Clubs around the country. This is a program that allows low cost child care and academic assistance for parents who may not have the time or resources to look after their child’s academic improvement. I’m impacted by this on a daily basis when I see how surprised parents at their children’s improvement. A lot of the time parents who have a limited education themselves might not know how to help. That’s where I come in as well as the other volunteers who contribute their time to help run this program.
One Christmas, rather than spending the holiday in my usual way, I decided to spend it volunteering at a local Humane Society shelter. The experience was profound for me in several ways. First, I saw the selflessness of the people who were regular volunteers, and of those who made their career caring for these neglected, mistreated, or abandoned animals. Also, I saw what a need there was to share of one's time and heart in a meaningful way on one of the days that most honors selflessness and love. Finally, I learned to view volunteering as something not to be woven into my normal day-to-day schedule, but something that deserved as firm a place in my life as most any other undertaking.
volunteering near ground zero at a relief station near bowling green...this was November 2001, just a couple of months after the attack...i helped rescue workers with all sorts of food, dry socks, steel toed boots, etc...it was overwhelming and intense but historic.
I worked with kids in a homeless shelter during the summer. It was so rewarding to take the kids on field trips, help them read, and do arts and crafts. They taught me so much!!
I have volunteered in a number of my community organizations including my church, food bank, hospital and children's schools. My most impactful volunteering experience is making Prayer Quilts for the Prayers and Squares Quilt Ministry. A hand made prayer quilt can be given to someone experiencing an emotional, physical or spiritual needs. Heavy threads are woven into the quilt and then a community comes together and "ties" the prayers into the quilt. To date, I have made over forty quilts. Hundreds of people have tied prayers into the quilts. The most recent quilt I made was given to the son of our local mail lady. Christopher was in a horrific car accident. The prayer quilt brought our neighborhood together in prayer to support this young man and his family. We recruited people at our neighborhood BBQ, Bible Study and that we encountered to tie a knot and say a prayer. This ministry allows we to do something that I love, make quilts, and allows me to turn my own feelings of sadness, despair or hope into something tangible.
Thank you so much for posting this along with suggestions! I just graduated college and am trying to get my feet wet in freelancing. Unfortunately, not knowing where to turn, I've started out with the bidding sites. Before beginning on oDesk, I perfected my profile - overview, several relevant tests with great scores, schooling, a modest hourly rate, etc. The only thing missing were portfolio pieces. I landed one job that earned me $20 and the contract ended unexpectedly a week later. The last three jobs I've been offered ALL disguised themselves as good, hourly paying jobs, with the client then privately offering measly fixed prices that, in the end, they can get away with not paying. In one case, the pay would have equated to $1.30 an hour! One job was to pose as a fan and post comments on a business' Facebook Page and the other was to use my personal Amazon account to mass copy and paste reviews about products into the comments sections. Unreal. I'd rather pull my hair out out of boredom than do something shady I don't believe in, and for peanuts.
For five years I volunteered to work with dogs at our local animal shelter. I own three dogs, but still enjoyed working with such a wide variety of good dogs of different breeds. It's a great experience for anyone who loves animals.
For me it was volunteering for the local reading corp helping young children who had been struggling to learn to read catch up. It is an amazing thing to see and experience when someone really takes off reading it opens up the entire world.
One of my wife's former coworkers miscarried her twins earlier in life. She invited us to walk with her for March of Dimes/March for Babies and we try to walk with her every year that we're available. It means a lot to her and it feels great to support someone even if we're not directly connected at this point in time.
Compound interest/dividends is amazing. When investing in dividend growth stocks you not only generate a future income for yourself but also allow the magic of compounding to do its thing. Investing and re-investing those growing dividends year after year for several decades will no doubt ensure a steady stream of income for retirement.
A great article to teach newbies about stocks and investing. I would go one further and explain the concept of dividend growth investing. We'll all need to rely on another source of income in our retirements as social security and other entitlements will become insignificant in the decades to come.
My husband and I do after hours foster care for when dfcs is closed. We take calls in the middle of the night to take in children who have just been thru a horrible ordeal or simply taken from the only family they've ever known. We had a homeless child walking in the cold w his mentally ill mother barefoot on the side of I 75 on a cold Christmas night becuz she hallucinated someone was after them. We have since adopted two children that would have been sold into human trafficking. They have blessed me more than I could bless them.
Is this formula safe for birds that feed in my lawn? Specifically, I have bluebirds that pick bugs out of the grass and feed their young.
I had not heard of the Great lime crisis but good to know. I don't use limes that much anyways.
I buy a lot of whatever organic items are on sale and then freeze them for later use. Especially with fruit in the summer... then I have it in my extra freezer all winter for pies, smoothies, etc. Works well for meat and pantry items also.
The Volunteer experience that had the deepest imact on me was at an Autism camp! Autism is everywhere today, and this experience working at the camp for a summer really opened my eyes! The autistic children and adults have to much to give and are so smart! Touched my heart for life!
Volunteering at a small hands-on kids' museum in my hometown during a college break was such a fulfilling and nostalgic experience for me. I didn't know it at the time, but it would lead me to a career in a similar setting a few years down the road!
Volunteering by fosterign dogs has the most impact. Knowing that I am helping dogs start there way on a good life and away from neglect and abuse makes me feel good
Collecting food and other goods to deliver to the needy. The joy and tears when we gave them the packages was amazing. They were so happy for the littlest things.
I volunteered during Christmas for the East Valley Boys Club of La Puente. I had complete strangers walk up and donate presents for club member’s, money, services for the club. This was possibly the most impactful experience in my life because not only did I realize how easy it was to make a difference, but it also showed me how open total strangers can be and how giving people are when you’re leading by example.
Being able to volunteer for Toys for Tots and seeing the happiness that something as small as a jumprope brought to a child was more impactful and educational for me on the importance of giving of both material thing and of yourself. The look on the children’s faces is something that won’t soon be forgotten.
I am a coach volunteer for one of my city’s youth basketball team’s. It’s a great experience to see the kid’s grow and improve throughout the season. It teaches them the importance of commitment and improvement through persistence and goal setting and it teaches me same by committing myself to continue to show up and help these kids grow.
I volunteer my time to babysit for local youth parents who need a few hours a day to go to school. Being the sister of a young mom and seeing the struggle to make time for studies, to watch the baby and work, it left me wanting to help. My nephew needs his mom to go to school to create a better future for him, but it isn’t just my nephew who needs a better future. There are many young parents in our communities who need those extra hours. It is my belief that contributing my extra hours to help these parents create a better future for his/ her child will ultimately lead to a better future for society as a whole.
I’m involved with kid’s camp, which is a program led by local Boys and Girls Clubs around the country. This is a program that allows low cost child care and academic assistance for parents who may not have the time or resources to look after their child’s academic improvement. I’m impacted by this on a daily basis when I see how surprised parents at their children’s improvement. A lot of the time parents who have a limited education themselves might not know how to help. That’s where I come in as well as the other volunteers who contribute their time to help run this program.
Such a wonderful thing you do and a great way to bring people together in support of others.
Such wonderful lessons you learned! Thank you for sharing those with us!
One Christmas, rather than spending the holiday in my usual way, I decided to spend it volunteering at a local Humane Society shelter. The experience was profound for me in several ways. First, I saw the selflessness of the people who were regular volunteers, and of those who made their career caring for these neglected, mistreated, or abandoned animals. Also, I saw what a need there was to share of one's time and heart in a meaningful way on one of the days that most honors selflessness and love. Finally, I learned to view volunteering as something not to be woven into my normal day-to-day schedule, but something that deserved as firm a place in my life as most any other undertaking.
volunteering near ground zero at a relief station near bowling green...this was November 2001, just a couple of months after the attack...i helped rescue workers with all sorts of food, dry socks, steel toed boots, etc...it was overwhelming and intense but historic.
I worked with kids in a homeless shelter during the summer. It was so rewarding to take the kids on field trips, help them read, and do arts and crafts. They taught me so much!!
I have volunteered in a number of my community organizations including my church, food bank, hospital and children's schools. My most impactful volunteering experience is making Prayer Quilts for the Prayers and Squares Quilt Ministry. A hand made prayer quilt can be given to someone experiencing an emotional, physical or spiritual needs. Heavy threads are woven into the quilt and then a community comes together and "ties" the prayers into the quilt. To date, I have made over forty quilts. Hundreds of people have tied prayers into the quilts. The most recent quilt I made was given to the son of our local mail lady. Christopher was in a horrific car accident. The prayer quilt brought our neighborhood together in prayer to support this young man and his family. We recruited people at our neighborhood BBQ, Bible Study and that we encountered to tie a knot and say a prayer. This ministry allows we to do something that I love, make quilts, and allows me to turn my own feelings of sadness, despair or hope into something tangible.
Thank you so much for posting this along with suggestions! I just graduated college and am trying to get my feet wet in freelancing. Unfortunately, not knowing where to turn, I've started out with the bidding sites. Before beginning on oDesk, I perfected my profile - overview, several relevant tests with great scores, schooling, a modest hourly rate, etc. The only thing missing were portfolio pieces. I landed one job that earned me $20 and the contract ended unexpectedly a week later. The last three jobs I've been offered ALL disguised themselves as good, hourly paying jobs, with the client then privately offering measly fixed prices that, in the end, they can get away with not paying. In one case, the pay would have equated to $1.30 an hour! One job was to pose as a fan and post comments on a business' Facebook Page and the other was to use my personal Amazon account to mass copy and paste reviews about products into the comments sections. Unreal. I'd rather pull my hair out out of boredom than do something shady I don't believe in, and for peanuts.
For five years I volunteered to work with dogs at our local animal shelter. I own three dogs, but still enjoyed working with such a wide variety of good dogs of different breeds. It's a great experience for anyone who loves animals.