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Benefits of Volunteering
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
Volunteer Viewpoints
I’ve been raised with the view that there are things greater than self—one of them being community. I’ve always tried to stay true to that principle.
Carlos Marquez
San Diego, California
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