How to be a GREAT volunteer
By: Meg Brook, VFP Executive Dir and lifelong volunteer Recently I was invited to be part of a panel at Dartmouth College called "Volunteering in the Developing World: Who Helps Whom?" The final question of the night was "How to be a great volunteer" or "How to have a great volunteer experience." My list included: Slow down! Celebrate the little things. Allow yourself to feel and acknowledge what your mind and body are telling you about the experience. Be fully present where you are. Change your routine, try new foods, laugh...
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2012 Scholarship Series:Archer Greenhalgh
I’ve always enjoyed the feeling that service brings to me. Throughout my life, I’ve done many small acts of service whether it be shoveling the snow out of a neighbor’s driveway or mowing the lawn of man whose wife recently passed away. When I began researching service programs in foreign countries, I realized that I haven’t really done anything that substantial in the way of service which only further fueled my desire to go. I decided to lay out all my skills and figure out what I could do to serve others using them. After weeks of planning, using my knowledge in HTML web-design, I came up with an idea for a website that offered entertainment to those that visited it while at the same time raised money for charity.
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