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 THE GOOD NEIGHBOR TOOL KIT: GETTING STARTED cont.

  

Why Volunteer?

Getting Started

Improving Your Community

Improving Yourself as a Volunteer

Fundraising

Working with Volunteers

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Directory: Links to Charitable Organizations		   Match Your Skills to Your Volunteer Potential
Many of us have skills or interests that enable us to give something more than our time. Ask yourself what you might offer.

Your Skill Related Volunteering Options
Arts and crafts · Teach activities at a senior center or handicapped facility.
· Teach at an after-school program.
· Make gifts for a charity sale or thrift shop.
Accounting/bookkeeping/tax preparation · Audit books/prepare taxes for charities.
· Give seminars in finance for the homeless, new immigrants, single parents.
Computers/website design · Teach people new job skills.
· Offer to design a site for your favorite charity.
· Better yet, offer to maintain and update it as needed.
· Offer to set up an e-newsletter or discussion group forum.
Cooking · Cook at a soup kitchen.
· Train single parents or teen mothers to cook.
Foreign language fluency · Teach English as a second language.
· Advocate for illegal immigrants.
· Translate (at schools, banks, lawyer's offices) for immigrants who are trying to get established.
Gardening · Plant gardens in poor neighborhoods or your own town center.
· Care for local parks.
· Start a plant a tree program for the environment.
· Organize a garden walk fundraiser.
Good with animals · Be a zoo docent.
· Offer to walk the dogs or clean up at an animal shelter.
· Run a drive for newspapers, towels, and toys for a local shelter.
· Raise puppies that will be trained as seeing-eye dogs.
Graphic design · Design and create brochures, flyers, websites.
· Design signs to publicize upcoming events.
Handyman skills--carpentry, electrical, plumbing · Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.
· Repair homes of seniors in your area.
· Build a playground.
· Repaint a school, church, or community center.
Legal background · Represent foster or abused children in court proceedings.
· Offer legal advice to poor.
Marketing/promotion · Develop proposals or solicitation letters for charities.
· Solicit volunteers.
· Write press releases for charities advertising upcoming events.
· Write copy for brochures or websites.
Music · Teach guitar or drums to troubled teens.
· Teach at a school with an under-funded music program.
· Perform at senior centers, handicapped facilities.
· Volunteer at an after-school program.
· Teach at a charitable summer camp for the handicapped, troubled youth.
· Usher or sell tickets at a concert hall.
Photography · Take photos at charitable events to use for publicity.
· Take group photos and staged photos for use in brochures and other promotions.
Public speaking · Emcee charity events.
· Be interviewed by the media on charity events and funding needs.
Sports · Coach summer or after-school kids' sports.
· Organize a sports-related fundraiser (tennis tournament, sponsored 10K race, bike-a-thon).
· Teach at a charitable summer camp for the handicapped or troubled youth.
Teaching · Become a literacy tutor.
· Read on tape for the blind or to the elderly.
· Work with mentally handicapped individuals if your background is in special education.
· Be a teacher's aid at an under-funded school.









































































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