Holley Klein

“The only gift is a portion of thyself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Volunteers are individuals who reach out beyond the confines of their paid employment and of their normal

responsibilities to contribute time and service to a not-for-profit cause in the belief that their activity is beneficial to others as well as satisfying to themselves.” (Taking

Volunteerism into the 21st Century, American Red Cross)

Reason for Volunteering

• To Help Others less Fortunate than

Myself• Build bonds with my

son and family• Enhance my resume• Give those in need

new resources• Empowerment to

both volunteer and recipient

• “Pay it Forward”• Build Self Esteem• Build Leadership

Skills• Better Use of My

Time• Gain Work

Experience• Build Self Worth• Meet New People• Show my son Value

of Volunteering

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

Booker T. Washington

Personal Characteristics• Compassionate• Enjoyment of Helping

Others• Good Teaching Skills• Good Communicator• Searching for Personal

Growth• Resourcefulness• Likes a challenge and

hard work• Love my community• Creative• Disciplined• Efficient• Going the Extra Mile• Enhancing Leadership

role and techniques• Modest and Humble• Loves New Opportunity• Trust Worthy• Likes Team Work

“Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather

than depressed.”

Gerald Jamplosky

Things to Consider

• Establish how much time I can give

• Research the needs in the community

• Set clear SMART goals and expectations

• Explore Possibilities• Share and Recruit others• Explore family volunteer

opportunities

Volunteer as a Family• Helps families learn about social

issues • Provides new perspective on the

world• Passes on family values

• Provide a positive role model• Provides quality time for the family

to spend together• Increase interpersonal

communication• Improves problem solving within

family

Why Children Should Volunteer

• Enhances Development• Promotes a healthy

lifestyle• Teaches social

responsibility• Creates lifelong ethic of

service• Improves the community

“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things,

event if we do not get anything in return. It is the

joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire,

there is a kindness in everything we think, say, want,

and do.” Emanuel Swedenborg

Places to Volunteer• RACCAP –

Rappahannock Area Council of Children and Parents

• Share• Mental Health

America of Fredericksburg

• The Child Support Link

• Kids Care Club

• The Rappahannock Regional Library

Rappahannock Area Council of Children and Parents

Mission To promote positive parenting and to

prevent child abuse and neglect in the Rappahannock Area Community, which includes: Caroline County, City

of Fredericksburg, King George County, Orange County, Spotsylvania

County and Stafford County

www.raccap.org

SHARE Volunteer service is the heart of SHARE’s network. SHARE participants perform at least two hours of volunteer service monthly to strengthen their own community. Therefore, every person that participates with SHARE is a volunteer.

“There is no better exercise for your heart, then reaching down and helping to lift someone up.” Bernard Meltzer

MissionFor $20 plus 2 hours of volunteer service,

anyone one may receive a SHARE

package full of fresh vegetables, fruits, staple items and

frozen meats. The same amount of food

would cost approximately $40-

$45 at the supermarket. With SHARE, participants can save 50% - 60% on their groceries.

www.sharedc.org

Mental Health America of Fredericksburg

Mission

The Seniors Visitors

Program is a supportive

service program… that

promotes independence,

dignity and healthy living

for older adults in their own

home environment

“No act of kindness, no matter how

small, is ever wasted.” Aesop

www.mhafred.org/senior_visitors_files/index.html

The Child Support

Link

* Child Support Economics Education Program

*Uninsured Children’s Program

* Housing Education Program

* Food Program* Christmas 911

* School Days 911Phone 540-424-0917

* Website under construction

MissionTo reduce child

poverty, homelessness, and hunger caused by non payment of

child support

“A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass

as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for

someone who might be thirsty.” G. Donald

Gale

Kids Care Club

MissionDevelop compassion and to inspire a spirit of service in

elementary and middle school age youth

www.kidscare.org“Only when we give joyfully, without

hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.” Leo Buscaglia

Rappahannock Regional Library

Mission

- provide library resources and

services necessary to meet the

evolving educational,

recreational, and informational needs of the public, thus

enhancing individual and community life

www.librarypoint.org

“We are prone to judge success by the index of our

salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the

quality of our service relationship

to humanity.” Martin Luther King,

Jr.

Designed by Holley KleinThis is one of my goals for the next session to enhance not only my education but my personal and family life as well. But doing this power point gave me the specific objectives to work towards for the next session of classes. It gives me direction and step by step “slides” to better manage my time. I like being creative in the way I develop goals and this was my first power point ever attempted. So I met one goal of experimenting with power point and at the same time met another by establishing a guideline to meet another goal.

“The influence of a beautiful, helpful

character is contagious, and may revolutionize a

whole town.” Collier Graham