Any ideas what i should do? Something small that only takes about a month or less and that can be done individually- this is for membership in National Honor Society...
2007-12-17 01:31:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
Well actually, I have been volunteering at a hospital only for my own motives and pleasure but the hospital closed down--
2007-12-17 10:53:31 · update #1
Volunteer at a nursing home.
2007-12-17 01:34:22 · answer #1 · answered by officer uggh 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If you don't really care about any specific need, then don't get involved and start something you won't finish. If you volunteer at a nursing home or hospital, at a homeless shelter or library, it's going to take more time to train you than the organization can benefit from. So, you would be using them to help yourself instead of you helping them. Does this make sense?
If you want to do something valuable, then find something you enjoy and continue it even after you get into the National Honor Society. THAT, my young friend, will show true character and not just show that you met a random requirement. (This attitude is actually not what volunteering is about, in case you haven't understood that yet.)
However, you asked for ideas. Here are some short term ones that will help someone, but you won't leave a "hole" when you get inducted into NHS and don't need to volunteer any more.
Talk to the United Way office. They often have short term projects for groups or individuals. These range from building a wheel-chair ramp for the home of a senior citizen to painting and/or repairing the home of someone who needs assistance.
Visit the local librarian or post office and see if you can clean up the landscaping for them. Get a street number kit and offer to paint new numbers on the curbs for free. Hold a food drive for the local food pantry. Collect blankets for a local shelter. Volunteer to spruce up a local public area such as a park. Collect used cell phones for donation to a project that benefits abused spouses. Build a website for a non-profit. (You'll need to offer to help maintain this website for a period of time.) Volunteer at your church. Organize a blood drive. Get involved in a political campaign.
I'm hoping you get "hooked" and realize you are getting more out of volunteering than you are giving. THAT's when it's worth giving.
2007-12-17 10:15:20 · answer #2 · answered by Woods 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You should do what interests you -- either the work should be of interest or the organization's mission should be something you care about.
VolunteerMatch (http://www.volunteermatch.org), Idealist (http://www.idealist.org) and CraigsList (http://www.craigslist.com) all list volunteering opportunities with thousands of organizations,. There's also this government sponsored site (http://volunteer.gov/gov/) which provides volunteer positions through USA federal land agencies like Fish & Wildlife, Forest Service, National Parks, etc. Also, contact your local volunteer center; you can find this via the Points of Light Foundation web site (http://www.pointsoflight.org/centers/).
2007-12-18 08:36:33 · answer #3 · answered by Jayne says READ MORE BOOKS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since it seems that you are scholastically endowed you could do your project to help other students. I would suggest you ask a member of your local Board Of Education for a project. If you can't wait for a BOE meeting email those members and they can probably line you up with a school in need of some help.
2007-12-17 10:05:43 · answer #4 · answered by brendan- da man and da myth 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
www.thepencilproject.com
2007-12-17 22:16:18 · answer #5 · answered by itsallgood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋