Get Involved

Why

Make important networking contacts
Learn or develop skills
Teach your skills to others
Enhance your resume
Gain work experience
Build self-esteem and selfconfidence
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
Improves the likelihood you're your children will volunteer as an adult

What

Volunteer to help (Hospital, ...
Some jobs are: dog walker for your local animal shelter; read to the elderly at retirement homes; sort food at the food bank; Become an EMT; help at a historical society; Tour guide for historical landmark;
Make a change for the better
Environmental issues,

Local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even when we truly care.
Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy | TED Talk

Links:
ways to get involved in the community - Google Search
Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy | TED Talk | TED.com

last updated 4 Feb 2016