I do a lot of things for my church which branches out to many facets.

Thanks for posting this. I used to spend so much of my time volunteering, but in the past few years I've gotten out of it after my kids graduated high school.

When my kids were growing up I was the poinsettia and cookie chairs with the Girl Scouts, sold pop corn for the Boy Scouts, ran the concession stand for the high school swim team, and took care of the registration and finances for the annual spaghetti dinner at the school. I also was on the church Finance Committee and was the treasurer for a professional organization. Whew!

Our city has a United Way web site with lots of volunteer opportunities that can be ongoing or one-time. The variety is endless and the need is great everywhere. Our family has volunteered for animal shelters by helping with adoption fairs. My son has worked at the local food pantry. They are always in need of help. My boss does lots of work with the Boys and Girls Club and finds that very rewarding. I've always thought about volunteering for an adult literacy program or as an after-school tutor.

Homeless shelters and women shelters. This day and age with money problems for most of us, it is a blessing to help out at these shelters.

When I can, Salvation Army soup kitchen. It is small enough to do for all the blessings I've been given.

When I can, Salvation Army soup kitchen. It is small enough to do for all the blessings I've been given.

I used to volunteer for a towns special olympics in wisconsin. I loved doing it. Wish I was still doing it since they are always in need for volunteers

I volunteer at Peggy Notebaert Nature Musuem; it is all about our natural local resources, which are dwindling, and how we can conserve and preserve our prairies. I also give tours and answer questions re: our Buttlerfly Haven, and other revolving exhibits. My Grandchildren and I go to the Museum's Special Events and Exhibits associated with Eco-Systems as part of non-proft organizations' two to three day events held all over our beautiful City. Sometimes, we show the Spitting Cockroaches of the Rain Forest as well as Giant Centipedes and many, many other important and interesting(and sometimes "icky" insects/bugs to show how they play their part in the important job of saving our planet. The "icky" ones most times scare adults, but not kids. We also inform the public of our "best deal of museums in the City" by asking them to consider Membership; it is VERY AFFORDABLE TO EVERYONE, honestly!
In Spring, we plant the seeds of Prairie plants that we picked/saved from Autum's Harvest of the same...to keep our Eco-System going.

i do a LOT of charity work. always did.

at the present time i run an spca foster and adopt program after work. there is generally about twenty of us each year. around ten of us that do it every year and another ten that do it as a once in a lifetime thing or take in maybe ONE cat every other year. but its still one more than everyone else out there. we foster animals in our homes. we rarely cage anything. we use bathrooms and screened in porches for them. some people use an enclosed garage or wood shed with a/c or heat in it. all kinds of things. we adopt out around 100 animals per year taking in orphaned kittens that need bottlefeeding, pregnant mom cats and then her babies too, sick or injured animals, emaciated strays, feral/colony cats that finally become friendly enough for adoption. we have been doing this for NINE years and have adopted out 900 animals. we have some leftovers who are returned or simply rather live outdoors, but our colonies are verrrrry small. most of the animals find what appear to be permanent homes. i hope they really are!!! we charge people $30 LESS than what it costs us to spay and neuter them etc., so the entire venture is at a loss. occasionally we get in pure bred animals and charge more for those and it helps with costs. we have never become a 501 which would allow us to put out mailers for donations. because the economy is so bad, its the next thing we will have to do; that and buy acreage i would guess. mostly, i would like my next step to be working in washington d.c. to add a $1 tax that would cover animals, making it mandatory and FREE spay and neuter. i would also like to see all feed farms and meat eating BANNED worldwide. we are all animals. eating an animal is cannibalism.

i promote girl and boy scouting troops and memberhip at church youth groups (which is basically free) and the fresh air fund which is out of new york city and sends inner city youth to camp in the mountains in the summer time. inner city children are DESPARATE for all of the above!! i attend church functions that make money for the church and the charities the church is involved in including their private grammar school.

before this i promoted donations for abused women and children and encouraging big brother/big sister. the biggest projects back then was building townhome/condo developments for people who normally would not qualify for any kind of mortgage at all. we owner financed. the criteria for the owner finance was a current one year lease at an ordinary rental and the equivalent of a year of full time employment at minimum wage or better (on the books of course). we always had a wait list. the townhomes also came with a basic economy new car ford or mazda which was financed in with the house. you can't get to work without a good running car. we also offered work if the person was short on their mortgage. we did not keep the mortgages that long though, they were sold after a couple of years to make space for the next set of 100 people. habitat for humanity is actually a better wholesale houser than we were and help more people than we did. THEY are HUGE!! former u.s. president jimmy carter is involved in that.

going back even further, i had opened a village for disabled people - the village was completely handicapped accessible. that was in the mid-80's. acquiring loans for all of these ventures was very difficult, but it got done. i became involved in all of that because i discovered there was no place for handicapped people to live. two year wait lists....i discovered recently that disabled people are still WAIT LISTED for a couple of YEARS in south florida. amazing because in north florida there is an ABUNDANCE of assisted living and most places up here are half full.

Do things in the church. help the homeless.and people that fall short with their finances help with food and personal things.

MY HUSBAND AND I USED TO VOLUNTEER AT A PLACE CALLED HIDDEN TREASURES. IT'S AFFILIATED WITH OUR CHURCH- CALLED CHURCH ON THE ROCK. IT'S A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO TO IF THEY GET BURNED OUT OR ARE STARTING OVER CAN COME AND GET THINGS. WE GET THINGS DONATEDTO US AND PEOPLE CAN GET WHAT THEY NEED FOR A DONATION OR IF THEY CAN'T AFFORD ONE WE JUST GIVE IT THEM. IT'S LIKE A SALVATION ARMY EXCEPT WE GO BY DONATIONS. MY HUSBAND RAN IT FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS AND I HELPED HIM. WE DON'T DO IT ANYMORE BECAUSE OF HIS HEALTH. REALLY ANYONE CAN GO THERE AND SHOP. WE USED TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AND MET A LOT OF NICE PEOPLE.

we have a church on the rock over here, i wonder if it the same church?

I just do alot of small community things, especially when I was in HS cause of my clubs. (Just graduated) Like hosting local BBQ competitions, cleaning up the community and creak, etc. I give blood every year and even saved a man's son the first time I did it.. I also volunteered at a local animal shelter, but haven't this year. Hopefully when I move to Vermont for college I'll get more actively involved because I love doing charity work.

I have helped my church with their LoveLoud program. My group helped a family with their house.

I volunteered at my children's school for 10 years, doing everything from hot lunches, fund raisers, yard duty monititor....etc.

I just resigned my volunteer position with the blood donor clinic.....I am on oxygen and the hose was starting to be a safety issue......there were six of us on that shift so I left them with lots of help. I am going to miss it!

I volunteer at my church, Al-Anon Family Groups, Family Promise, and here on DS. I also pick up litter when I see it. I have a lot to pay back, and I try not to miss a chance to "pass it on". I am not fooling myself: When I think I am "giving it away", that is when I am "getting it".