A Chance to Weave Volunteering into your life
If you follow our "Crazy Busy" posts, you know it’s possible to do good even if you don’t have a ton of time to spare.
This weekend, thanks to the uber-coordinating efforts of Hands On Charlotte, my family and I volunteered at East Meck High School to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr Day. Along with scores of other volunteers we made bookmarks, tied reading “snuggle” blankets, wrote letters to first graders and made heart-shaped valentines for nursing home residents. It was a well-spent Saturday morning.
Of course, not every opportunity to help is quite so easy to weave into your daily life. But the short term, “crazy busy” opportunities are often a great way to try out a lot of different organizations to see where your heart fits. You can find them throughout this blog, or just search our Collection of Good for something that works really well for you and your schedule.
Fans and supporters of the local nonprofit Promising Pages might have recognized some of the activities we did on Saturday, like book marks and reading blankets. Promising Pages provides books as wrapped presents to children in the greater Charlotte area growing up with few, if any age-appropriate books at home. Their volunteer activities are often family-friendly, and in fact they have a Public Volunteer Day coming up on February 21st that's perfect for kids (with adult supervision). Get the details, find out if it's a date you can weave into your schedule...and then jump in! ------- Kimberly