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After Election, More New Yorkers Tell Volunteer Groups, ‘I Can Help’
New York Cares reported a 137 percent increase in would-be volunteers just in the week after the election, compared with the same week in November 2015....
The national report said volunteers tended to be people who were older, native-born English speakers and college-educated, and owned their own homes and had higher incomes.
That describes me. I have done volunteer work off and on since HS. Nothing major in my case. I have done things like help kids with reading and school work when I was in college. I read to seniors. My wife voluntered holding babies, so they could feel human touch, if they were to be otherwise with out it for a time. We both also would donate blood. Its makes you feel good. Everyone can do something, even if only a few weeks every few years.
That describes me. I have done volunteer work off and on since HS. Nothing major in my case. I have done things like help kids with reading and school work when I was in college. I read to seniors. My wife voluntered holding babies, so they could feel human touch, if they were to be otherwise with out it for a time. We both also would donate blood. Its makes you feel good. Everyone can do something, even if only a few weeks every few years.
That's nice. I've mostly volunteers for arts groups. I also investigated volunteering to read to children in hospitals and to be in a literacy program, but their requirements were so problematic that I gave up on those.
The thing that surprised me most in the article was that some people gave as a reason for not volunteering, that nobody asked! With so much going on, and with so much information about volunteering in the news - someone needs to be personally asked?
I would like to volunteer at a tidday massage clinic. Any clinics in Manhattan?
Let's say if i were to receive a tax deductible for volunteering i would be all over it.
Also, depending on the volunteer agency it is a great way to network
God's Love We Deliver is a great agency to network. They renovated their building to a $28 million building design by Michael Kors. A lot of big corporations volunteer their employees there.
I have volunteered in New York City before at a few places including NY Cares.
I have been to soup kitchens in NYC before. They are not so fun. The volunteers who serve food are often extremely nervous.
I read that rich people do not volunteer. Their reasoning has something to do with the concept of avoid damaged people, because damaged people damage other people.
I would like to volunteer at a tidday massage clinic. Any clinics in Manhattan?
Let's say if i were to receive a tax deductible for volunteering i would be all over it.
Also, depending on the volunteer agency it is a great way to network
You do know that volunteering is not suppose to be about you right?
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