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6 Ways To Make Volunteering More Fun

Monday, January 31st, 2011

We loved seeing the 66% increase in people choosing “The Dreaded Stairs” over the escalator after the stairs were made more fun in this video.

It got us thinking… if we made a conscious effort to make our volunteer projects more enjoyable for volunteers, would we see a 66% increase in the number of volunteers who return to the project the next time it occurs?

Seems like a theory worth looking into, right?!

Here are a few ways to make your volunteer project more fun:

1.  Foster Introductions.  Most of us enjoy meeting new people.  Consider starting the project with an activity that introduces your volunteers to at least one new person.  Try adding an ice breaking activity to the opening moments of your project.

2.  Play Music.  If your project involves physical activity, like landscaping or painting, consider adding a soundtrack!  Imagine your volunteer crew singing along and / or adding dance moves to the day.  What fun!

3.  Break Bread. Consider taking a break for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack.  People connect with each other at meal times.  If you don’t have the budget to provide refreshment, try making the project a potluck.

4.  Create Conversation. We humans love to connect with one another.  Consider building in a closing conversation where your volunteers can discuss the difference they made, concerns they may have and next steps they’d like to take.  (We know it sounds serious – but it really is fun!)  You can find ideas for building group reflection into your project here and here .

5.  Make Memories.  Take photos and / or video of your volunteers at work and share the results on Twitter and Facebook.  Your volunteers will have fun commenting on the memories made.

6.  Celebrate! Consider closing your project with a celebration of the accomplishments your volunteers made.  This could be a celebration at the project site or a meet up at a local restaurant afterward.

Enjoy!

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Day of Service Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Today’s post originally appeared on the HandsOn Jacksonville Blog on January 26, 2011.

HandsOn Jacksonville and the Teacher Supply Depot hosted a day of family fun and volunteering on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  Grown ups and kids alike had fun painting flower pots for seniors and making recyclable bags for beach cleanups.  There were craft stations set up all over the old school which houses the supply depot, including doll and bracelet making.

The Teacher’s Supply Depot is a nonprofit that gathers donated goods and hosts give-aways for district schools. Teachers, principals and PTAs can come get paper, educational material, art supplies and much more for free!

The entire building is full of amazing supplies with a room dedicated just for crafts and ideas for projects posted on the bulletin boards. It’s hard not to get inspired to create something while walking through the halls.

After the pictures were painted and crafts were made the History Channel’s documentary film King was shown in honor of MLK Jr. Day because even though everyone had fun painting, gluing and crafting it was good to remember why we were there. The legacy of Dr. King inspires us to do something GOOD every chance we get and there’s no harm in having a little fun while we’re at it, right?

Today’s post was written by Emilee Speck, an intern for HandsOn Jacksonville and journalism major at the University of North Florida.  To find out more about HandsOn Jacksonville, please visit their website.

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Make the Most of Every Opportunity

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Today’s post comes from Anna Hoyt, an AmeriCorps VISTA serving with the C4 Network.

When I think about all the meaningful phrases, quotes, and challenges that I have heard in my life so far, I’m not exactly at a loss for material. I like to read inspiring books, attend seminars, listen to podcasts, and spend time with wise people who have lived longer than I have in hopes of gaining greater insight on this thing called life.

You could say I’m a personal development junkie. With all this great wisdom being poured into my life, you might expect me to give you dozens of meaningful one-liners, right? Well, not today. I just want to share one which has made a significant change for the better in my life. I read this in a book many years ago, and my parents would also say it to me growing up as a kid; “Make the most of every opportunity.”

I had a chance to put this principle into play recently on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The plan for my day was to participate in a service project with a local organization that included cleaning up an area of the city and doing various projects outdoors with a group of over 1,000 individuals.

I was so excited to participate in an MLK Day service project for the first time in my life. Unfortunately, the plan for the day quickly changed when the phone rang, as I was at home getting ready on the morning of MLK Day. I heard the unwelcomed news that due to flooding in the region, the service project was cancelled. My eager and hopeful mindset shifted in about 30 seconds.

I then recalled this powerful challenge I have lived by for many years now, make the most of every opportunity. This was not going to be a wasted day, or a day off for me.

I resolved to find a way to utilize my resources to make the day of service successful. Through the network that HandsOn and AmeriCorps provide, I was able to call up another AmeriCorps member serving in another part of the Seattle area who was coordinating a completely different project. She invited me to join in her effort to clean transitional homes for AIDS victims moving from the crisis of homelessness to self-sufficiency through a local organization. I had an incredible day serving alongside fellow community members and sharing in a great day of service to honor Martin Luther King Jr. What could have been a very discouraging day resulted in a new opportunity to partner with others and make a real impact in our community.

I’ve learned that the challenge to make the most of every opportunity can be a statement that you read once and never think about again; or it could be something more.

It could become the way you live.

Instead of looking at a frustrating coworker as a hindrance to our workday, we can start seeing it as a chance to learn to live based on the virtue that we ought to be kind rather than act how we feel. Rather than viewing our packed schedule as busy, we can see that we have the opportunity to learn how to create healthy boundaries. Instead of looking at the devastating economic challenges of our neighbors who have no home as someone else’s problem, we can see them as an opportunity to make a difference ourselves and get involved.

Whatever opportunities you are given are yours to do with what you choose. My advice. Make something great of what you have. You don’t know if you’ll get another chance just like it again. Each day. Each opportunity. Make it count. Make it a win for others, and it will be a win for everyone.

Anna serves as an AmeriCorps VISTA member through the HandsOn Network with an organization called The C4 Group. She bases out of Seattle, but works nationally to implement a community engagement model called The Care Strategy in five different cities across the United States, by partnering with five other AmeriCorps VISTA members who serve in various faith based organizations.

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Eight Tips For Writing the Perfect Thank You Note

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

volunteer, volunteering, volunteerism, thank youYou’ve thanked the volunteers that serve with your organization, right?  Thanking them when they’re serving is important, but it’s also important to show them that their service is important even when they’re not serving.  A thank you note sent to a volunteer at their home is a great reminder that they’re an important part of the organization.  Here are eight tips for writing personal thank you notes to your volunteers:

1)      Focus on the volunteer.

Before you write the thank you note, try writing the volunteer’s address on the envelope and write it out by hand.  As you’re writing their address, think about your relationship to the volunteer; think about where they’re living and how they’re serving.  It will help you to write an individual message for that volunteer

2)      Write the note by hand.

Unless the number of volunteers your organization has makes writing a thank you note by hand unfeasible, take the extra time to write the note out by hand.  A hand written note will mean more to your volunteers and shows that you’ve taken the time to focus on each volunteer specifically.

3)      Talk about the volunteer’s service directly.

When you’re thanking your volunteer for their service, include a note about something that the volunteer has done.  Whether it’s figuring out a new way to do something, making sure that the people they work with are always smiling, or being the only one that can figure out how to make the copier stop squeaking, be sure to draw attention to it.

4)      Talk about how the volunteer’s service is changing or improving the organization

If the new way of doing something improves the office work flow, tell the volunteer how many hours the improvement saves over the course of a year.  If the volunteer helps to buoy everyone’s spirits, tell the volunteer how their presence makes everyone’s day a little easier to get through.

5)      Try writing a draft before writing out a thank you card.

Your writing will get a little bit better with each draft.  You can keep an early version of the thank you note in the volunteer’s file where it can serve as a reminder of the great work they’ve done for your organization.

6)      Keep it simple.

Your thank you note doesn’t have to be a complicated and involved.  It doesn’t have to be a Presidential address.  It can be two or three lines, simply written that come from the heart.  Pretty words are great when you’re trying to charm someone, but meaningful words are more important when you’re trying to thank them.

7)      Think of how your organization can serve the volunteer better.

If there is something that your organization can do to make the volunteer’s work easier to do, mention that you’re trying to make those things happen.  Whether it’s a brighter desk lamp, more thorough trainings, or simply involving the volunteers more in the day-to-day operation of your organization, let the volunteers know that you’re willing to support them and the work that they do as much as they support you and your organization.

8)      Write a lot of thank you notes.

If you’re not used to writing thank you notes to your volunteers, write a lot of them.  It will get easier, and you’ll get better at it.  Remember, you can never say thank you too many times.

What are some of the ways that you’ve said thank you to the volunteers you work with?  Let us know about the awesome ways of showing your volunteers that you appreciate them – whether it’s high fives in the hallways or winter wellness kits full of tissues and vitamin c.  Let us know in the comments!

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National Thank Your Mentor Day

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

The month of January is National Mentoring Month.  Today, January 25th, is National Thank Your Mentor Day.

We asked our staff who their mentors were and were moved by the memories they shared about their mentors.

Kellie Bentz, Director, Disaster Services

Leslie took me under her wing as one of her mentees in her mentee group made up of other young professional women leaders in New Orleans. She has consistently supported me since that point by talking  me through personal struggles, work struggles and has gone out of her way to ensure she makes time for me even when she has prior commitments. I feel truly blessed to have someone as committed to my personal and professional growth as she has been.

PJ is a very memorable mentor. He is the reason I landed in New Orleans. He saw something inside of me I could not and kept on believing in me. PJ has consistently challenged me in ways that have frustrated me and other ways that have helped create more joy in my life. While we aren’t as in frequent communication as we once were, he is always there when I need to pick up the phone and ask advice.

My father is one of the most instrumental mentors in my life. I can consistently count on him to answer his phone and give me the advice or words I need to hear at that moment. Everything from gender differences in the work place to developing business plans he has been there to talk me through and give advice. I continue to be amazed by his general grounding nature and ability to look at everything in a positive light…he never lets me dwell in negativity…one of my favorite sayings of his is “smile and the world will smile with you” …I am blessed to have my father in my life to help me continue grow personally and professionally. I realize now how unique it is to have my father as one of my greatest mentors and for that I am blessed.

Megan Motlagh, Office Volunteer

I don’t remember exactly how I felt on my first day of kindergarten—excitement or anxiety, bravery or fear of the great academic unknown—but I do know one thing now, very well. I know that I cannot thank my kindergarten teacher enough for the wonderful foundation she built for the rest of my academic career. Ms. Toni McCray was knowledgeable and nurturing, and beyond her position as a kindergarten teacher, a wonderful and valuable mentor. She encouraged an environment steeped in appreciation and understanding of the value of learning and of my fellow classmates, a classroom where even the softest six-year-old voice (I admit, this was me) was heard and respected.

I will never forget the impact she had on my education and on me as a person; I visited her classroom every year (give or take a year or two) afterward for twenty years, up until her retirement last year. While the chairs I sat in those twenty years ago got smaller every year, my gratitude for all that my kindergarten teacher had instilled in me in that very first year of school has grown exponentially. Thank you for being one of the most valuable mentors I’ve ever had, Ms. McCray.

Meridith Rentz, Chief Operating Officer

My mentor, Rick Smith, “adopted me” as a mentee over 15 years ago, and even though we no longer work directly together, he’s always one of the first people I talk to when I need advice or grounding or even just a good “talking to”.  There are three main things Rick taught me that I use pretty much every single day:  1) how to take a super-duper complex problem that seems impossible and break it down into “doable pieces”; 2) how to challenge, support, push and develop the people on your team; and 3) family and friends always, always come first….no matter how important your job is.  He also taught me how to sail – but I don’t get to do that every day!  When I mentor others, my personal goal is simple – “be like Rick Smith”.

Who is your mentor?

How have they influenced your life?

Write a tribute to your mentor at the Thank Your Mentor Day website.

You can find opportunities to be a mentor and have an impact on someone’s life at your local HandsOn Action Center.

Read more from Kellie Bentz:

Read more from Meridith Rentz:

  • My Resolution for 2011: Party Like A Rock Star At Work
  • 20 Reasons Why Volunteering Is Like Beer

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A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer’s Story, Part 3

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Today’s blog post comes from Perry Teicher, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Kazakhstan from 2007-2009.  This is the third of five posts about his Peace Corps service.  Be sure to read the first and second posts.

As my host organization, the “Society for the Protection of Paralyzed Citizens of Aktobe” started the Volunteer Club: DAR, I realized that there was very little national infrastructure for volunteerism development in Kazakhstan.  Individual organizations in cities across the country had begun to see the value formal volunteer structures can add to existing organizations.  A handful of organizations had started that utilized volunteerism as a tool of community and youth development.  In addition, a few organizations in the main cities had started with the goal of building a national volunteerism infrastructure.  Even before the financial crisis hit Kazakhstan, however, these organizations scaled back their activities, focusing primarily on Almaty (the economic center and former capital) and the nearby towns.  For a city, like Aktobe, 43 hours by train from that economic center, this was of minimal help.

I saw that this would be an excellent opportunity to serve as a catalyst for bringing together activists from across the country to focus specifically on practical steps and strategies of volunteerism development in Kazakhstan.  As a “developing country”, many international organizations have spent millions of dollars focused solely on volunteerism growth and produced copious amounts of manuals and trainings, designed to foster a spirit of community service in Kazakhstan.  Much of this work was successful, as evident by the number of organizations working on volunteerism throughout the country.  However, the national connectivity had fallen away, leaving no network for individuals and organizations focused on this sector to work together, share ideas and best practices, and learn from each other.

It seemed a nationwide opportunity for individuals and organizations involved in volunteerism development would be well-received.  Along with a team of local activists and Peace Corps Volunteers, we planned a conference on volunteerism development.  We began the process by conducting a survey of organizations working with volunteers or on volunteerism from across the country.  Before we devoted the time, energy, and resources to the conference, we wanted to be sure a need and desire existed.  After the survey, we developed three main goals for the seminar:

1)  Provide opportunity for organizations to share experiences in organizing volunteers and learn from each other

2)  Develop a handbook to communicate the lessons in the shared experience of conference attendees to other organizations and individuals

3)  Create a network to provide continued communication between organizations involved with volunteerism development in Kazakhstan

Five months later, we had over 60 participants from 30 organizations across Kazakhstan together in Almaty for an interactive and participant-led seminar on volunteerism development.  The conference was arranged in a mix of presentations and open format sessions, with the intent that participants could learn more from interaction with each other than from presenters giving speeches.  One part of this process was the division of participants into groups to write chapter of the handbook.  Following the conference, the initiative committee edited and published version one of the “Kazakhstan Volunteerism Handbook.”  The handbook was then distributed across Kazakhstan in hardcopy as well as an online and pdf version.

The handbook and seminar were never meant to be the final step in the process, but only the first part of a rebirth of volunteerism in Kazakhstan.  In the past year, the Kazakhstani government initiated a process to develop a national volunteerism strategy and invited members of this initiative group to consult and participate on the process.  In addition, a new version of the handbook is currently being compiled, to reflect the continuing changing dynamics of the volunteerism movement in Kazakhstan.

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Perry Teicher is the Repair the World Fellow, 2010-2011.  He served in Peace Corps Kazakhstan (2007-2009).  Feel free to e-mail him at .

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My Resolution for 2011: Party Like A Rock Star At Work

Friday, January 21st, 2011

By Meridith Rentz, COO, Points of Light Institute

My New Year’s resolution for 2011 is quite simple:  Each and every day I come to work at Points of Light Institute, I want to party like a rock star.

What a minute….say what?

Let me be more specific.  My goal for 2011 is to learn how to do my job with the same passion, unadulterated joy, focus, excellence and innovation that will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas demonstrates when he is doing his job – creating and performing extraordinary music.

Seriously?

Yep – I wanna’ be more like will.i.am in 2011. I wanna’ party like a rock star each day at work. 

You see, I recently had an unexpected opportunity to see will.i.am in action (3 rows back from his mixing board in fact).

I got to see will.i.am spinning and mixing and creating an extraordinary tapestry of songs for a relatively small crowd of several hundred people.  He was absolutely captivating to watch.

While he was certainly “performing” for the crowd, I believe the joy he demonstrated was 100% genuine and his work was deeply personally satisfying as he danced and sang and hovered over his mixing board on the stage for several hours.

Some might say that what he was doing as his “job” is not comparable to the average guy’s or gal’s regular office job.  I would respectfully and completely disagree.  There were a lot of reasons that will.i.am could have viewed this particular gig as “just another day at the office,” but he didn’t – he was having the time of his life up there doing what he loves to do – creating amazing, captivating music.

His delight in his work was contagious and as a result, the crowd had a blast.

So there you have it.  I wanna’ be more like will.i.am in 2011. I wanna’ party like a rock star each day at work.  I want to be innovative and have fun and I want the people I work with to have a blast – all while making a difference in the world and doing our jobs.

We in the nonprofit world can tend to take ourselves a bit too seriously….come on, you know it’s true.

We can get a bit too stressed and down-right depressed by the enormity of the social challenges we are called to take on each day.  We worry about having an impact and raising money and driving social innovation…..all very important things, don’t get me wrong.  But, as we wonder why our best people get burnt out or why we can’t attract the top talent to our extraordinary, mission-driven organizations or why we’re all just so darned tired much of the time, maybe,we need to try a new approach.

Let’s loosen up.

Let’s dance a little more.

Let’s be a little goofier.

Let’s sing loud, even if it’s not always on key.

Let’s laugh at ourselves and how gosh darn earnest we can be.

What’s the worst thing that can happen?

If I can get even a smidge more similar to will.i.am in doing my job, the upside is huge for me and for the people with whom I work and for our organizational mission.  I can have more fun doing something that I already love, and maybe a few other people will even want to join the party.

Wish me luck and rock on friends.

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Combining the Power of Music and Service to Honor Dr. King

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Today’s guest post comes from David Watterson, a consultant for Music National Service

The first song I ever learned on piano is Bill Withers’ classic soul hit, “.” I was eight years old and had never heard the original recording, but there was something about the chords and the lyrics printed on the sheet music that felt special to me. I played it over and over to memorize it. My Dad often tells stories about being woken up at 7:30 on Saturday mornings to the sound of me playing Lean On Me on our living room piano.

Some fifteen years later, Lean On Me is still one of my favorites, a song I often find myself returning to whenever I sit down at the piano. But this past Monday, the song took on a special new meaning for me. As part of the Martin Luther King National Day of Service, I joined Music National Service and Oakland School for the Arts in teaching Lean On Me to nearly 150 participants of all backgrounds – musicians and non-musicians, elementary through high school aged youth, and corporate volunteers from throughout the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area.

After learning the song in separate instrumental workshops throughout the day, all 150+ participants came together for one final performance. With over 20 people each on guitar, keyboard, and percussion, a horn section, and another 75 or so singing along, the sound was understandably huge. As a participant, the performance and the visual of seeing so many people singing and playing their hearts out was deeply inspiring and uplifting.

Lean On Me was a natural choice to feature. Besides the fact that it is fairly easy to teach and learn, it has an infectious groove and melody, and lyrics that capture the core of Dr. King’s life and message. Withers’ words , “Lean on me / When you’re not strong / And I’ll be your friend / I’ll help you carry on / For it won’t  be long / Til I’m going to need / Somebody to lean on,” so simply yet profoundly imagines Dr. King’s vision of the beloved community, in which fellow human beings love and care for each other as brothers and sisters.

As inspiring as the final performance was, the true magic and value in the event was not the product, but the process. The small but important interactions that occurred as we worked together to teach and learn this piece of art and music was the true reward. The willingness to embrace the struggle of learning something new, whether on piano or guitar, and allowing yourself to “lean on” somebody else’s leadership in learning it, is a uniquely valuable experience. It’s this engagement in creativity and community that music and art embodies that we should be looking at more seriously as a legitimate and powerful resource to soothe the hate and social fracturing that feels too common all around us. When we allow ourselves to come together through the universal experience of creativity and music, we are reminded that the things we have in common far exceed the barriers that superficially divide us.

For me, it was the process of teaching the five piano chords of Lean On Me to a young girl on Monday, that helped me remember what it was like for me at the same age when my own imagination was brought alive by the power of music.

Watterson is a proud alumnus of Berklee College of Music and City Year Chicago, where he served as an AmeriCorps member for two years. He currently works with Music National Service as part of his studies at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.

Music National Service is a nonprofit organization that supports music as a strategy for public good. For updates, follow them on and . A complete video of the event and final performance will be available online soon.

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Light the Civic Fires For Sargent Shriver

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Michelle NunnToday’s post comes from Michelle Nunn, CEO of Points of Light Institute.

Yesterday, an extraordinary civic hero passed away. Sargent Shriver, the Founder of the Peace Corps and Co-Founder of Special Olympics, changed the world and touched the lives of millions. With passion, dexterity, boldness, and idealism he set out to create institutions and movements to alleviate suffering, cultivate bonds of empathy and reciprocity across difference, and usher in a world where every individual realized their own unique potential. In reflecting upon his life, we are reminded in the most profound ways possible, the power of an individual to change the world.

I was at the University of Michigan a few months ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps.  At the event, Senator Harris Wofford told us the story of the agency’s founding. He shared how the idea was born of an improvisational interaction with President Kennedy and a group of students who took President Kennedy’s words and challenged him to turn rhetoric into reality. The students created a petition with 1,000 signatures asking the President to launch a program that called upon the nation’s young people to serve the world.

President Kennedy took note and asked Sargent Shriver and others to create a major policy proposal for what was, within 10 days, coined and framed as the Peace Corps. Harris told us that in the initial frenetic months of its foundation, Sargent Shriver was given a long memorandum that drew out a cautious and conservative approach to the incremental growth of the Peace Corps. Harris recounted that Sarge would give this memorandum to every person who came in to interview for the job and ask them their opinion of it. If they liked it and expressed approval for its safe and prudent approach, he politely dismissed them and continued to search for individuals who would reject caution and aspired to exponential growth and change.

As we consider the world before us and the sometimes seemingly insurmountable challenges, I hope that our dreams and actions are enlivened by Sargent Shriver’s spirit of boldness and expansive innovation. Movements are built over the generations and I believe that we truly are, after 50 years, on the precipice of a vision that Sargent Shriver and President Kennedy and the thousands of grassroots students originally envisioned- hundreds of thousands serving internationally, a reciprocal service relationship across countries, and the cultivation of true global citizenship across cultures and societies.   (In fact, the Service World policy proposal that Points of Light and a coalition of organizations are advancing is a wonderful opportunity to advance this vision.)

In celebrating Sarge’s life, may we all be inspired by his uncommon idealism, tenacity, and compassion.  And may we be emboldened to re-double our own pursuits of a world that recognizes the singular worth of every individual and the unity which binds us all, forever, together.

In service,

Michelle Nunn

CEO, Points of Light Institute, and Co-Founder, HandsOn Network

You can leave your own tribute to Sargent Shriver at http://www.sargentshriver.org/

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Follow the Leader

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Today marks the first day of a brand new game for social good.  Remember Tag?  Now we’re playing Follow the Leader!

Yesterday’s Marin Luther King, Jr. Day brought thousands of people into their communities to serve.  Follow the Leader channels that energy and engagement into a more sustainable commitment to service.  Follow the Leader looks to take the one-day commitment to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of community and drive a commitment to community service as a way to address some of the nation’s most pressing challenges.

Follow the Leader is easy, just like when you played it when you were younger.  When you register on the Follow the Leader site, you’ll be able to choose a Project Playbook – a step by step project guide for project implementation and management that helps to guide you from the idea of implementing a service project in your community to a successful day of service.

The Project Play books are available in four issue areas:

  • Economy
  • Education
  • Emergency Preparedness and Recovery
  • Environment

By playing Follow the Leader, you’re a game change in your community.  Every act of service and each commitment to create change, no matter how large or small, creates an impact in your community.  When you get involved with Follow the Leader, you can find a tested an successful service project, download the project toolkit, invite friends and family to help in your project, and be the leader for positive change in your community.

When you play Follow the Leader, you don’t only get the sense of satisfaction of helping to improve your community – you’re eligible for prizes, too!  Each month has a different prize, and at the end of Follow the Leader, one person will win a week-long volunteer vacation for two to HandsOn Manilla!

Take today to continue your work from Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Follow the Leader!

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