People often wonder, what drives people to volunteer? Don’t only people with heavy consciences or people with too much time on their hands volunteer? I already have a job, why volunteer too? Well naysayers, hopefully the following list will show you what our team at RochesterCares already knows: volunteering is super beneficial!
10. Volunteering is good for you! The physical and mental rewards of volunteering endless. When you focus on someone else, and not yourself, it can relieve stress. Less stress is a mood booster which in turns positively effects your immune system.
9. Volunteering saves resources! Money that would be spent hiring people to do jobs that volunteers can do can be returned and invested in community. It is estimated that a volunteer’s time is worth about $15 an hour!
8. Gain professional experience! Volunteering is a free way to fatten up your resume and learn valuable skills in many different areas.
7. Volunteering brings people together! Learn teamwork skills and unite people who may have been otherwise divided or strangers prior to service projects. Some think of volunteering as an interactive match.com or Facebook.
6. Volunteering promotes personal growth, worth and self-esteem! Understanding community needs helps foster empathy and self-efficacy. Don’t it just feel good?
5. Volunteering builds and builds communities! RochesterCares focuses on 8 different aspects of our community: animals, civic engagement, children/youth, disabled populations, the elderly, the environment and environmental projects, health, and hunger and food insecurity.
4. You learn a lot! Discover things about yourself and your community that you never knew before!
3. You get a chance to give back! Ya know, what goes around comes around.
2. Volunteering encourages civil responsiblity! As Gandhi said, be the change you want to see in the world.
1. You can make a huge difference!
Come and join us in celebrating 10 years of service to the Rochester community at Max’s at High Falls on September 22nd. We are hosting speaker, Peter Lovenheim, author of “In The Neighborhood”, and will be selling his books at the event. Here’s the logistical information:
