Do you volunteer?

[yvr girl]

I'm doing a paper on volunteering. Please let me know your thoughts and experiences on the subject. If you could also complete the survey, that would be most helpful.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=538702246054

Thanks!

[NMDemDist2]

1. nice survey software and there you go! n/t

[yvr girl]

2. It's a free service for small surveys

You can have up to 10 questions on each survey and it will allow 100 responses. If you pay money you can get more features and no restrictions.

(BTW, thanks.)

[cmd]

3. Just finished your survey

Yes, I do volunteer. I man the county Dem HQ twice a month during the year and am very involved in activities there during elections. I practically lived at HQ during the Kerry campaign and am putting in hours each week in the Zack Space/Bob Ney campaign. Off to make some calls for Zack right now. Good luck. cmd

[amerikat]

4. done

I like that software too.

[yvr girl]

5. It's a Web app.

[Betsy Ross]

6. I was very active during the '04 election,

woring on a near-daily basis. I get occassional calls to provide support for fair elections events. But I am most active in making quilts for men and women wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq. It may not sound litke a big deal, but it does provide emotional support to our troops, letting them know that Americans recognize their efforts. I support the warriors not the war, an important lesson learned over the Viet Nam era.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Done

One thing you might wish to add is how many causes you volunteer for. I do volunteer work for three.

[usrbs]

8. Done. Great software. I'm bookmarking site. n/t

[hyphenate]

9. i used to

a while back. I haven't in awhile because of health problems--I can't stand for very long, and I am always tired--but if I could, I would.

Some of the most gratifying times were when I worked with Job Corps in LA about twenty-five years ago. We worked with inner city kids and did games, hobbies and vocational training.

I also did some work for a local charity in Mass. once upon a time, though it was quite some time ago as well. One Christmas, we did gift wrapping at the mall, and that was kind of hectic.

Some phone work, some poster work, and some other similar, straight campaign work. It gets chaotic sometimes, but if you have the energy, keep at it!

[Igel]

10. Used to.

Grad school, marriage, kid, unfinished dissertation ... and DU ... sort of killed most of it.

In junior high, I tutored "underprivileged" 5-6 graders in math.
In high school, I spent 1-2 afternoons a week--full days during the summer--with Head Start. (I learned to seriously hate fried liver and onions. Also realized I'm not good with young kids. Now I'm the primary care-giver to a 2-year-old tyrant.)
Was in Boy Scouts the entire time; it was the '70s, and we did things like clean trash out of swamps and help the forestry service thin reforested areas.

Did tutoring in college, mostly Cuban and SE Asian, in chemistry.

Graduated; moved to Oregon. Participated in the church's choir and string/instrument ensemble for a decade. Violin and viola, as needed.
Tutored ESL 1-on-1 for a couple of Cambodian boat people. They became competent in English and moved on; so did I.
Then I tried to help a couple of guys that probably never did become fluent readers learn how to read. No volunteer support, I dropped it when it became hopeless.
Volunteered 12-15 hours a week or so as board operator (= 'DJ') at the NPR station for 3-4 years before they went full-time professional; evenings and weekends, programming classical stuff, reading PSAs during ATC, and announcing/back-announcing pre-recorded concerts. Regularly returned for fund-raising drives.
Joined a volunteer amateur string ensemble that went around performing at nursing homes and during public 'festivals'; it was tolerably good, members joined through audition or invitation only, lots of ex-music majors and part-time professionals.

In grad school volunteered for umpteen million committee assignments at the university level, some useless and some really important, organized some stuff in my dept. and 'division' (i.e., "Humanities").
After finishing grad-level coursework, I volunteered as ESL teacher for Russians at a Jewish Community Center in upstate New York.

I'm currently going crazy in Houston; been here two years, supposedly dissertating, and need to get out. Looked into volunteering, but I haven't 'cracked' the system here to find out where and how.

Volunteering is great, if there's something that you're decent at and like doing. When the toddler is no longer toddling, and able to actually help by volunteering, he's going to for a while.

Didn't do the survey since I don't currently volunteer. But, in a nutshell: I volunteer to be involved and stay busy; I'd spend some money on it, but only if I liked it--I volunteer for things I don't much like if I think the people benefiting need the help or services. It should be at least weekly.

[ulysses]

11. used to, as a clinic escort.

Does that count?

[SPKrazy]

12. Done-school paper?

if so what class?

[yvr girl]

16. It's not for school

It's for a job interview.

[chrisbur]

13. I coach soccer.

I also help with things at the town elementary school, help a local hospice with computers/etc. and pretty much anything else the town, school district and Rec. department or neighbors want my wife and I to do. I wouldn't necessarily say that I volunteer but that my wife volunteers me.

Wow, in retrospect that seems like a lot and we're godless heathens too!

[Jara sang]

14. Beach clean ups, trail maintenance.

Plus I volunteered for three months with the US Forest Service back in '95.

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[yvr girl]

17. Kick for more responses

Help. Please.