“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
Community Service Can Help In Your Recovery
Community Service can be a powerful tool in your recovery from addiction. Helping others gets you out of your own head. It makes you appreciate your own situation and promotes gratitude in your own life.
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Websites To Help You Find Community Service
Giving Assistant
https://givingassistant.org
How Giving Assistant works: Earn (and save) cash. Snag coupons, deals, and a share of our sales commissions as cash back. Get paid. Receive your cash back via PayPal or eCheck. Make an impact and donate your cash back to one of 1.7 million nonprofits.
Amazon Smile
https://smile.amazon.com
This is an easy way to give back while shopping on Amazon! Shop at smile.amazon.com and they'll donate 0.5% of eligible purchases to your favorite charitable organization—no fees, no extra cost.
Great Non Profits
https://greatnonprofits.org
Find Non Profits to volunteer for on this website.
Idealist
https://www.idealist.org/en
Search for volunteer opportunities
Habitat for Humanity
https://www.habitat.org
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps families build and improve places to call home. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities.
American Red Cross
https://www.redcross.org
Each day, thousands of people – people just like you – provide compassionate care to those in need. Their network of generous donors, volunteers and employees share a mission of preventing and relieving suffering, here at home and around the world.
Americorps
https://www.americorps.gov
For decades, they have worked to make service to others an indispensable part of the American experience. Through our nation’s most trying times, AmeriCorps has come together to help those in need.
Catchafire
https://www.catchafire.org
Volunteering your skills is an impactful way to give back — the average volunteer project on Catchafire is worth $5,200 in professional services. Connect directly with nonprofits and make a difference.
Volunteers of America
https://www.voa.org
Since 1896, they have supported and empowered America's most vulnerable groups, including veterans, at-risk youth, the frail elderly, men and women returning from prison, homeless individuals and families, people with disabilities, and those recovering from addictions.
Points of Light
https://www.pointsoflight.org
Our global community cannot flourish without a shared vision of what's possible, and processes that are coordinated, efficient and inclusive. At Points of Light, they are committed to providing the tools, insights and connections needed to ensure the social sector continues to grow and innovate in this rapidly changing world.
https://givingassistant.org
How Giving Assistant works: Earn (and save) cash. Snag coupons, deals, and a share of our sales commissions as cash back. Get paid. Receive your cash back via PayPal or eCheck. Make an impact and donate your cash back to one of 1.7 million nonprofits.
Amazon Smile
https://smile.amazon.com
This is an easy way to give back while shopping on Amazon! Shop at smile.amazon.com and they'll donate 0.5% of eligible purchases to your favorite charitable organization—no fees, no extra cost.
Great Non Profits
https://greatnonprofits.org
Find Non Profits to volunteer for on this website.
Idealist
https://www.idealist.org/en
Search for volunteer opportunities
Habitat for Humanity
https://www.habitat.org
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps families build and improve places to call home. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities.
American Red Cross
https://www.redcross.org
Each day, thousands of people – people just like you – provide compassionate care to those in need. Their network of generous donors, volunteers and employees share a mission of preventing and relieving suffering, here at home and around the world.
Americorps
https://www.americorps.gov
For decades, they have worked to make service to others an indispensable part of the American experience. Through our nation’s most trying times, AmeriCorps has come together to help those in need.
Catchafire
https://www.catchafire.org
Volunteering your skills is an impactful way to give back — the average volunteer project on Catchafire is worth $5,200 in professional services. Connect directly with nonprofits and make a difference.
Volunteers of America
https://www.voa.org
Since 1896, they have supported and empowered America's most vulnerable groups, including veterans, at-risk youth, the frail elderly, men and women returning from prison, homeless individuals and families, people with disabilities, and those recovering from addictions.
Points of Light
https://www.pointsoflight.org
Our global community cannot flourish without a shared vision of what's possible, and processes that are coordinated, efficient and inclusive. At Points of Light, they are committed to providing the tools, insights and connections needed to ensure the social sector continues to grow and innovate in this rapidly changing world.
Videos About Volunteer Work
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Learn how volunteering can be beneficial to you and your community. (Video is about 4 minutes)
Start a community group and improve your neighborhood. See what it takes for an individual or group to go from an idea to action. |
“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
― Abraham Lincoln
― Abraham Lincoln
