A PowerPoint presentation was done for a class project instead of just writing about one of our passions.

1. Volunteer Presentation Holley Klein

2. “The only gift is a portion of thyself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Volunteers are individuals who reach out beyond the confines of their paid employment and of their normal responsibilities to contribute time and service to a not-for-profit cause in the belief that their activity is beneficial to others as well as satisfying to themselves.” (Taking Volunteerism into the 21st Century, American Red Cross)

4. Build bonds with my son and family

5. Enhance my resume

6. Give those in need new resources

7. Empowerment to both volunteer and recipient

8. “Pay it Forward”

9. Build Self Esteem

10. Build Leadership Skills

11. Better Use of My Time

12. Gain Work Experience

13. Build Self Worth

14. Meet New People

15. Show my son Value of Volunteering“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington

16. Personal Characteristics Compassionate Enjoyment of Helping Others Good Teaching Skills Good Communicator Searching for Personal Growth Resourcefulness Likes a challenge and hard work Love my community Creative Disciplined Efficient Going the Extra Mile Enhancing Leadership role and techniques Modest and Humble Loves New Opportunity Trust Worthy Likes Team Work “Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.” Gerald Jamplosky

17. Things to Consider Establish how much time I can give Research the needs in the community Set clear SMART goals and expectations Explore Possibilities Share and Recruit others Explore family volunteer opportunities

18. Volunteer as a Family Helps families learn about social issues Provides new perspective on the world Passes on family values Provide a positive role model Provides quality time for the family to spend together Increase interpersonal communication Improves problem solving within family

19. Why Children Should Volunteer Enhances Development Promotes a healthy lifestyle Teaches social responsibility Creates lifelong ethic of service Improves the community “Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things, event if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is a kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.” Emanuel Swedenborg

20. Places to Volunteer RACCAP – Rappahannock Area Council of Children and Parents Share Mental Health America of Fredericksburg The Child Support Link Kids Care Club The Rappahannock Regional Library

21. Rappahannock Area Council of Children and Parents Mission To promote positive parenting and to prevent child abuse and neglect in the Rappahannock Area Community, which includes: Caroline County, City of Fredericksburg, King George County, Orange County, Spotsylvania County and Stafford County www.raccap.org

22. SHARE Volunteer service is the heart of SHARE’s network. SHARE participants perform at least two hours of volunteer service monthly to strengthen their own community. Therefore, every person that participates with SHARE is a volunteer. “There is no better exercise for your heart, then reaching down and helping to lift someone up.” Bernard Meltzer Mission For $20 plus 2 hours of volunteer service, anyone one may receive a SHARE package full of fresh vegetables, fruits, staple items and frozen meats. The same amount of food would cost approximately $40-$45 at the supermarket. With SHARE, participants can save 50% - 60% on their groceries. www.sharedc.org

23. Mental Health America of Fredericksburg Mission The Seniors Visitors Program is a supportive service program… that promotes independence, dignity and healthy living for older adults in their own home environment “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop www.mhafred.org/senior_visitors_files/index.html

24. The Child Support Link * Child Support Economics Education Program *Uninsured Children’s Program * Housing Education Program * Food Program * Christmas 911 * School Days 911 Phone 540-424-0917 * Website under construction Mission To reduce child poverty, homelessness, and hunger caused by non payment of child support “A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.” G. Donald Gale

25. Kids Care Club Mission Develop compassion and to inspire a spirit of service in elementary and middle school age youth www.kidscare.org “Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.” Leo Buscaglia

26. Rappahannock Regional Library Mission www.librarypoint.org “We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.” Martin Luther King, Jr. - provide library resources and services necessary to meet the evolving educational, recreational, and informational needs of the public, thus enhancing individual and community life

27. Designed by Holley Klein “The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.” Collier Graham This is one of my goals for the next session to enhance not only my education but my personal and family life as well. But doing this power point gave me the specific objectives to work towards for the next session of classes. It gives me direction and step by step “slides” to better manage my time. I like being creative in the way I develop goals and this was my first power point ever attempted. So I met one goal of experimenting with power point and at the same time met another by establishing a guideline to meet another goal.