6 Ways to Contribute to the Community

Even during summer vacation or long weekend, I can play a role out of the community. Let's take time to improve the lives of local children, to improve the beauty of the area, or to raise awareness of local nonprofit organizations. How's this.

1. Let's be a reading counselor. Although the course may not start, school weekends and holidays are very busy. Teachers and volunteers work together to provide students with greater confidence and skills. Please ask the reading counselor which is the nearest elementary school or junior high school. On the United Way website you can promise to become a volunteer reader, mentor or mentor. After the promise, you will get information on how to start a volunteer.

It helps to build a playground. A community nationwide is working on improving green spaces and children's play. Ask the municipal government whether there is an ongoing local playground project. Suggest aid on Saturday afternoon

3. Pay for coffee. The contribution to the community is not necessarily in the form of an oversized check. A few dollars of donation immediately sum up and are highly appreciated like a big gift. We will change the change to the fundraising activity next to the checkout counter at the local store or restaurant at the bottom of your car or wallet

4. If you do not have enough time to submit information, please use a powerful voice to disseminate information about regional plans and organizations. We suggest sharing posts with social media accounts, telling friends, and hanging posters at local companies. Contribute by raising consciousness

5. Organize fund-raising activities. Volunteers to help plan their activities will increase the success of the organization. It will take several hours to finish everything, whether in a live auction or a child's carnival night. Please check the fund raising activity of "No Shave November" in United Way of Norman, Oklahoma. With the help of volunteers, the 2012 fundraising activities have exceeded the target of $ 50,000!

6. Please participate in an interesting run. Participating in the local 5K burns some calories and earns money for precious reasons. During the warmer season, these activities are sufficient and the number of participants is large. Attach sneakers and do something good

The United Way is at the forefront of improving the lives of children and making the community more livable. Join Now!

As a leader of the Veterans Empowerment Movement, Got Your 6 calls veterans as "leaders" and "civil assets". The VCHI survey results show that veterans seriously contribute to the community in a variety of ways, including volunteer, voting and participation in community organizations. VCHI also provides specific evidence that a veteran who invested in our country is good for our community. You can read the report here. Run a non-profit startup like startup. Please focus not only on your output but on the impact and measure the result. Promote the goodness of work, not myself. The real test of the leader is to build an organization that can survive and prosper without you. Please build your own value and goals as an organization, never give up; it is all about mission

Please contribute to your local anti-racist community. Grassroots organizations are valuable assets and support local communities by providing products and resources. Contribution is good when space is mainly operated by PoC, but please do not choose sports and pay attention to their voice. When discussing race discrimination, their experience is more important than your experience. Please be aware of micro and macro attacks that occur frequently in professional environments. Pay attention to how to cope with PoC compared with white colleagues and use your privileges to break down the structure of white supremacists in the workplace. This sounds awful for some people, but Caucasian supremacy is maintained primarily under a capitalistic structure. It largely depends on suppression of colored people in the hierarchy.

Indiana University students have contributed in many ways to communities that have long been considered ideas, cultures and experiences abundant. Please make the most important contribution to one or more communities to which you belong. (For example, a community can be formed around music, sports, art, culture, ethnicity, shared experiences of shared beliefs and ideas.) The influence these experiences have given you Please briefly explain. (200 to 400 words)