You’ve inherited $5 million, with
instructions that you must give it all away — but you can choose any
organizations you like to be the beneficiaries. Where does the money go?
That’s easy.
Starving children, battered women, and wounded warriors. The hard part is that I would also need the
time off to go and be a part of each of the organizations that I would give the
money away too. I love to volunteer, and I have really been missing my
volunteer work since moving back to the states. I haven’t really settled upon
or found who/what I want to volunteer for yet, and that’s the problem.
It was easy
on Kwajalein to find these opportunities and for me, they were mostly related
to my boys and the children of Ebeye Public Elementary School. I taught Sunday School, was the Den Leader
for my son’s cub scouts for 3 years in a row, was actively involved in PTO at
my boys’ elementary school and I was the volunteer leader for the 4-H Ebeye
Citizenship Club and my last year there, the 4-H Unbound Bookmaker’s Club. These were my pride and joy of the work I
completed on the island. I loved being a
part of these groups, guiding and supporting children in these ways. But, here, it’s not been the same. I joined
the PTO, but the one meeting I tried to go to was publicized incorrectly, and I
arrived an hour late, and it was so packed, I didn’t dare go inside. We have visited one particular church several
times, and I really enjoyed it, as did my son, but something has held me back
from being more involved there, and we haven’t even been in months now. And 4-H, well there’s not really the same
opportunities for me with 4-H here as there was on our island base. So, I’ve looked up volunteer organizations in
our area, and there’s a couple I have considered, but none that have really
pulled at my heartstrings or had the type of schedule I could easily fit in and
be a part of, so I am still searching.
That said,
if I inherited $5 million and carefully chose the organizations I would want to
contribute to including needy children, battered women’s shelters, and wounded
warriors, I would want to not only donate the money, but visit the places and
people my money was going to and find out how I could be of assistance in some
other volunteer capacity other than just donating funds.
What do you
think? Having read my blog and knowing a
few things about me where do you think my skill set would best fit into for
volunteer work? What types of
organizations do you volunteer with regularly? Maybe what you do will give me
some ideas. Help me find my volunteer niche stateside, and thanks for your
thoughts. J
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