Giving Back

We are all asked to give back to our communities to help the communities improve. There are lots of ways of giving back, and lots of levels of giving back.

We can become involved as a volunteer in a community agency or organization: whether as a worker bee, a board member or a donor.

Voting is a way to give back to a community, by being involved in the political arena.  Being further involved as a member of a political organization, and attending meetings, caucusess, or conventions is a way of giving back.

Corresponding with your political leaders, whether on a local, county, state or federal level is another way of giving back.

Community and civic organizations like the Rotary, the Lions, the Kiwanis, the Soroptimist are ways to give back.

Missionary work is another way to give back.

We can also give back professionally: we might mentor someone at our place of employment or in our profession.

There are some formal ways to give back: programs like the Peace Corp, VISTA, Habitat for Humanity, Americorps are ways to give back.

We do not have to select one way of giving back and stay with it for a life time.  We may pick and choose over the course of our life to give back in ways that meet our needs as well as those of our community as we go through life. 

The important part is that we give back.