Community Service and Volunteerism

What is Community Service?

How does one get/do community service?

Why is community service important?

Community service can be a wide variety of things including:

Helping clean up you neighborhood.

Helping at the local food drive.

Feeding the homeless on special occasion or during certain parts of the year.

Can you name some local community service in your are?

What about at this school?

Local places such as the North Texas Food Bank help feed hungry citizens of north Texas.

http://web.ntfb.org/page.aspx?pid=253

Habitat for Humanity help those with out a place to live or those that have little to no living comfort. They help those that have been affected by natural disasters.

http://www.habitat.org/

The Ronald McDonald House helps families with a place to stay when their child is in the hospital.

http://www.rmhdallas.org/

This one is close to my heart. The Society of the prevention of animal cruelty or SPCA help local animals that would normally die, or are in bad home environments find a better home and heal.

http://www.spca.org/

If you were going to start a community service what would it be about?

How could you get people to join you?

What would be your mission statement?

How would you fund this organization?