Looking for new ways to volunteer to make a difference in someone's life? Why not connect with Volunteer Match which can pair you with an opportunity at a nearby hospital, school or other place of need.

Click here for more information, just enter your zip code and area of interest, and then find a new project and sign up. It's that simple.

Areas of opporunity include:
community service
volunteer opportunities
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Or just contact your favorite charity or non-profit organization and tell them you’d like to volunteer to help. We guarantee you you’ll not be turned down!

Non-profit organizations can also utilize Volunteer Match looking for volunteers.

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Teach Your Children to Give to the PoorIf you want to, have been meaning to, but haven't gotten around to...doing something to help the poor, the starving, even right here in the U.S., you can start today, while at the same time teach your children the value of giving to those less fortunate.

Here's an idea! Buy a bank or a box with a lid, or whatever you'd be happy to leave on your kitchen table, and designate one night a week as "Feed the Poor Night" and as everyone comes to sit down to dinner have each put some of their money/allowance in the box, which idealy you will send off together once a month to a reputable charitable organization that is effectively making an impact in caring for and feeding the poor.

Here are a few of the organizations we can recommend:
*Life Outreach - feeds starving children in Africa, builds orphanages China for cast-away babies.
*Operation Blessing - food, medical, school supplies, clothes to America's poor and overseas
World Vision - Emergency food aide, natural disaster relief, assist with crops, water supply

Don't think your children will automatically care in this way when they grow up if you don't work to foster it in them now. Lead the way, and they remember it when they are grown. It's part of the legacy you will leave them.