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Everyone should donate to charity. Your donation can be in the form of time or money or both. I have worked for two 501(c)3 non-profit agencies; a child abuse prevention agency for 7 years and a domestic violence agency for 6 year. Without the countless hours given by volunteers and the generous contributions we would not have been able to serve the community. Volunteers for these agencies served in a number of ways; board members, committee members, fund-raisers, parenting class facilitators, baby group facilitators, speakers, trainers, office help, technical help, etc. etc. etc. Any skill you have can be utilized by a non-profit agency. Can you type? File? Answer a phone? Teach? Enter data on a computer? Mail newsletters? Drive? Mentor? Coach? My suggestion is to find something that really hits your heart. Child abuse, domestic violence and parenting education are mine. Maybe yours is your church, hunger, poverty, shelter, literacy, litter, the environment, recycling, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, public health, mental health, animal abuse, and the list goes on. If you aren't already familiar with a local resource, get out your phone book and look in the yellow pages. Locate an agency, call them up, tell them you'd like to volunteer and ask them how you can help. If you really don't have time at this point in your life to physically donate, then get out your checkbook. Even $10 may make a difference. It could buy a scholarship for someone to take a parenting class, buy a video for a lending library, buy food for a shelter. You don't have any time or money? What about "stuff"? You can donate cans and packages of food for the food bank, extra file folders can go to any agency with an office, extra bed sheets can go to a shelter, nice clothes that don't fit anymore can be donated to a women's shelter and the women can use them to go to job interviews, again - the list goes on. If you are totally clueless about what you could donate, just ask the agency. Most already have lists made up they can read off to you or mail to you. Here are some interesting sites about donating: Quick Donations allows you to donate for free just by visiting a website. So You Wanna Donate To Charity helps you find an appropriate charity, find a reputable organization, figure out how much to donate, and more. Free Donation.com is another website that has sponsors pay for donation and all you have to do is click. Just Give is a website that connects people with charities and has a lot of great ideas on how to donate. Network for Good helps people get more involved in their communities from volunteering, donating, to speaking out about causes that concern you. The Non Profits has a good list of established charities to hook you up with. Good luck!

Charity starts at home with the ones you love. Have a loving heart when dealing with your children - put yourself in their shoes and imagine why they did something and what they were thinking. Take the time to ask. Charity is defined as love, compassion, service, sympathy & concern for others; giving voluntarily to those in need; a kindness, benevolence; tolerance in judging others; love of one's fellow human beings Unique Ways to Donate Kristina Kruzan of Bremerton, WA volunteers her services (she's a birth doula) with Operation Special Delivery, which provides free doula services to women whose husbands are (or scheduled to be) deployed at the time of their due date. She also is working with a local doula organization, PALS so that she can support economically challenged women in her community who would like a doula but can not afford to hire one on their own. Do you have a unique way of volunteering or donating? Let me know and I'll put it on the website! Click here. Join the MYSTICOOL MOMS newsletter list Enter your name and email address: Name: Email:   Subscribe      Unsubscribe Visit Heidi's Handmade Jewelry Site Teach your children essential tools for life. Heidi's husband Nick is the author of this educational workbook for children.

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