Donation Guide 2019

In what is now an annual tradition my partner and I are spending part of our new years making charitable donation goals for the upcoming year.

Check out last years here: https://surrealvolunteering.blogspot.com/2017/12/day-6-7daysofsocialmediavulnerabilitych.html

The first year we focused on water systems. The second on expression and speech. This year we are going a bit more local with a focus on things that have impacts in the Houston area.

Houston Magazine ran a great article about local non-profits that are making a positive impact in our community. Check it out here: https://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2018/7/20/nonprofits-houston

With this to start us off, we have 4 that we will give to, 3 times each over the year.

The 2019 charities of our choice are:

Houston Public Media: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/ - This has some carry over as in 2018 when we donated to NPR.

Houston Justice: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/

Clinic Access Support Network: https://clinicaccess.org/index.html

ACLU Texas: https://www.aclutx.org/

As in years past, we will provide in-kind gifts to the Red Cross & an annual donation to our local United Way.  Partway into 2018 we began carrying "homeless kits" in our car and have been passing out bags with small support items to those we pass begging at stoplights. These bags have items like water bottles, kleenex, and cough drops. We plan to continue this direct style of donation into 2019.


The value of supporting systems that make our world a better place is priceless, but from over 20 years in the nonprofit sector, I know that monetary donations are required for these systems to function and our world to be better.

My wish for 2019 is that the world is a better place, one donation, one hour, one person at a time.

Volunteering as a Career Builder Toolkit

An amazing resource that I need to keep for latter use!

Volunteering as a Career Builder
Volunteer Center United Way of Central Indiana
3901 N. Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN 46208
volunteer@uwci.org
317.921.1271

The Volunteering as a Career Builder Toolkit is designed to help those who seek to engage in
volunteering as a means to strategically advance their careers, build skills, and create more
meaningful experiences. This guide is a series of practical tools, exercises and examples that
will help you evaluate, communicate, and seek volunteer opportunities that will help advance
your professional goals. The activities in the toolkit build on each other but may be used
independently as desired. This toolkit has been designed for:

 Career starters – individuals who have recently graduated high school or college,
individuals starting a career for the first time or those who are returning to a career after
a long break
 Career changers – individuals who are seeking to shift or change their careers and need
to develop new skills or competencies to make themselves more marketable
 Recently unemployed – individuals who have lost their jobs and are seeking ways to
stand out from other candidates, maintain existing skills or make connections to new
careers
 Skill builders – individuals who wish to build or enhance professional skills and
competencies through volunteer service for personal or professional benefit
 Volunteer managers – nonprofit staff who manage volunteers and are interested in
assisting them build career skills through volunteering


Find it at: http://www.uwci.org/files/file/volunteerism-as-career-builder-toolkit-for-volunteers.pdf