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Volunteering is Sexy

January 18, 2009 5 Comments

In a time of economic upset, more people find themselves out of work and unable to afford the increasing costs of vocational retraining. One way to gain new skills and demonstrate initiative (whether you’re employed or not) is to volunteer.

While some equate volunteering with dishing out gruel at a local soup kitchen, there are actually a broad variety of volunteer positions available.

If people think finding a job is challenging, landing just the right volunteer gig can sometimes prove doubly difficult. While there are an abundance of career counseling and job placement centers in Spokane, there are no all-encompassing third party volunteer service counseling groups.

Stay tuned for more on the “volunteer clearinghouse” concept in a later post…

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5 Responses to “Volunteering is Sexy”

  1. The Spovangelist March 19, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    Interesting article about this trend:

    “Ranks of Volunteers Swell as Joblessness Rises”

  2. The Spovangelist May 15, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    nonprofit and social enterprise jobs

  3. The Spovangelist August 4, 2010 at 9:40 am

    Told ya!

    http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2010/08/do-gooding-goes-mainstream

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