Volunteers aren’t paid. Not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.
Socially, the benefits of volunteering show up quickly and have long-term effects. Social interaction improves mental and physical health, according to Psychology Today. The benefits of consistent socializing include better brain function and lower risk for depression and anxiety. You also improve your immune system.
Another more well-known benefit of volunteering is the impact on the community. Volunteering allows you to connect to your community and make it a better place. Even helping out with the smallest tasks can make a real difference to the lives of people, animals, and organizations in need.
Volunteering also provides an opportunity to develop new skills or build on existing experience and knowledge while making a difference for others.
Why Volunteer?
Find Purpose
Volunteering provides such a profound health benefit, a key factor is assumed to be that volunteering serves to express and facilitate opportunities to carry out one’s sense of purpose. The very nature of volunteering means choosing to work without being paid for it. As a result, people choose to spend their time on issues they feel strongly about. Benefits can be even greater for you, the volunteer. Volunteering and helping others can help you reduce stress, combat depression, keep you mentally stimulated, and provide a sense of purpose.
Connect with your Community
Volunteering provides such a profound health benefit, a key factor is assumed to be that volunteering serves to express and facilitate opportunities to carry out one’s sense of purpose. The very nature of volunteering means choosing to work without being paid for it. As a result, people choose to spend their time on issues they feel strongly about. Benefits can be even greater for you, the volunteer. Volunteering and helping others can help you reduce stress, combat depression, keep you mentally stimulated, and provide a sense of purpose.
Make a Difference
One of the more well-known benefits of volunteering is the impact on the community. Volunteering allows you to connect to your community and make it a better place. Even helping out with the smallest tasks can make a real difference to the lives of people, animals, and organizations in need. Volunteering is an opportunity to switch your focus, put others before yourself and partake in activities that make a difference, all while improving your self-worth by doing something self-less.
Volunteer Opportunities
Summer Kind Camp
Keys to Kindness hosts an annual Summer Kind Camp for Pre-K through 5th-grade children are our Little Buddies, Middle School Students are our BBITS and High School and College Students are our Big Buddies. This is the one-stop camp that connects kids to share kindness and have the opportunity to make a difference. We provide and encouraging environment Electronic Free to connect, build relationships and learn to navigate social skills. Everything from Manners Matter to Sportsmanship through crafts, games, and skits. Each day they make a handmade gift for an organizations in our community to learn the importance of giving back! During Kind Camp High School students are given the opportunity to earn community service hours while either being a Big Buddy or helping with our Community Give Back Initiatives.
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Summer Internships
Keys to Kindness non-profit, is excited to offer a Summer Internship for High School Students during the summer. Space for this opportunity is limited, we take this seriously. We want to help our youth learn different skills, trades, a work ethic, and have kind fun!
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Volunteer
We provide students with various opportunities to earn Community Service Hours with our Special Events such as our Golf Tournament!
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