Volunteer 

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Benefits of Volunteering

• Volunteer work helps you realize the positive impact you can make in someone else's life.
• Learn new skills or volunteer in your area of expertise and teach your skills to others.
• Group volunteer projects can foster team spirit and bring together people from all walks of life.
• Be a positive role model to family and friends.
• Volunteering is a great way to enhance your résumé.
• Volunteering often communicates to others that you are ambitious, enthusiastic and care about the community.

A Dow Jones Report noted that corporations interested in increasing the education of their top personnel should look to non-profit organizations over the nation's business schools, " Three to five years of volunteer work can provide management experience most corporations couldn't provide over 20 years, if at all" PMA Leadership Briefs, August 2000.