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Volunteering : insights and tips for teenagers
2020
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Volunteering: Insights and Tips for Teenagers provides a complete guide to the world of volunteerism. It shows you how to become engaged in what will be among the most gratifying and worthwhile experiences of your life.

In this book you'll learn why volunteerism is so important both to volunteers themselves and to those they serve and explore different types of volunteer opportunities and how to find and secure a rewarding volunteer placement. With advice from professionals and first-hand accounts from teen volunteers, including a fifteen-year-old girl who started a foundation that now helps hundreds of new parents, this book will help you make the most of your volunteer experience.

You will learn

how to research volunteer opportunities what to expect from the application, interview, and orientation process how to be a successful volunteer how to handle unfamiliar or uncomfortable situations and how to ask for help, and how you can use what you learn as a volunteer to create new academic or career opportunities.

With helpful tips for success and a resource list of volunteer opportunities, this book provides everything you need to understand the vital and vibrant world of volunteerism.

hat you learn as a volunteer to create new academic or career opportunities.

With helpful tips for success and a resource list of volunteer opportunities, this book provides everything you need to understand the vital and vibrant world of volunteerism.

hat you learn as a volunteer to create new academic or career opportunities.

With helpful tips for success and a resource list of volunteer opportunities, this book provides everything you need to understand the vital and vibrant world of volunteerism.

hat you learn as a volunteer to create new academic or career opportunities.

With helpful tips for success and a resource list of volunteer opportunities, this book provides everything you need to understand the vital and vibrant world of volunteerism.

Table of Contents
You Are Not Alonep. ix
Part IWhat is Volunteering?
1Why Volunteer?p. 3
2Getting Started as a Volunteerp. 15
Part IIExpectations and Challenges
3What Makes a Successful Volunteer?p. 39
4What You Learn as a Volunteerp. 53
5Volunteer Challengesp. 73
6Finding Your Area of Interest as a Prospective Volunteerp. 83
Part IIIWhat's Next
7Making the Most of Your Volunteeringp. 95
8Continuing to Make a Differencep. 101
9Beyond Volunteeringp. 105
Notesp. 109
Selected Resourcesp. 113
Bibliographyp. 125
Indexp. 127
About the Authorp. 131
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