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Second Century of Helping

Ideas

Looking for ideas for how to participate in this centennial project?  The sky’s the limit!  The three primary criteria that your SCOH volunteer hours must meet are:

• Hours must include an application of your FCS expertise, and
• You must identify yourself as an FCS professional while volunteering, and;
• You must not receive compensation beyond expense reimbursement.

In addition, eligible volunteer hours must provide assistance to persons outside one’s immediate family.

Here are some ideas that generally would meet these criteria:

• Providing leadership by serving on the boards of community service organizations such as domestic violence shelters or community food banks;
• Providing fundraising assistance to the March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, or similar nonprofits;
• Providing labor such as Meals on Wheels delivery or Red Cross disaster relief;
• Providing education by leading a 4-H community club or training other volunteers such as Habitat for Humanity workers.

This list is intended to trigger your thinking – you may have lots more ideas!  Help demonstrate the tremendous impact that FCS professionals make every day to support individuals, families and communities.

Recent Examples

Contributor: Jody Roubanis
Date: August 7, 2009
End-date: August 14, 2009
City, State: Los Alamitos, CA
Category: Youth development
Hours: 4
Activity: Elementary school classroom support for student acquistion of literacy skills.

Contributor: Sue Whitaker
Date: August 1, 2009
End-date: May 31, 2009
City, State: Muncie, IN
Category: Other
Hours: 20
Activity: Much of my free time is used in volunteer work I do for the church. As a member of the Presbytery Committee on Ministry, I use by skills as a liaison from the committee to a church that is in the process of calling a minister. I have used various leadership skills in organizing and training the church search committee and meeting with them as they work through this process. I am not sure if this works or not, but because of this I have spent more time on this and less on other activities in the community.

Contributor: Brenda Schmidt
Date: June 8, 2009
End-date: June 12, 2009
City, State: Gretna, NE
Category: Youth development
Hours: 20
Activity: Teaching Bible Schoo.

Contributor: Ida B. Powell, CFCS
Date: May 31, 2009
City, State: Lynchburg, VA
Category: Community development
Hours: 5
Activity: Assistance with community unity event

Contributor: Carole J Chapin
Date: May 31, 2009
City, State: Coal City, IL
Category: Nutrition
Hours: 4
Activity: Helped organize and serve a dinner for 300+ people