Volunteer.

10 Ways to Find the Time

We each have 8,760 hours in a year, roughly 720 hours in a month, 168 hours in a week, 24 hours in a day. How many can you spare to make someone's day? It's not as hard as you think. With a little advance planning, you can work volunteering into an already busy schedule.

1. Combine family time with volunteering. Volunteering is a great way to spend quality time with the family while passing your values to your children.

2. Many companies give their employees time to volunteer during the workday. Ask about policies at your job. read more »

Become a Volunteer

Find a volunteer opportunity on Volunteer Solutions!
Take a look at Volunteer Solutions, where interests become actions. On Volunteer Solutions you can search for a volunteer opportunity based on your interests, skills, and location.

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Corporate Volunteering

Business Meets Community

United Way will link your employees to meaningful volunteer opportunities aimed at helping youth. We are working with the business community to identify goals for companies, volunteers and kids. And we are partnering with organizations to connect you with volunteer opportunities that have proven results for youth including: read more »

Corporate volunteers to give far-reaching support to local organizations on United Way’s Community Care Day

Volunteers critical for human service organizations experiencing financial strain and increased community need

09/25/2008

BOSTON – Today more than 1,600 employees from 55 companies are leaving their blackberries unanswered, their to-do lists in the office, and their suits hanging at home in order to participate in United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley’s (United Way) 17th Annual Community Care Day, an effort to educate volunteers about issues facing the community and foster long-term volunteer engagement. Volunteers have become increasingly important as human service organizations try to save money under rising costs of operating and a growing community need. read more »

Day of Action

June 22, 2008

LIVE UNITED began as a simple T-shirt—something individuals could wear to show they are part of a collective of people working to advance the common good. Since then, it has become the beginnings of a much larger movement, a mentality that we are all people, connected, interdependent, united. and that when we reach out a hand to one, we have the power to influence the condition of all. read more »

Volunteer.

Maria Semsa, Age 29.

I LIVE UNITED by Working at Ensuring Stability through Action in our Community, a United Way partner agency, and by working as a health educator, teaching families about asthma treatment. read more »

Open your heart. Lend a hand.

Unite with others to create change.

Volunteering for a cause, organization or person that you believe in lets you contribute in a very personal way. Give your time. And be a catalyst for the change that you want to see in the world.