In my job as a physician, I volunteer in a clinic run by the local homeless shelter every other Wednesday night.
As I engaged in volunteer coaching, I worked hard to mentor young boys and girls about life thru sport.
As soon as I felt comfortable enough to chat casually with the attorneys whose correspondence and briefs I typed, I asked them whether I could volunteer to do legal research for them on my lunch hour, after work, or on the weekends.
But I found that talking about how my sabbatical would be centred on the history of places I longed to visit, and how I planned to volunteer my skills as a lawyer where I could, helped to keep the conversation positive.
In college, I became a volunteer for the junior high ministry at my church.
To raise money for our work, I started a volunteer travel company that led hundreds of volunteers on trips to Cambodia.
So I decided to volunteer for a presidential campaign office in my neighborhood.
In 1995, I was a volunteer in the disaster area following the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
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As a seventh grader, I was invited to volunteer at the High Point Miracle League, an organization that provides an opportunity for children with mental and physical disabilities to participate in baseball games.
However, I was hesitant to do a comic about myself because I just didn't feel like that was appropriate for the subject matter, being that I was just a volunteer and not really, you know, someone who's directly affected by the hurricane.
Several years ago I was in an Advanced Volunteer Administration Symposium on Boomers and older generations.
Ms. NANCY SATTERFORD (Democratic Campaign Volunteer): I've been to all kinds of neighborhoods.
During my two years of full-time volunteer work, I managed to avoid the temptations of credit cards and cash loans.
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In 1985, at the request of Mother Teresa, I moved my small, volunteer operation to Jeremie, an extremely remote area in southwestern Haiti.
Whenever new assessments are developed by the district, I am the first to volunteer and get others to join me so that parallel evaluations are developed in Spanish.
During this time, I taught basic parenting as a volunteer at the Board of Probation and Parole.
No one asked me that question and I wasn't allowed to volunteer it.
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"I can see the strain when I have an employee or a volunteer whose spouse is on their second or third deployment, " she said.
And this is part of the process, as I said yesterday, that isn't always comfortable, that isn't what I think candidates leap up and volunteer to do -- here, look at all of my financial records.
For over 25 years I have mentored college students on a volunteer basis.
Some weeks ago, through a volunteer effort of mine, I met a longtime corporate responsibility consultant, Neil Smith, of SmithOBrien, one of the more seasoned corporate responsibility consulting outfits.
Mr. VINCENT MWELU (Volunteer Community Health Worker): I've been trained in the ...(unintelligible) how to give the medicine to patients, especially in my area, Kasia.
But as the years have passed and I have become involved with braille-related volunteer work on various committees of the Braille Authority of North America (BANA) and the International Council on English Braille (ICEB), I have come to realize an even greater satisfaction, based upon a deeper understanding of the importance of braille in the lives of blind men and women.
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At first she may have worked as she had before, as a volunteer usher, but by the time I was in school she had a real job, with pay, and year-round responsibilities.
Perhaps my business partner and CEO, Jim knew more than me as we entered this venture, but I entered this knowing what I saw as the problems in my community as a volunteer advocate for people with disabilities.
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Next season I hope to recruit players from all our area high schools to volunteer.
Even minor policy resonated with me, like making emergency contraception available over the counter, something I had argued for as a 16-year-old Planned Parenthood volunteer.
Earlier, I went out canvassing in another area of Ohio, near Dayton, with volunteer Terrance Hodges.
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