Family Volunteering

Family volunteering provides an important opportunity to develop values for future generations by instilling good social conscience. It contributes to healthy family connections by offering venues that give family members a common interest. Most importantly, family volunteering creates life-long volunteers and a legacy of volunteering for the next generation to carry into the future.

It’s a fact that families that volunteer together will benefit because…

• It strengthens families
• It connects and strengthens communities
• Increase community awareness of important social needs
• It helps create a new generation of dedicated volunteers
• It teaches kids values like kindness, empathy, respect, friendliness and tolerance
• It changes lives

Before you start your search…

Brainstorm with your family about how you would like to help. Would you like to work indoors or outdoors? Would you like to do hands-on work? Come up with an idea of your ideal volunteer opportunity and call the Volunteer Center of Fresno County to help set it up.

For more information please contact: Nicole Smaira (559) 237-3101 or nsmaira@vcfresno.org

Upcoming Family Volunteer Opportunities:

• Calendar
• Volunteer