Community Service
When encouraging your kids to participate in volunteering and community service it helps them to realize that it is important not to just focus on themselves. It can teach them a sense of responsibility, the benefit of sacrifice, as well as learning that what they do makes a difference. We all want our kids to be kind, thoughtful, giving and good stewards of their belongings. Volunteering along side of your child as a regular activity will help instill these qualities and start a lifelong tradition for them. This site will help you find volunteer opportunities for your child and yourself, find organizations/products that give to charities, places for adults to volunteer, and ways for your children to help their environment. I'm looking to start a section on where and what you can recycle in your township/borough so if you have any information please send it to submit@norristownmom.com.
 Finding Volunteer Opportunities
 Ways to Volunteer - This is a list of great activities that you can do with your child to help those in the neighborhood around him/her.
Artists Helping Children - They have several different craft projects and other programs that your kids can do to give to sick kids all around the country. This particular organization is my personal favorite with its creativity and joy in giving.
Roots and Shoots - This organization is about the power of youth and how they can cause global change. They have lots of groups already in this area, if you want to check one out click here, or you can even start you own.
Cradles to Crayons - This nationwide volunteer program just started up in Philadelphia with its warehouse in Horsham. It is in need of volunteers, mostly adults but you can help your kid run a product drive at school or through a club.
Kids Care Club - This is a Points of Light foundation whose mission is to develop compassion and the spirit of service and philanthropy in elementary and middle school aged youth.
PeaceCorps Kids World - This site is just a good one for kids to read through to find out about the peace corps and how they are helping.
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Responsible buying - Organizations with a conscience
Toms Shoes - If you are looking to buy shoes for your kids, this organization donates a pair of shoes to a rural kid in Argentina for every pair of shoes you buy. (They cost about $28).
The Enterprising Kitchen - If you are in the market for bath and soap products please look here. This nonprofit organization in Chicago is staffed completely by women who are working toward self-sufficiency and economic independence. The organization provides workforce development and support services for these women and enables lower-income women who have been unemployed and underemployed to maximize their individual potential and move into sustainable employment after 6-12 months.
People Not Profit - This group in Texas creates shirts printed on sweatshop-free material and profits from each sale are directed toward ongoing work in our partner communities: el sunza, el salvador and nyamirama,rwanda. Each shirt is uniquely symbolic of the belief that a better world is possible.
A Greater Gift - This organization's goal is to alleviate poverty and empower low-income people through trade, training and other forms of capacity building as they work to improve their lives. It is a free trade organization bringing you handmade artisan goods from around the world.
Classy Mommy - By shopping through this website all the proceeds for your purchase go either to Save the Children or Project Peanutbutter. You can read about both causes on this website.
Charity Navigator - This impartial site rates all nonprofit charity organization by how they spend the money they receive. This is a great site to use to find charities in your area. A four star rating is a top rating.
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Volunteering for Adults
Volunteer Solutions - Volunteer opportunities in your area.
Do Something.org - Volunteer opportunities in your area.
Volunteer Match - Matches up volunteers with nonprofit organizations in your area.
Servenet - More ways to volunteer in your area.
Fresh Air Fund - Have a child from an innercity spend some time with you in the suburbs or country.
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Learning about the Environment and Helping
Simple Steps - This great site gives parents simple ways to begin to to incorporate environmnetally sound practices and ideas into their everyday life.
Terracycle - This organization reuses plastic bottles for their product, they have a program where kids can collect money for their schools by collecting bottles.
EPA kids - A great way for kids to learn about things goign on in the environment.
Captain Planet Foundation - The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to fund and support hands-on, environmental projects for children and youths.
Kids F.A.C.E. - The mission of Kids for A Clean Environment is to provide information on environmental issues to children, to encourge and facilitate youth's involvement with effective environmental action and to recognize those efforts which result in the improvement of nature.
Reuse a Shoe - is a key component of Nike's long-term commitment to waste elimination by helping to close the loop on the life cycle of literally millions of pairs of old, worn-out or otherwise unusable athletic shoe material. It also helps increase the physical activity of young people to improve their lives by reusing this old athletic shoe material in new places for kids to play and be active.
Recycline - Recycline was established to provide high-quality recycled content & recyclable products to their consumers. They make sure their products introduce a new function – improving upon what is currently offered in the marketplace.
Baby Product - Green baby products that won't hurt the environment.
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