Farmer Feedback: Importance of volunteering

“It really helps your community. You volunteer and help people through elementary schools, helping with their events, and helping make sure everybody has a great time. It also looks really good on college resumes. It makes the community a better place for everybody. If you're helping out it makes it more fun and enjoyable, and it makes a huge difference.”

“I think that volunteering helps us find our passion; it can help us sometimes even if we don't necessarily want to do a thing. It can help us find the things that we love. Depending on the person, there are a lot of things that are not possible without volunteering, cities don't have the funds necessary to do all the things that they want to do to support all the programs they want to support a...

 “I think volunteering to benefit your community benefits everyone, including the volunteer. We are all struggling by ourselves whether we'd like to see each other as a family or not, we all rely on and are forced to live with everyone around us. The better we can make our community, the better we all live. I think it gives selfishly a good warm fuzzy feeling; it feels good to help other people...

“Volunteering is really important for me because I get to help my community and be able to truly make an impact on others. It looks good on college resumes, as well just to show that you were able to be selfless and take your time out of your day to help others. I think that the community and overall the world in general would be a lot better if people were more selfless and more able to give their own...

“It's a great way to give back to the community without actually having to spend money. A lot of the time it's hard to actually make an impact on things; the only way to actually give back sometimes is through giving your time and helping people. I find community service such a big deal and then the way that I benefit from it is actually a lot, so I personally gain from it too, because it helps m...

“For me, volunteering is something that is very satisfactory for yourself. When you're giving back to a community that you believe in and that you're a part of, not only are you benefiting the lives of others, but you are also making sure that you're making a difference in a way that helps everyone to be better. There's so much in our community and in the world that we have a responsibility to fix...

 “Volunteering is important to me because it helps me not only get hours for my clubs, but also helps me get involved in the community. Whenever I volunteer, I get to meet new people every time and also get to see what I'm hoping for every time I've worked here. It makes me feel a little bit better because I see what I'm doing for the community and how much it makes other people feel better. We ne...

“I feel volunteering is important to me because we have a heart for the people and students here in our immediate community. I feel like it's important to give back to your community [because] at some point all of us have had help in some way whether that be from family [or] friends, some people don't have family or friends that are there to help support. When we give back, of course, it also feels ...

“It’s important for our kids to volunteer and see that they can make a difference. We've all been in positions where someone has helped us or we've needed help or gotten help. If we are in a position where we can help others or lend a hand to others, assist in any way or make anything easier for them, then we should do it. Our club [FCCLA] is going to try and get the donations for all of those ...