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It's Talk To Us 2024 and a great week to learn how to be a better listener for those around you. From inviting your friends and family around for a 1:1 cuppa and chat or volunteering at Samaritans (which champions this awareness day), learning to listen is a secret skill that should be universally used for the better. How are you going to listen this week? #AwarenessDay #Listening #MentalHealth

Don’t wait until your confident to show up. Show up until you’re confident. We made it back in time from San Diego for our Reno Rodeo volunteer obligations! The Spanish Springs Rodeo Team volunteered at Kids Day. Reno Rodeo raises over $2 Million a year to support 14 different counties in Nevada, including our rodeo team. On our way out, Ainsley and I snuck to the back alley way and captured a few photos. She was nervous about being caught 😂, but I wanted her to get the on the ground opportunity to visualize what running at the Reno Rodeo would look like some day. Opportunities to visualize what you want is so important. If you are leading a team, parenting, or working towards your own goals…creating opportunities to visualize what that achievement looks like is so important. Dream building motivates and fuels you to show up confident even if you don’t feel confident. Reno Rodeo, Reno Rodeo Association, Reno Rodeo Foundation

Dear Volunteers, You are truly appreciated always but here are a few things to take into consideration. We understand that volunteering is a selfless act but remembering, what is worth doing; is worth doing well. When on the field, do well to drop any assumed/borrowed or inborn “ajeboism”, you are out to work, you are most likely to get dirty on the field. - you need to drop your phones and do the needful. Phones can be distracting. Remember, the outreach or project is just for few hours. You can do it! There will always be time to take pictures and make videos. - if you’re a first timer, on getting to a location for an outreach, mix up with others. Ask questions, know where and how to fit in. Get involved. It’s all for impact. - DRESS APPROPRIATELY (read this over again). Thank you! Another important fact to put into consideration, - You may be visiting places that will provoke your emotions, PLEASE, control your tear glands. We understand empathy but we need to encourage those we are visiting. So no tears baby girl. Hug it out 🤗 We love you and we appreciate every second you sacrifice to make great change and impact. You make the world a beautiful place 💚 Cheers to beautiful years of making impact. #sdgs #clarecares #love #volunteering #humanity #orphancare

It's #VolunteersWeek Do you want to volunteer? Whether you can regularly volunteer, or it’s more ad hoc, we need you #YourTimeGrantsWishes. Find out more on the link below and sign up to become a Wish Maker today and help rescue the magic of childhood. https://bit.ly/3KtOwRS #VolunteersWeek2024 #MakeAWishUK #MyTimeGrantsWishes #YoursCanToo

2024 marks 40 years of Volunteers’ Week – a week dedicated to recognising and celebrating volunteers past, present and future. An estimated 30,000+ people volunteer across a variety of different disciplines at every level of the game, enriching lives through netball on and beyond the court. Here are just three ways you can get involved this week: 💬 1. Say ‘thank you’ United by their love for the sport, netball simply wouldn’t happen without the time, talent and expertise of volunteers. Whether responsible for opening up the netball court gates at 8am on a Saturday, sitting on a county league committee, selling programmes at an international event or acting as a primary carer, their support, in all its forms, is invaluable. Take the time to say a special ‘thank you’ - you could even create a bespoke personalised graphic: https://lnkd.in/ePwbPk83 📝 2. Share a story via The Huddle The Huddle promises to do what all good huddles do – bring the whole Netball Family together! We want to champion and celebrate your stories, and the stories of the people who inspire you, so shine a spotlight on a brilliant volunteer or group of volunteers: https://lnkd.in/eFVitN7P 📲 3. Join the biggest volunteering weekend From 7-9 June, The Big Help Out returns, providing opportunities for people to experience volunteering and make a difference in their communities. Got a spare five minutes? We’ve added some simple NETBALLHer actions to the app to keep driving awareness of our industry-leading initiative and to continue normalising conversations on topics about the female body. Clubs, leagues, regions and counties, the app can also support you to recruit volunteers so check it out: https://lnkd.in/e-C-Zzed. #Netball #VolunteersWeek #Volunteers #Volunteering #BigHelpOut 

It's Volunteers Week this week and last night like every Monday in the school year I was volunteering as Brown Owl at my local Brownie unit - alongside me last night was Martin from the RNLI who has spent the last 25 years as education volunteer going round talking about Water Safety and the work of the RNLI - and why the post you may ask? I often think about why , why is that I stick my hand up to run a stall at the local carnival, organise a fundraiser for my daughters dance school, take 30 girls to watch WSL and generally get stuck in when I can both in and out of work - what is the 'Volunteer Mindset' and where does it come from? I think mine is combination of my family background, a nurturing education environment and working in places where volunteering was the norm be that external or in the guise of mentoring, running some training or going into schools talking about the opportunities out there but its definitely something that once you get involved it's contagious For me it's all about being part of the wider community, getting to know people , seeing people get opportunities to experience things they may otherwise have not. with an underlying view of why not me. And with that in mind if you fancy dressing up in some rather fetching outfits to the amusement of 8 year olds why not see where you can volunteer near you? #VolunteerWeek #VolunteerMindset

Now this is big.....100,000,000 volunteer hours powered by Rosterfy 😳 🥳 *A little story here* We never meant to even launch Rosterfy...In fact, we proactively said no to anyone that wanted to use Rosterfy for the first 12 months of it's existence! A little background....In 2015 Bennett Merriman Christopher Grant and I were running our first business together Event Workforce in Australia. A company we launched at uni to help connect motivated university students to opportunities to build their experience and help get a job at the end of their degree. From 2010 to 2015 we grew Event Workforce to having over 20,000 workforce staffing over 1,500 events a year. We had spreadsheets going everywhere, staff had to re register for every event and to put it bluntly - we were giving both our clients and our workforce a crappy experience because we couldn't operate at scale. A feeling I know a lot of prospects have when we speak to them today! That's why we built Rosterfy to solve our OWN PROBLEMS...And hence why we said no to anyone that wanted to use the platform, we wanted to ensure we used the platform ourselves to learn and iterate before anyone else - and the initial intention of Rosterfy was simply to help us better manage our OWN workforce - not for anyone else to use the platform. But over the first 12 months of using Rosterfy, we began to realise that what we cared about was connecting good people to good work, and we could help make this impact on a larger scale than just Australia with a platform like Rosterfy. To think there's now been 100m hours of opportunities generated is crazy but at the same time it feels like we are just getting started - there's still so much to do! It's moments like these to reflect (briefly) on the people that took a chance on us early days (you know who you are!), our passionate team that has been with us from the beginning, our investors and partners and the support from family and friends along the way. Thank you. We are now live in 26 countries operating in 10 languages and over 50 passionate full time Rosterfy team members around the world. We're driven to be the best in the world at mass workforce management and now do we start to think of 1 billion hours??!!

Hey community! 👋 Discover the profound benefits of volunteering in the latest HENSLEE blog! 👀 From fostering community bonds 👥, to boosting mental health 🧠 and driving career growth 🚀, volunteering offers remarkable rewards. We also chat with our Co-Founder Lee Turner, SHRM-CP about his personal experiences with volunteering. 🗣️ Check it out and get inspired to make a positive impact today! 💡 Link to the blog in the description below! 👇 #Volunteerism #CommunityImpact #HENSLEE #PeopleOps

🎒 School’s Back in Session! 📚 But that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop—how will YOU find time to volunteer this year? 🌟 As the school year kicks off, it’s the perfect time to start thinking about how you can keep making a difference in your community. Whether it’s an hour after school, a weekend project, or a special event, there are so many ways to stay involved with YVC! 🙌 ✨ Here’s How You Can Do It: Study Break Service: Take a break from homework and join a quick project. Helping others is the best brain boost! 🧠💡 Weekend Warriors: Dedicate a Saturday to a cause you care about. Grab some friends and make it a group effort! 💪 Plan Ahead: Look at your schedule and block out time for volunteering. It’s all about making it a priority! 📅 Volunteering doesn’t just help others—it helps YOU grow, learn, and have a blast! Ready to make this school year unforgettable? Let’s do this! 💙 #BackToSchool #YVC #VolunteerLife #YouthVolunteering #MakeTimeMakeADifference #SchoolAndService

Mental and behavioral health is so important when we consider whole-person health. Making sure we address these challenges with the youth is critical down the road. It was an absolute pleasure to help such a great cause with such a great team! #ibx #independencebluecross #medicare #medicareadvantage #bcbs #mentalhealth #behavioralhealth