Young Leaders Society Volunteering Opportunities
Young Leaders Society thanks our generous sponsors:
Join a YLS Committee
There’s no time like the present to become more involved in
the community! Join the YLS board and volunteer to be a member of
our committees to help us create, plan, and organize events and
projects for our members.
For more information or to sign up for a committee, contact Susan Marler at 512.225.0371 or at susan.marler@unitedwaycapitalarea.org.
YLS Volunteer Day at ARCH
Once a month, YLS members help serve dinner at the newly opened
Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH), which houses a clinic,
day facility, and overnight shelter for Austin's 4,000 homeless.
Austin Resource Center for the Homeless
500 East 7th St
Austin, TX 78701
Please contact Susan Gustavson at susan.gustavson@ni.com to sign up and for more information.
Benefits of Volunteering:
- Volunteer work helps you realize the positive impact you can make in someone else's life.
- Learn new skills or volunteer in your area of expertise and teach your skills to others.
- Group volunteer projects can foster team spirit and bring together people from all walks of life.
- Be a positive role model to family and friends.
- Volunteering is a great way to enhance your résumé.
- Volunteering often communicates to others that you are ambitious, enthusiastic and care about the community.
- A Dow Jones Report noted that corporations interested in increasing the education of their top personnel should look to non-profit organizations over the nation’s business schools, “ Three to five years of volunteer work can provide management experience most corporations couldn’t provide over 20 years, if at all” PMA Leadership Briefs, August 2000.
YLS Newsletters
Latest Young Leaders Society Newsletters:
Volunteering Opportunities
Leadership Giving Impact
I’m Peg.
Last year, while on leave from my job, I found myself with more free time. I decided I wanted to get more involved in community activities. I attended the fall meeting of the United Way Women's Giving Network (WGN). That particular meeting happened to feature a speaker who talked to us about child well-being and the state of childcare in the city.
The presentation moved me deeply, and I became interested in improving the quality of childcare in Austin.
Also at that meeting, I learned that the WGN did not yet have a system in place to provide its members the opportunities to participate in volunteer activities.
