Welcome to
Volunteerblackstone.com
You can help build a strong Blackstone Valley
by volunteering for any of several programs and activities occurring throughout
the year. Use this website to view
available
opportunities
and sign up using our
online form.
We hope this will be a rewarding experience and
thank you for your interest and participation.
The Power of Volunteers
Many
organizations place a great deal of effort and value on cultivating, acquiring
and maintaining donors. We often neglect a very important subset of our internal
network, the volunteer.
About 61 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once
between September 2005 and September 2006, according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. About 43 percent of volunteers
become involved with their main organization after being asked to volunteer,
most often by someone in the organization. A slightly smaller proportion, about
2 in 5 volunteers, became involved on their own initiative; that is, they
approached the organization.
