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[quote=Anonymous]Yes. We did Habitat for Humanity, delivered food baskets for the church, staffed and sorted the monthly food drive, my father coached our rec teams at various points, we were the family to our elderly neighbors who had no local family and took them to appointments, helped out with the maintenance of their house, etc. As soon as we could wield shovels, they sent us out to shovel for all the elderly folks on our street and individual volunteer work was expected as soon as we were old enough to go independently. At 13 I started volunteering twice a week at the local nursing home, at 15 I volunteered monthly at the local soup kitchen and generally stepped for anything needed... collecting donations at the local golf tournament, manning raffle ticket tables for the Exchange Club, tutoring elementary students in math, etc.

As an adult, I volunteer at my kids’ school, I’m president of the board of a non profit, a member of the board of a scholarship fund, I regularly give blood, and am always up to volunteer for one off events like food drives. We also give 10% of our income away a year. My parents also taught us to give to charity. [/quote]

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