| Because community service is performed free of | | | | efforts that typically support fundraising for |
| charge, almost any form of volunteerism can find a | | | | community service are: door-to-door canvassing, |
| place within community service. From physicians that | | | | outreach to businesses and corporations and, where |
| offer their services at free clinics to food pantry | | | | a non-profit organization is involved, grant writing. As |
| volunteers, community services are characterized by | | | | with community outreach, fundraising opportunities |
| a passion for community betterment and not a | | | | can be found in every conceivable area of service |
| particular skill set or educational background. | | | | and welcome anyone that is willing to donate their |
| However, if you would like to donate your time and | | | | time or skills to raising money. |
| you are looking for service areas that contain the | | | | Teaching or Educating |
| most opportunities; below, we list and describe the | | | | Teaching and educating opportunities include but are |
| four most common community services according to | | | | not limited to traditional classroom situations. For |
| the University of California's 2008 Civic Engagement | | | | example, teaching and educating opportunities also |
| Module. | | | | focus on things such as: educating about |
| Community Outreach | | | | communicable diseases, teaching a trade or a skill, |
| Community outreach refers to a service endeavor | | | | money management and educating to improve |
| that "reaches out" to a community in need. In most | | | | literacy. In many cases, pursuing a teaching or |
| cases, community outreach is targeted toward a | | | | educating opportunity does not require a teaching |
| particular need and therefore implies helping a certain | | | | certificate or training certification. However, where |
| group of people. For example, a medical clinic that | | | | teaching or educating efforts focus on finance or |
| focuses on helping AIDS victims may be set up in an | | | | health, certain credentials or experience may be |
| impoverished country or particular area of a city. | | | | required. |
| Conversely, a community outreach effort may focus | | | | Tutoring |
| on supplying a good and not a service, such as an | | | | Within teaching and educating opportunities lie |
| outreach organization that provides winter clothing | | | | tutoring opportunities, particularly where the focus is |
| for the homeless. If you would like to help a | | | | educating people in academic subjects that can |
| community in a particular way, chances are that you | | | | enhance their standard of living by leading to |
| can find an outreach effort that focuses on your | | | | increased job opportunities, such as English and Math. |
| interest. | | | | Tutoring can be performed in relation to a particular |
| Fundraising | | | | community service project or on a long-term basis |
| Because community service opportunities depend as | | | | through a community betterment organization. In |
| much on donated money as they do on donated | | | | many cases, volunteers find tutoring more rewarding |
| time and goods, fundraising campaigns are constantly | | | | than teaching or educating because it gives them a |
| underway worldwide. Three types of fundraising | | | | closer look at a student's progress. |