Volunteers gain from their experiences and develop leadership skills, meet others, network, and gain knowledge of skills useful in other parts of their careers or personal life. Many successful professionals acknowledge that volunteering played an important part in their learning process. Volunteering allows for development of greater self-confidence, and expansion of your network. The activities you do can improve your own work quality, and will enhance your professional reputation and expertise. Volunteer opportunities fit someone at any stage in their career, and recent studies of retired people show strong benefits from the stimulation of volunteer jobs.
Work gives the retired volunteer a sense of commitment, and is very positive for health.
One of the greatest examples of retired professionals in volunteer work is former President Jimmy Carter, who has turned his retirement into an opportunity to do things he never had the opportunity to do earlier in life. Come and join in our AFS rewards. We have leadership positions and committees for a variety of tasks from resource policy reviews to meeting organizers. We can use your help.