What if your summer could be more than just rest and an escape? With summer volunteering for families, you can make memories while making a difference.

Spark up your summer by exploring summer volunteering for families through Activate Good. It’s easy to get started with Activate Good. There, you can find projects and programs that allow you to take action and address community needs that are both meaningful and interesting to your family. Search the hundreds of opportunities in the Activate Good database for youth and families and sign up for one that meets your schedule. It’s that easy!

Volunteering as a family helps build strong bonds in several unique ways. As you work together to make a difference, you define your family values – who you are and how you function in the world. This serves as a “north star” that will guide your family unit through making decisions, starting with browsing Activate Good’s offerings and deciding where to volunteer. Your “north star” can also help your family become better at solving problems and conflicts together and with less strife. Additionally, serving others in need usually boosts our sense of gratitude for the life we have and a renewed appreciation for those we live with. Lastly, volunteering is a unique experience that creates powerful memories for your family to cherish for years to come.

Volunteers learn about life in unique and powerful ways. It’s one thing to read about complex world problems and how to solve them in a textbook. It’s another to experience it firsthand. As a volunteering family, you can see how multiple systems work together to serve people in your community. You can learn how these systems were created, what might work better, and how you can apply what you learned to other situations. You can search Activate Good’s volunteer database to help your family select the types of volunteer service and locations you’d like to try. Your family members will undoubtedly hone skills such as organizing, communicating, making decisions, and solving problems; lifelong skills that say, “I can do this!”

There’s a first time for everything, as the saying goes. Volunteering is a great way to explore new communities and try something new in a fun and relaxed way. You will also meet some great people! And are bound to hear interesting stories and share a good laugh or two. Most of all, being a volunteer is more than just a fleeting moment of fun. It can leave you and your family with a more profound sense of joy, knowing that you also made a difference for others.

Get started on your new family adventure in volunteering today!