Volunteering is Sexy by Love of Friends: Project one

Volunteering is Sexy.

LoF Team member Kelsey and I work together at Coro Pittsburgh, and we collaborate all the time on events…we know how to throw a GREAT event. We both share a commitment to volunteering, and when you have friends like ours that are equally involved in various do-gooder type projects, well, you often spend much of your free time volunteering.

I identify as a Hybrid Socialist.

Stay with me here, things will all come together. My identification as a Hybrid Socialist, my desire to increase the number of people that identify as such, and my penchant for helping connect people to other people led me to develop what I call “Perfect Hybrid Socialist first dates”. What’s this you say? My definition of Hybrid Socialism (though the manifestation of Hybrid Socialism is different for each person), and more about Hybrid Socialist first dates is outlined in this blog post Kelsey wrote for SponsorChange.org, another fabulous organization that we love.

Kelsey soon developed the slogan: Volunteering is Sexy, and boy is it ever.

This is how we feel: you volunteer at an event probably hosted by one of your friends. Your friend(s) love you for helping out, you get out of the house for a bit, you give back to the community, AND you get to attend whatever event you’re volunteering at for FREE..but it gets better: your chances of meeting people you haven’t met before is very high.

Meeting new people is important.

For me, I LOVE people. I just recently described this love for people as bordering on the neurotic. (Don’t be afraid though, I’m fairly harmless.) For some, they might want to mix up their group of friends, jazz things up a bit. For others, hell, they’re single and want to meet other people that are COOL…and someone that hasn’t dated all of your friends already, and they don’t want to have to go to a bar or church…or yoga* to do so…again…Well, that probably won’t stop happening.

It is this colliding of so many great things, sprinkled with the opportunity to meet, flirt with and get to know someone new that makes volunteering sexy.

Volunteering is fun…and sexy, and with the numerous groups around that need your talent, muscle power and brains (not in a zombie way) you can volunteer in a manner that suits your personality best. If you are looking for something to try out, get in touch with us at loveoffriendspgh@gmail.com and we can offer you a whole host of ideas, or keep reading the blog for Perfect Hybrid Socialist first dates. Kelsey even tried to go on a Hybrid Socialist first date.

*The Love of Friends Team loves yoga. I highly encourage people to practice yoga. I personally don’t recommend going to yoga to meet people.