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Why Connections are the Key to Valuable Service

Almost everyone can admit to performing community service through quick volunteer opportunities that limit interaction with a community. We feel a temporary sense of fulfillment knowing that we did some good in the world. However, we often continue on with our lives unaffected…

The Importance of Empathy in Service: Comparing Traditional Service Models and Mutual Aid

While some argue that traditional service models offer support, they can also create hierarchies. Mutual aid is the best type of service because the empathy you learn in the…

The Striking Balance of Social Change and Charity

In our modern world where the advancement of a certain group seems to simultaneously set back other groups, service becomes all the more crucial in terms of bringing about equity. Service involves varying types of social contributions, namely…

Service As a Small Fish

Volunteering for some people can often leave themselves feeling shallow, ineffective, and downcast about their service efforts. A common misnomer when it comes to serving is that it will always make you warm and bubbly on the inside knowing you’ve made the world a better place…

The Truth Behind Good Service Work

While some argue that charity work is ineffective since it does not create the proper change for the issues the community faces, good service expressed through active dedication is responsive to people’s needs.

Charity and Social Change: How Do The Two Mix?

When asked about volunteering, many picture handing out food in a food bank or helping out in a dog shelter. Though these are examples of service, can they really be defined as “good” when looking at the broader picture? To some, good service is…

Can only charitable acts help the injustice system?

Good service can come in multiple ways for the people who were affected by the horrible injustice system, from doing charitable acts for them to advocating for social change. But some are better than others. I used to say that short-term…

Shifting toward Social Change — Draft

Service is the action of helping or doing work for someone. In our society service is often seen as a one-time act of charity such as a beach clean-up or food drive. This concept has been taught to us early in our lives by the school system that organized these…

The Importance of Community Engagement in Volunteer Work

People often argue that good service is good charity work, however, this can create an uneven power dynamic that results in the person providing service pitying the person receiving the service. I believe that good service is…