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Thinly veiled brag?

Seriously, the only real volunteering I've done was for Habitat. I did about a dozen Saturdays with them over a few years while I was at college. There was a student group running the program and I was on their listserve. I'd show up at a place on campus and we'd drive down. I never did the framing work that you see on TV, it was mostly drywall and painting work.

I also helped raise a little money for them. The group sold raffle tickets at NHL games. We had to give most of the money to the team charity arm, but it was still fun because we got to see 2/3rds of the game.

I liked this organization because the work was interesting. Most charity work is rewarding, but not independently interesting IMHO. It was also easy to work with the campus group and there were a bunch of good people involved with that as well.