{"id":9138,"date":"2021-02-02T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/nao-categorizado\/volunteers-make-yourselves-at-home"},"modified":"2024-07-19T11:33:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T16:33:55","slug":"volunteers-make-yourselves-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/uncategorized\/volunteers-make-yourselves-at-home","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers: Make yourselves at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The etymology of the word &#8220;voluntary&#8221; teaches us that the term originated from the Latin &#8220;voluntariu&#8221;, meaning &#8220;one who acts of one&#8217;s own free will&#8221;. Our dictionaries are clear: a volunteer is someone who does or fails to do something without coercion or imposition from anyone; someone who does it of their own free will, without constraint or obligation; someone who does not want to make a profit. So a volunteer is someone who wants to donate. That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s someone who has the <i><em>expertise<\/em><\/i> in something and wants to give that knowledge away, without coercion or imposition. He knows how and wants to share, without expecting anything in return.<\/p>\n\n<p>But we know that there is a lot in return for volunteer work:<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8211; Donating time to a cause makes you feel lighter<br\/>&#8211; Volunteering helps you get to know yourself better<br\/>&#8211; You can develop new skills and feel more fulfilled<br\/>&#8211; It&#8217;s an opportunity to open your mind even wider<br\/>&#8211; You will learn to overcome obstacles<br\/>&#8211; You&#8217;ll meet like-minded people with similar values<br\/>&#8211; You&#8217;ll increase your network of contacts by socializing with other good people<\/p>\n\n<p>The CBA has several very interesting opportunities to get involved, whether as a volunteer or not: education, events, community information and support, communication and marketing, entrepreneurship, administration and finance, fundraising. Whatever your area of interest, we would love to have you working with us to make a difference.<br\/>Get in touch by email: <a href=\"mailto:info@culturabrasilaustin.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">info@culturabrasilaustin.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The etymology of the word &#8220;voluntary&#8221; teaches us that the term originated from the Latin &#8220;voluntariu&#8221;, meaning &#8220;one who acts of one&#8217;s own free will&#8221;. Our dictionaries are clear: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nao-categorizado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9139,"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culturabrasilaustin.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}