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  1. the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself
  2. in the service of others.
  3. Gandhi can you imagine a world where people only thought
  4. of themselves and never donated or volunteered no soup kitchens,
  5. homelessness at an all time high Children are starving in
  6. a world full of selfishness if we cannot try to
  7. rally together to see the greater good and realize that
  8. helping others is helping ourselves and our world.
  9. I'm qualified to talk about this because I did my
  10. research on this certain foundation and I'm a strong advocate
  11. and helping others and giving more of yourself to others.
  12. I volunteered at numerous events and helped my husband and
  13. a few of his as well.
  14. I believe everyone should be invested in volunteering and raising
  15. the next generation to care about others without it, I
  16. fear for humanity and the exist um existence of human
  17. beings. Today, I will be talking about the decline in
  18. volunteering and the amazing work that a certain foundation does
  19. and why I think this is how we can combat
  20. egotism and greed in our world.
  21. To begin, I'd like to talk about some of the
  22. concerns our world is dealing with in regard to volunteering
  23. in its decline over the years.
  24. Oh, okay.
  25. There are many ways to volunteer yet.
  26. There is a decline in volunteering over the last few
  27. years. As seen in this chart, according to the Bureau
  28. of Labor Statistics website.
  29. Shortly after the 9 11 terrorist attacks, the United States
  30. reached a historic peak of 28.8% From 2003 to 2005,
  31. 2006. It suffered its first significant decline, dropping to 26.7%.
  32. And after that it maintained its volunteer rate until 2015.
  33. The volunteer rate has since declined As it is 24.9%.
  34. According to the do Good Institute site.
  35. There are more than 1.8 million active non profits in
  36. the US.
  37. alone. So it's not like there is an options while
  38. volunteering has declined online, terrible giving has been consistent for
  39. year over year growth fewer americans are engaging in their
  40. community by volunteering and giving than at any time in
  41. the recent past.
  42. According to the University of Maryland website, The most common
  43. barrier for people not volunteering is lack of free time
  44. not being interested in the volunteer role or nobody asking
  45. that person to volunteer.
  46. Yeah. After all these facts have been thrown at you.
  47. I would like to discuss how we can solve these
  48. concerns. Now.
  49. The most obvious thing would be, let's get people to
  50. volunteer. But if it were that easy, the national average
  51. wouldn't be 26%.
  52. According to the statistics.
  53. I the Travis Manion Foundation has multiple programs to entice
  54. people to help their fellow neighbors out.
  55. One of the biggest obstacles is getting people to care
  56. about something enough to want to help out.
  57. $2.5 billion American charities for military.
  58. The Travis Manion Foundation website says that it prides itself
  59. on empowering individuals to unite their communities through development programmes,
  60. training and events designed to empower veterans and families of
  61. the fallen to pass their values on to the next
  62. generation and the community at large.
  63. The Travis Manion Foundation report says 84% of its members
  64. who participate in Travis Manion Foundation initiatives agreed that the
  65. charity has provided them with a sense of community Due
  66. to their initiative and outreach.
  67. Travis Manion Foundation has reached over 60,000 people by their
  68. 9-11 heroes run and have helped over 115,000 people in
  69. 2020. Their core value beliefs are be accountable, purpose begins
  70. with passion fueled by it, gratitude and treat everyone with
  71. respect. Mhm.
  72. The Travis Manion Foundation has multiple ways to volunteer and
  73. outreach, from 5Ks to outreach programs to veterans as well
  74. as the youth in school.
  75. Their motto is, if not me, then who and the
  76. Travis Manion website, Character does matter, mentors develop character and
  77. leadership skills and young adults ground and evidence based field
  78. of positive psychology.
  79. They use a strength, strengths based program of positive psychology,
  80. an approach to develop character traits in the next generation
  81. through a combination of informal discussions and activity based learning,
  82. the character doesn't matter program builds relationships with young adults,
  83. helping them build character and leadership with team building, exercise
  84. and learning challenges as well as participate in a service
  85. project to honor the fallen.
  86. Imagine if people in your neighborhood decided to honor the
  87. fallen soldiers and military by taking this motto into their
  88. everyday life, what would that look like for future generations?
  89. If you cannot see the value in trying to make
  90. our communities better and honor the fallen, I fear the
  91. discord and egotism will continue to fester and pull us
  92. apart as a country, 55% of our veterans feel a
  93. disconnect from civilian life and more than one in three
  94. young people, which is over 16 million adults have never
  95. had a positive role model or mentor in their life.
  96. Now that we have a better idea about what Travis
  97. Manion Foundation is, let's talk about how you can get
  98. involved. You can check out the Travis Manion Foundation page
  99. And look more in depth that the programs I discussed
  100. earlier, there is a place to donate Travis Manion Foundation
  101. where 90% of their proceeds go to the character does
  102. matter Pro as well as the veterans and families who
  103. need it.
  104. The last thing you can do is trying to be
  105. an ambassador for Travis Manion Foundation and be the change
  106. you want to see in the world now that we
  107. know how we can connect with our community to support
  108. our cause.
  109. Let's bring us to a close, Even though the volunteer
  110. rate has slowly been declining since 2006 due to people
  111. being uninterested in volunteer roles as well as a lack
  112. of free time.
  113. The biggest obstacle is getting people to volunteer to get
  114. people to care and put enough motion into action, as
  115. well as the knowledge of where to start for volunteering.
  116. If we cannot rally together for the greater good and
  117. help bring mentorship to young adults to do better by
  118. their community.
  119. Our fear that our world will be consumed with selfishness.
  120. A quote by William James Act is of what you
  121. do makes a difference.
  122. It does