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Volunteering – coming together as a community, and assisting the nearby needy. The obvious problem is that freeing up the time to volunteer is liable to to waste very same time that could readily be put to much better use elsewhere. On the other hand, you’ll have more fun volunteering with your co-workers getting involved by your side! The obvious step is for other companies to follow the lead of firms like Adaptive Marketing LLC. In addition to programs like Shopping Essentials Plus created to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing handles the organizational duties to give its employees the time to give back to the community. Such initiatives were always rare, limited events – but this has come to be seen as just the beginning. For example, Adaptive Marketing has offered staff chances to help with anything from shoe recycling campaigns to local tree-planting weekends. With the pertinent information – date, location, time, specifics of event, etc. – announced in advance it is a simple matter for staff to decide the actual amount of time they’d be giving and what initiative they’d join. Making sure volunteers have their say in which activities the company supports is important. At Adaptive Marketing, the company behind Shopping Essentials Plus, members of staff are given the chance to choose from a wide variety of volunteer events in the local area. Earlier projects have seen improvements made in a wide assortment of areas including help and support for children and young adults, green projects, and events helping local arts and culture. A volunteer who enjoys himself is an effective volunteer, and as a result through offering such a variety of programs Adaptive Marketing can be certain that progress can be made in a great many areas.

Most often a company-supported charity initiative – fundraising with a local school or helping out at a homeless shelter – is done either as a one-off event or on a regular schedule in pursuit of a bigger goal. This means that if you can only find a few hours to help out at a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park or the public library’s used-book sale, you’ve still got plenty of time to contribute.

We’re sure you’ve heard a number of examples of companies giving back to the people who live nearby. A sense of community goodwill builds from the volunteer work done by Adaptive Marketing’s members of staff, and the members of staff of companies like it, over the course of these company sponsored programs. Helping others makes you feel better about yourself – just the sort of thing to motivate staffers in both their volunteer work and back behind their desks, too.

I expect you know that volunteer work is a great way to strengthen community bonds as well as bringing help to those in need. The obvious problem is that organizing your schedule so that you’re free to volunteer often actually squanders some of that valuable free time.

Consequently, firms have begun making themselves into organizing points helping their employees to support the community. One of the more significant examples is Adaptive Marketing LLC who developed financial and shopping benefits programs including SavingsAce (MVQ*SAVEACE) to consumers. If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of blood drives, perhaps a Christmas donation drive, but that’s no longer true in the modern day. The staff members of Adaptive Marketing have been given the opportunity to get involved in a wide variety of community initiatives with more and less effort required. In cases like these, the dates, times and locations of the events were posted, ensuring that staff knew what to expect, and how much of their time it would actually take.

It is essential to let volunteers back projects that fit their strengths. Firms involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, offer their staff a diverse list of events in their area. Previous projects have seen improvements made in areas as diverse as help and support for children and young adults, green awareness activities, and events related to artists. A happy volunteer is an effective volunteer, and as a result by offering so many initiatives Adaptive Marketing can be certain that progress can be made in as many projects as possible.

Most often a company sponsored charity project — fundraising with a homeless shelter, for example, or assisting at a local school — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. Even staff who say they don’t have time to volunteer can squeeze in the public library’s used book sale.

It’s common practice for companies to help out the people living around their base of operations. Goodwill is created by the volunteer work carried out by Adaptive Marketing’s staff, and the staff of companies like it, over the course of these company-sponsored initiatives. Assisting others makes you feel a lot better about yourself — just the sort of thing to leave stafrf motivated both in their volunteer work and back behind their desks, too.

The end of another election once again brings into focus the problem of Washington politicians raising money and running for re-election as soon as they get into office. Many citizens and various government-accountability advocacy groups have done little more than complain from time to time. However, some of them, along with many members of the media, have been pushing for term limits as a solution. But is that really the solution we need? Even with term limits, we would still be left with the same old problems, only in smaller doses, i.e., politicians would still be playing the same old campaigning and fund raising games for whatever amount of subsequent terms they are allowed. Also, we would still be stuck with the situation in which sitting Senators and Representatives (even those with no remaining terms for the office they hold) spend their time running for higher office.

I say forget about term limits in Washington as I have a better solution. I call it “term interruptions.” Here’s how it would work: No President/Vice President, Senator, or Representative could serve two consecutive terms in the same office and would have to sit out at least two years before being eligible for a different federal office although he/she could be elected to an unlimited number of terms in any number of federal offices. For example, a U.S. Representative could not succeed himself/herself in that office and would have to wait until he/she has been out of office for at least two years before being eligible for President/Vice President, a Senate seat, or any seat in the House of Representatives. In other words, a sitting President/Vice President, Senator, or Representative could not run for re-election and he/she could not run for any elective seat in the legislative or executive branches of the federal government. That way, they could all focus on serving their constituents rather than getting re-elected. They could use the two off-years for campaigning and raising money.

However, this proposal could be problematic for the U.S. House of Representatives, since its members currently serve only two-year terms. Under my plan, the House would see a complete turnover (all 435 members) every two years. Therefore, I would propose four-year terms for U.S. Representatives. Of course, we would still get a complete turnover in the House, only after every four years instead of every two years, so there would still be a problem.

To prevent a complete turnover every four years, terms could be staggered so that half the members of the House are up for re-election every two years. However, in the first House election under my plan, half of the House would get four-year terms, with the other half getting two-year terms. A way to determine who gets the four-year terms in the initial election would be as follows: The House member in each state with widest margin of victory in that election would get a four-year term. The 168 remaining members (on an at-large basis) with the next highest victory margins would also get four-year terms, for a total of 218. The remaining 217 members would get only two-year terms for that election only. For the next election only, members who got two-year terms would be allowed to run for re-election, without sitting out two years. Then, beginning with that election, they would all get four-year terms and the term interruptions rules would fully take effect.

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Terry Mitchell is a software engineer, free-lance writer, and trivia buff from Virginia, USA. He operates a website – http://www.commenterry.com – on which he posts commentaries on various subjects such as politics, technology, religion, health and well-being, personal finance, and sports. His commentaries offer a unique point of view that is not often found in mainstream media.

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