Want to Help Others but don't know Where to Start?
ILikeNicePeople writes "So you're here on our ImaNicePerson.com gaining a little daily inspiration and now that you're all inspired to help others you can't decide what to do or where to turn.
Well as we've stated in previous NICE stories it can start in your own home or community. You can help neighbors, friends, and you can be nice to strangers you meet every day.
If you want to get more involved...GOOD FOR YOU!
On the local level you can find many volunteer opportunities through homeless shelters, churches, Departments of Family and Child Services, schools...or you can scan the phone book for local charities.
On the National Level we found a story on the Forbes Magazine website which describes to TOP 200 Charities in the United States. CLICK HERE to view the top 200. This article lists the charities along with data about their size, assets, fundraising efficiency, charitable committment, and donor dependency. More importantly, each charity ranked has a link to their web site. Click on these charity links and you can find TONS of different programs to help you choose your charity of choice.
It's never too late to help others and the opportunity to help others will always be available. It's up to YOU to "Make a Difference".
What is your favorite charity? What cause is most important to you? Who would you like to help the most?
Use these resources to find your niche. Then make the time to get involved. It's worth it. You'll live a much happier and more full life when you learn to give of yourself to help others.
Anonymous writes "Hi folks. We have had to take some time off from the site to focus on our families in this tough economy. It doesn't mean we don't believe in promoting kindness to those around us. It is vital to our society.
We hope those of you who visit for the right reasons still find joy in some of the Nice Stories written on our site. There are some great stories of kindness on here to inspire and warm hearts.
On the not so nice side, we have had over 17,000 spam comments on our site over the past few months. About once a week someone will come on the site and post links to sites which aren't necessarily nice. It's a shame these people exploit this site to build page rank for their sites.
Hopefully they'll eventually consider finding another place to post these links. We really prefer the Nice Stories stay on the site for those who need inspiration in their lives. There are plenty of other places to post these links. Please stop spamming our site.
May God bless all of you as you continue your journeys and help promote kindness throughout the World.
ILikeNicePeople writes "We hope you are all doing well. Thank you for visiting our site. It's been a while since we've posted because we've all had to focus on our jobs and families in this tough economy.
We hope you'll find plenty of nice stories to read on our site; and we hope you'll even register and post a few nice stories of your own to share with visitors to our site.
The World is full of Nice People, and this site is full of Nice stories about life.
tenderheart writes "Parents in College has team-up with Facebook Causes to raise funds in order to continue to provide resources to parents in college with support for economic challenges. Their GOAL is to raise 3, 000. We hope we can count on you to help. Please SPREAD THE WORD.........................
ENDS 12/31/09
Ask your friends to make a donation to PIC facebook causes page: Help Parents in College
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/322374/62597915?m=6d54c0aa click link to join
ILikeNicePeople writes "You've probably heard the saying "Turn the Other Cheek". If you haven't, it basically means...if someone is showing negativity towards you, i.e. slapping you in the face, it is often best to turn away than to get into a heated confrontation.
Face it, not everyone in this World is going to like everyone else. There may be others who are vicious, vindictive, jealous, or just angry at the World. These people may take out their frustrations on you.
While unfortunate it doesn't mean you need to stoop to their level when they bring this negativity to you.
I often tell my children, "Try not to Hate anyone". Instead, treat those who are not going to be your friends as someone you prefer to avoid.
For example, I have an acquaintance who is angry with the way their life has turned out. They constantly complain about their unhappy marriage, their unhappy homelife, their less than adequate material possessions, etc. It's no fun to listen to them complain all the time. Not only do they complain about their own situation; they also talk bad about others. Recently this couple tried to get me in trouble through my volunteer youth sports organization because they felt I was not putting their son in a prominent position.
Honestly, their son is in the best position to succeed, and he is enjoying his role. The only problem is his parents. Instead of confronting them with the truth I "Turn the other cheek" and continue to put my heart and soul into teaching these children life lessons and teamwork.
When these parents recently lost their jobs, we "hired" the husband to do some odd jobs. When he told us how we owed him, we paid double because we wanted to help them out. He barely even thanked us.
More recently the husband snapped at my wife when she made a small mistake. Having had enough, she snapped back against better judgement. What did the couple do? They went back to our youth association and tried to get my wife banned from attending our children's activities because she exemplified conduct which was a detriment to our organization.
We were approached by the organization, we explained the entire course of events, and they were surprised at how much hatred this couple showed towards us. We told the organization we would "make it go away", and we did just that.
This would be a time when most people would hate this couple. Instead, we "turn our other cheek" and choose to not associate with these people.
You don't have to hate and you don't have to fight back. When someone is hateful towards you, just avoid them. It's that easy. There are plenty of kind people in this World to associate with to fulfill your needs of friendship without having to spend your time trying to appease others who only want to make your life miserable to help them feel better about their own lives.
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