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Winter holidays and cold weather inspire many people "'Tis better to think about giving and volunteering during this time of yeargive . Sharing and helping are often part of traditions for Christmas, harvest festivals, Solstice, Chanukah and other religious or secular holidays. The season when many are inspired to be generous coincides with when many feel more vulnerable or alone due to holidays, winter weather, or shorter days and more darkness."
Teams who join together in [[:Category:Philanthropic_Team_Building|philanthropic team building activities]] get all the benefits of team building with an extra glow of feeling that their Winter holidays and cold weather inspire giving efforts are also enhancing their group's communication, skills, enjoyment, and identitysharing. There are endless ways Reaching out to give as the wider community can become a team, including building and creating items which will then be donated, raising money as a team, collecting new 's tradition during the season when many people feel vulnerable or used goods, and doing community service for those who are in needlonely.
Consider the list of Groups that join together in [[:Category:Philanthropic_Team_Building|philanthropic team building activities]] we have started compiling here on Teampedia as a good starting place. Teams do clean-up on playgrounds or at community centers, serve meals at soup kitchens, construct ramps, teach computer skills... Many [[Team_Building_Companies|get all the benefits of team building companies]] listed in our directory offer , with the know-how and materials to help your group with onsite team building activities in which your team extra glow that comes of generosity. Projects that provide for others can build bikes, wheelchairs, also be welcome substitutes for one more holiday party or welcome wagons which are then donated to people in needyet another gift exchange.
Some The endless ways to give as a team include creating gifts, repairing items. raising money, and collecting goods for donation; and providing community service. Consider the growing list of [[:Category:Philanthropic_Team_Building|philanthropic team building activities have become common]] here on Teampedia. Teams clean-up playgrounds; serve meals at soup kitchens; construct ramps; teach computer skills ... Several [[Team_Building_Companies|companies]] listed in our directory offer the know-how and materials for onsite building of bikes, such as wheelchairs, or welcome wagons for people in need. One holiday giving activity that is now common:[[Adopt a Family]]: facilitated Facilitated by a charitable agency, a work team gets receives general information about the ages, sizes, and wishes of adults and children in a family, and the . Each team member buy provides appropriate gifts or donate donates funds for a representative to do the shopping. A variety of such giving involves In one version, tags in a display on which paper tags give the age and a few hints ideas about a personeach family member's needs or wishes; each team member takes on or more . Team members select tags and replaces it at the display replace them with an appropriate gift, gifts. (This is often done with "Christmas treesOften," but because not all givers nor receivers the tags are Christian, we encourage alternative, universal decorating a Christmas tree and the gifts are then arranged under it. Alternative symbols and decorationdecorations can be more universal inclusive - consider a flower garden display, with each flower an adult or child in the family.) The team can may enjoy getting together to do the wrapping of wrap the gifts. Usually, the identity of the family is not revealed , and the contact and delivery are managed by the agency. Teampedia encourages people to create opportunities for giving together in any and all seasons. Here's one year-round model, for a neighborhood in which people want such help: Before the holidays, pot houseplants together. In the spring, help plant a community garden. In the summer, have a lawn weed-in and watermelon event. Throw a leaf-raking and popcorn-eating party in the fall. As a bonus, in March, bring in a community organization to establish neighborhood emergency preparedness. The team that gives together . . . :Philanthropy means "love of humanity."::“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”:― Winston Churchill ::“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”:― Kahlil Gibran
"'Tis better to give . . ." is said often during this season, yet Teampedia encourages people to create opportunities for giving together in any and all seasons. In the autumn, have a wandering party of leaf-raking to people who need such help; then return in the summer to mow the lawns of your neighbors. Help plant a community garden in the spring. Teach computer skills in January... Give your team the gift of giving.
