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It's no secret that I'm on a community service kick lately. I still hope you'll go give blood.

On Monday I saw a tweet from Google that sent me to a post on their blog about a new site they launched that day. The site is AllForGood.org, and they explain the purpose and reason for creating the site pretty well in the blog entry. In addition, a new government site — Serve.gov — has been launched, and appears to be spearheaded by Michelle Obama, that apparently just links to AllForGood. On either site, you can search for volunteering opportunities in your local area.

Now, of course it's not all-inclusive. There are surely lots of opportunities in your area (and everywhere else) that aren't listed, but there are also lots that are. There aren't any listed within a reasonable distance from my home, but it did inspire me to look for other things that are.

I'm still looking for some way to get involved with the American Cancer Society locally, but I'm not sure if there's a local branch/chapter I can help. I did find another organization locally that I'm interested in though. Our county SPCA needs volunteers, and (I'm still looking into it, but) the time requirement seems like it might even fit my schedule.

When we lived in Maryland, Megan and I would spend some of our weekend time down at the Humane Society walking the dogs. The Chester County SPCA has some similar volunteer opportunities that they say involves training, exercising, and socializing the dogs. Sounds like fun to me, and if I can do it for a few hours, one Saturday a month, then that would be a perfect fit.

So even if you can't donate blood, I hope you'll try to find something that you enjoy doing, near you, that's easy for you to participate in, for the good of the community.