[Community-service] service through legislation?

[Chris Parsons]

Hi all,

This is a really interesting question. My opinion is that activities like 
this would fall under advocacy rather than community service. As Roanna 
pointed out, these types of activities do ultimately have the potential to 
help people in the community, but I think that there is a difference between 
advocacy activities, which tend to more directly involve politics and 
legislation, and community service activities, which can certainly involve a 
specific cause--hunger and homelessness, animal welfare, education, etc., 
but which I think also involve more direct means of providing help for or 
impacting a particular population or issue, such as cleaning up a park, 
volunteering at an animal shelter, or packing food at a food pantry.

Chris


-----Original Message----- 
From: Darian Smith via Community-service
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 9:03 PM
To: Community Service Discussion List
Subject: [Community-service] service through legislation?

Hi all,
Something that has  periodically come up  in conversation  as it relates to 
what we do as the Community Service Division is the idea of activities such 
as working on legislative campaigns, or pushing local or national 
legislation and  whether or not it would be considered community service?
I am most  interested to know your thoughts.
thanks so much,
  Darian
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