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iQuestions Faculty, Barbara Glanz 
 
 
Question: 
 
What are some ways I can blend work and service? 
 
Answer: 
 
As you’re blending areas of your life, it’s really important to blend 
service into your work life. This can be done either individually, or it 
can be done organizationally.  
 
Organizationally, many companies allow their employees to have 
certain hours a month that they volunteer somewhere. And those 
hours are paid hours that the employer absorbs in order to share that 
employee’s service with another organization.  
 
So choose where your passion is and then find several hours a week or 
a month that you, on paid time, go out and work in that organization. 
That’s one of the ways. 
 
Individually, you can do things like serving at a tutoring program— and 
again, this can be part of an organization or it can be something you 
choose as an individual.  
 
When my son was in high school, my husband and he once a week got 
on a bus and they went with about twenty other people down into the 
inner city of Chicago, and they tutored young people in a school 
system that was very under privileged. It was a wonderful way for my 
husband and son to share serving.  
 
 
 
It was supported by the Chicago Tribune, which was the business that 
he worked for. What he did was he asked if he could bring his son 
along with him and teach him the value of service.  
 
Going out in the community and reading to children in the grade 
schools— during a lunch hour even— can be a wonderful way to blend 
work and service together. 
 
There are lots of ways you could lend work and service: giving blood, 
donating to worthy causes, food drives, things like that. But always 
thinking about the world outside of your organization, and what you 
can do to contribute.  
 
Try tying that into your work life to make this world a better place for 
people, where maybe it’s not so good. 
 
So how can you come up with some creative ideas, and help your 
organization also to find some creative ideas to blend work and 
service? 
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