There are certainly many benefits to volunteering. The beauty of it all is that while you are helping others, you are also actually helping yourself.

Volunteering abundantly benefits those who are being helped. But did you know that there are actually some surprising benefits of volunteering for you as the volunteer?

Read Dru Hartley's great suggestions for bringing joy to local families by being a secret Santa for nonprofits like Transition House, Foodbank, and Unity.

We have a real example in our own community of an organization that moved from scarcity thinking to an abundance approach: Santa Barbara Foodbank. This article highlights Foodbank’s CEO, Erik Talkin's radical model.