what to(not to) include under community/EC activities ?

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Hi,

I think I'm below average in community/EC activities, I was involved in the following but am not sure
whether writing about some of them would hurt/help. Please advise/comment.
I personally think some of them are basic humanitarian stuff which I never claimed to be involved.
I categorized them as below...

(+) - would help
(-) - would hurt (humanitarian stuff - why am I writing these :?)
(*) - not sure

+ Founding member of a small group of 5 whose intial engagement was to help fund medical needs of those
in needy, primarily children. As we grew in size(23-25), we started involving in other activities like
providing infrastructure help (both funding and building) for less-funded schools and occasionally have
sessions on soft skills.
+ Member of volunteer group @ work with special interest in enviroment friendly activities (like escrap events,
earth day, etc.,)

- Active American red cross blood donor (every 112 days as long as I'm eligible i.e., if I don't travel to
malaria prone countries)

- Registered Marrow donor

* I'm yet to participate in "Habitat for Humanity" program (in 4 weeks)
* this sounds funny but in my earler work place I've done tiny things like - pooling people and have some
team based games/competitions/fun and celebrating b'day's of team members for years which infact
became a culture later on.

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by Lisa Anderson » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:49 pm
Dear greenctzn,

I think you have some great EC activities to discuss in your applications, especially with the group you started to fund medical needs. I don't think any of the things you list are negatives or should be necessarily excluded. I think most are actually related in that they aim to help people with medical needs, whether those are supplies, services or blood/marrow.

If you are definitely going to do the Habitat program, then I think you could include it on your list of activities. As for the social activities in the office, I think these things are fine to mention if they were outside your assigned duties.

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by greenctzn » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:00 pm
Thanks much Lisa