How We Set Community Service Priorities?—?The Personal & Spiritual Parts of Life (which affect our work)
Volunteering is a gift for the volunteer; In fact research shows that those who volunteer have lower mortality rates, greater functional ability, and lower rates of depression than those who do not volunteer. It’s not just for the wealthy. If you’re like us, and you’re not wealthy, then you need to find a way to budget time and energy for it. Like many things, more is not necessarily better. For example, in the Bay Area there exists #1700+ different NonProfits, many of them pursuing worthwhile missions. Choices are necessary in this context. We’ve had several friends and acquaintances express a desire to have a system of their own for choosing between volunteer opportunities. This post is a promise I’ve made to them to share how we go about prioritizing our community commitments.
From our perspective, here’s a snapshot for how we decide on which volunteer opportunities to commit to.
The expanded version of this was originally posted on medium here https://medium.com/@SherriDouville/how-we-set-community-service-priorities-the-personal-spiritual-parts-of-life-c91c85e1a603
Sherri Douville is CEO and board member for Medigram, the modern, mobile communication platform and system for physicians. At Medigram, Sherri leads a world-class team of technology, healthcare, physician, and business executives in Medigram’s mission to eradicate the leading cause of preventable death, a delay in information. Sherri has 15 years of healthcare experience in product development, sales and marketing including with Johnson & Johnson, and as a health care product development and business consultant. She has a BioPhysics degree and has completed three certificates in electrical engineering and computer science through MIT. Ms. Douville is the incoming NorCal HIMSS membership committee chair. Sherri has previously been both co-chair of the NorCal HIMSS Annual Innovation conference and a member of the nominating committee. Sherri also advises Health IT, Medical Informatics, and genetics startup companies; Sherri and her husband, Dr. Art Douville have volunteered together with a variety of NonProfits including as a member of the Board of Fellows for Santa Clara University.