Civic Engagement Project Analysis

Being involved in civic engagement helps bring our community together forming a stronger community, creates a difference in the community, and helps solve important issues. My main goal during my civic engagement project was to help end hunger in our community by having a food drive. There are some challenges and some things that were fun when it came to my project. Spending time doing civic engagement work helps teach valuable lessons. Experiencing a civic engagement project once may help more people become involved if they have a positive experience. Volunteering at United Way for my civic engagement project helped me make a positive impact on the community around me.
The opportunity I chose for my the civic engagement project was to team up with United Way of Bay County and do a food drive that was a part of “Feeding your Neighbors Food Drive.” I chose this opportunity after going to a few different places because I felt I could make the biggest impact. This opportunity included a food drive that would help stock local pantries for the winter months. Also, United Way is a non-profit …show more content…
Seeing many people come out on a beautiful October day to donate made me smile. Throughout the day we filled many boxes and many boxes were already filled by outside donations at different locations. All the food that was donated made me feel like we were making a huge impact in our society; therefore, it made collecting food donations my favorite part of my project. Another part of my civic engagement project that I liked was getting everything ready for the main event. I really got to take the lead on this project; I decorated the front window of United Way so the children that came to the event could get a picture in front of it. I also made materials that were part of the Halloween Duo event: certificates, raffle items, and goodie