No bones about it. Money can buy you some delicious Breckenridge CO real estate, Keystone CO real estate, Dillon CO real estate, and on throughout Summit County. But even the ski resort life of the rich, famous, and wealthy can get boring if it is missing an avenue of service and fulfillment. After you have it all, you will burst at the seams if you cannot give. However, there is another law at play. In order to get it all, you must give to make room for more.
Summit County’s volunteer opportunities can fill the vacuum as much for the newly retired as well as for newcomers to Breckenridge real estate. Choose your niche from a long list of organized efforts that will benefit your neighbors of Breckenridge real estate along with the open spaces, wildlife, visitors, children, and pets. Volunteer to uplift the cultural features, educational features, and/or safety features of Breckenridge real estate.
Many fresh-air ways to give involve stewardship. The Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) has a mission to protect and preserve the natural integrity of the states 14,000-foot peaks through active stewardship and public education. Their next project involves partnering with the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center to improve the trail to Quandary’s summit with minimal impact to the sensitive alpine tundra environment. Then they will be collecting and teaching about seeds at Mount Evans. See www.14ers.org.
Then there is the Summit Huts Association that provides inspirational backcountry refuge for self-propelled mountain recreational users. They also prepare spectacular natural settings for community, charitable, and educational programs. Recently, the SHA worked on Francie’s Cabin, moving wood, stacking, chopping, cleaning, composting, and trail building. Their next projects are Janet’s Cabin and Ken’s Cabin in October. See www.summithuts.org.
Fulltime and part-time residents are welcome to volunteer at the Summit County Volunteer Center helping a long list of organizations and citizens to find the perfect ways to serve. Matching skills with opportunities, the Volunteer Center provides a wonderful hub for organizations and volunteers.
The wide variety of existing organizations makes it easy to utilize pool the talents of the volunteers to create better-than-ever services for the community.
Sign up to help the American Red Cross to Theatre, Film, Art, the Performing Arts, Orchestra, Song, and Music, to the Outdoor Education Center, the Ski Club, Home Care and Hospice, Small Business Development, the Bird Observatory, English Springer Rescue, Dillon Ranger District, Nagle’s Nest Wilderness, Info Centers, Habitat for Humanity, Places for young adults and children, the Keystone Science School, Mental Health, Mentoring, Legal Services, Snowboard Outreach, Hockey, Libraries, Senior Services, Swim Team, Rescue Team, Youth Baseball, Day Camps, Historical Societies, Recycling, Public Radio, School District, TAME Foundation, Veterans, Medical Center, and many more.
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