{"id":24128,"date":"2017-04-10T14:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T21:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24128"},"modified":"2017-04-10T14:27:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T21:27:17","slug":"californians-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/californians-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/esacto.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably never heard of\u00a0Mike Flynn, Knight Smart, and Charles Bussey, but thousands of kids have them \u00a0to thank (plus many more) for the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/easter\/sacramento-egg-hunts.html\">East Sacramento Pancake Breakfast\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Easter Egg Hunt <\/a>which takes place this year on April 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>What inspires individuals to volunteer?\u00a0Sometimes a friend asks for\u00a0help, or maybe you feel like giving back. Whatever the reason, the need for volunteers\u00a0is\u00a0great.\u00a0\u00a0In the case of East Sacramento Kiwanis Club (eastsackiwanis.com), the\u00a0Pancake Breakfast is a fundraiser while\u00a0Egg Hunts are directed by its\u00a0sponsored youth and Circle K Club at Sac State. Kiwanis clubs all over California, the U.S. and approx. 90 countries offer opportunities\u00a0to get involved.\u00a0\u00a0The majority of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/easter\/california-easter.html\">egg hunts in California<\/a> are made possible by volunteers so if this is your interest, contact local\u00a0planners and see if you can help out.<\/p>\n<p>Another one-time project for volunteers not looking for extended\u00a0commitment is Earth Day. California State Parks \u00a0(calparks.org\/help\/earth-day\/) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/earthday\/california-earthday.html\">looking for volunteers<\/a>\u00a0at more than 30 parks &amp; beaches throughout the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably never heard of\u00a0Mike Flynn, Knight Smart, and Charles Bussey, but thousands of kids have them \u00a0to thank (plus many more) for the annual East Sacramento Pancake Breakfast\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Easter Egg Hunt which takes place this year on April 15, 2017. What inspires individuals to volunteer?\u00a0Sometimes a friend asks for\u00a0help, or maybe you feel like giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}