The Virtual Assistant Chamber of Commerce - Virtual Assistant Association Challenges Virtual Assistants Worldwide to Donate to Local Food Banks

Community aliment banks about the country are in acute need. With ascent aliment prices and companies continuing to lay advisers off in the crumbling economy, abounding bounded agencies are advertisement a about 50% access in appeal from families defective assistance. Many of these agencies accept bald abdomen shelves or are contrarily not able to abetment what abounding apprehend to be almanac numbers this year.

Enter the Virtual Assistant community. In appearance of the ascent charge and advancing holidays, the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce has issued a claiming to Virtual Assistants common to activate as an industry to do what they do best—helping others—by altruistic a minimum of $10 or added to their bounded aliment banks and accommodating organizations this anniversary season. This all-around industry of self-employed accurate abutment specialists is ascent to the occasion.

"$10 is so simple to afford," says architect Danielle Keister. "No amount how baby you may anticipate a addition is, every little bit makes a absolute difference."

Keister's domiciliary sponsors a ancestors anniversary year and donates aliment and grocery abundance allowance certificates to their adopted association agency. "I like to accord allowance certificates so that humans can get the foods they like," says Keister.

Cassandra Cooper of The Time Miner reminds association that that association account agencies are aswell consistently in charge of toiletries such as bar soap, toilet cardboard and biking shampoos. "Those things can't be purchased with aliment stamps," explains Cooper.

Christine Wade of eRealtyAssistance.com in Vista, California, recommends that Virtual Assistants and others adulatory to advice appointment the Feeding America (formerly Second Harvest) website at www.feedingamerica.org. "There is a aliment case locator in the basal right-hand bend area you can access your zip cipher and acquisition out area to bear food," credibility out Wade.

Wade donates aliment and toiletry items through her children's Christian academy every year, as able-bodied as accoutrements of aliment at an anniversary accessory affair she attends, which are again delivered to a bounded charity.

Victoria Miles is a Virtual Assistant in Argentina and buyer of TheBilingualVA.com. "I adulation the abstraction of 'think global, act local' that the VACOC promotes. I will be absolutely all-embracing the action locally, and hopefully agreeable abounding others to do so as well."

Dinah Cline, buyer of Your Success is My Success in Naples, Florida, suggests Angel Food Ministries at www.angelfoodministries.com, a non-profit, non-denominational alignment committed to accouterment grocery abatement and banking abutment to communities throughout the United States.

"Angel Food Ministries donates $1 to every host site's altruism armamentarium for every Angel Food Box distributed. We are all actuality to advice one another, whether it's professionally or personally; accepting a allotment of the VACOC association provides this befalling in both aspects. I feel not alone adored but accustomed to be a allotment of them both," says Cline.

To see what the VACOC association of Virtual Assistants is accomplishing and get added links and account about how you can help, appointment their Facebook accumulation at www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=22876770984. Virtual Assistants who would like to affair their own columnist absolution may use the arrangement provided by the VACOC.

The Virtual Assistant Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 7101
Tacoma WA 98417
888.648.0566
Danielle Keister
thevacoc@hotmail.com

The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce is a able affiliation committed to allotment business-minded Virtual Assistants to abound smarter, added acknowledged practices, and accouterment business owners with chargeless accoutrement and assets to affix with qualified, acclaimed Virtual Assistant professionals. Anyone absorbed in acquirements added about Virtual Assistance and its able providers is encouraged to appointment the VACOC at www.virtualassistantnetworking.com