[brnstz]

The best way to donate your time is if you can contribute specialized skills.

Teaching kids to program? Really efficient.

Serving food? Not so efficient. Also consider there are a lot of unemployed people in this country who would be helped by a job created by your donation.

There are some less tangible factors here, and being involved in a community / serving as a role model can be valuable. But if you research, for example, international volunteering, they don't need people to do manual labor.

[noahrsg]

This is an excellent point and something I've been thinking a lot about lately. To be honest the work I do at Martin's probably doesn't have the best ROI in terms of potential impact. But it is something that I get happiness from (never thought that washing dishes for two hours straight would be "pleasure" but once a week it is a great break from staring at a screen).

Something that I would be interested in joining/starting is going to talk to inercity youth about technology and entrepreneurism. Gonna go look into this