The Royal Neighbor Issue 2 2007

Your Money
Volunteer efforts can offer tax breaks
More and more individuals are volunteering these days for the good of others. People who volunteer their services generally do so as a gesture of goodwill, but there may be tax breaks available from the federal government for their generosity. 

You & Your Family
Follow your sense of adventure and vacation with your heart
Getting away to refresh and refuel is important to Janice Jones, a member of the Rock Island, IL, chapter. Her job as an actuary keeps her behind a desk five days a week, so vacation time is a welcome diversion. But on her most recent vacation, she wasn’t relaxing on the beach soaking up the sun. She was in Israel spending part of her time pulling weeds, cleaning store rooms, and collecting children’s clothing. “It was a remarkable, eye-opening experience and a chance to ‘put your feet to your faith’.”

Front & Center
Meet Anne Roosevelt – mother, leader, businesswoman, volunteer
A granddaughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Anne Roosevelt never knew her grandfather, but enjoys wonderful memories of her grandmother. Although not the typical diaper-changing, cookie-baking grandmother, Eleanor was warm and affectionate and a great inspiration. Anne, with two grown daughters of her own and a job as Vice-President, Global Corporate Citizenship, for The Boeing Company, takes after her busy grandmother.

Your Health
Get a ‘helper’s high’ and reap the benefits of volunteering
All across America, retired adults are building Habitat for Humanity homes, high school students are feeding the homeless, corporate employees are cleaning up neighborhoods, and fraternalists are hosting fund-raisers for worthy causes. As members of Royal Neighbors, we know that volunteering makes us feel good. And now there is scientific proof of what we’ve known all along!