It only took one newspaper article to convince Carolyn Greene to volunteer at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. Greene, who graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law and moved to New York City, made monthly visits to her parent’s home in Lexington.
“I read all of the papers when I come home,” Greene said. “I saw an article in the Herald-Leader about volunteering and decided right then to volunteer.”
In January, Greene was laid off from her job in New York City and relocated to Lexington. She began volunteering during Kentucky Cup Reining, the first test event for the 2010 Games. After that she was hooked, and came back for every test event.
Greene has also worked every position available for volunteers. She has been an usher/greeter, worked at volunteer check-in, driven a golf cart, and worked in event services. Greene is now a full-time volunteer, working with Event Services and recruitment.
“After working for 40 years it was the first opportunity I had to take a break,” Greene said. “But in the meantime I wanted to keep busy; I see this as a way of doing that and it is expanding my network.”
Volunteering is sometimes hard because of other time commitments, but for Greene, volunteering provided her with an opportunity to have fun and make connections that could benefit her in the future. Not only that, Greene made new friends.
“You see people you have volunteered with and you become like a family,” Greene said. “I know volunteers on the competition side now, WEG staff, and this creates a much larger network.” More.
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