PARTYSMART

PartySmart is a volunteer organization. We depend on your active, creative participation at all levels, from outreach workers to board of directors, and everything in between... Many of our daily activities help us to build social capital. We must begin to recognize these activities as valuable, and not merely as indulgent or unproductive. We build social capital not only through voluntary service and philanthropy, but also through work (paid or unpaid) and local commerce. Among our peers, friends and family, and within our community, all of our civic service and social engagement, our gift-giving and our informal trade also build social capital. However, a gift given and then returned accomplishes nothing, as neither do the sale and return of goods in commerce. In general, in the exchange of gifts or goods for sale, only personally-added value and other value added locally within the community contribute to social capital. In the case of a business, the value added is attributable to..

Primary location: Santa Fe United States