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Guidelines : For Community Service

Thank You for Service to Community

Guidelines and Alternate Phrases

• Thank the reader for the service to the community.
• Thank you for sharing your time and your expertise with us on the recent Fullerton project.
• You have rendered an invaluable service to the community with your involvement on the Fullerton project.
• Our community has profited greatly from your energy and inspiration surrounding the Fullerton project.
• Your time, money, and emotional energy have been well spent on the Fullerton project.
• Be as specific as possible about the individual’s contribution. Mention details of the work, the hours spent, the positive result, or any personal expense involved. Avoid being so general as to make this sound like a form letter sent to all participants on a project.
• Include your hope that the effort has brought the reader personal benefit and satisfaction.
• I hope you immediately realize the community’s goodwill for your efforts.
• Although I’m sure it was not your motivation in the least, we do hope that you experience an immediate increase in your own professional practice because of your generosity on this project.
• We hope you’ve gained personal satisfaction in watching the enthusiasm of our young people who are recipients of your efforts.
• In some small way, we hope you’ll know the lasting benefit you’ve achieved for the community.
• We hope the result brings you great satisfaction throughout the years.
• We trust the overwhelming response your leadership generated will bring you great personal joy.
• As you see the many ways your service has benefited needy families, we hope you’ll remember your efforts with great satisfaction and pride.
• We hope you share great pride with the community for your efforts on this protect.
• The goodwill your efforts have generated is certain to be felt by you and your staff and family in the months to come.
• We hope in some small way, you yourself have found satisfaction in serving in this campaign.
• We know you, too, are proud of the contribution on behalf of your family and your fellow employees.
• We hope you, too, will reap the benefits of your efforts on behalf of the city. Acts of graciousness and generosity such as yours often have a way of returning to the benefactor.

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Example 1: Thank you for your activity for the benefit of the public

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Dear Mr. Mikolowitzski:

On behalf of the Town Theater, I want to express our great appreciation for your efforts and those of your staff in making available the Pistone Recreation Center for our productions during our own building renovations.

I know your generosity in making the center available to us was not without personal expense to your own organization. The utility bills increased because of our rehearsal and production time, as well as the expense of janitorial work.

As a very small token of our appreciation, we are enclosing 10 lifetime complimentary memberships for distribution to your senior executives or anyone within your organization especially involved in arranging our temporary use of the building.

In addition to enjoying the theater’s productions, we hope you also gain personal satisfaction not only in helping to minimize our own renovation difficulties but in providing a way for the entire citizenship to continue to enjoy the arts. Thank you. We trust the community will remember over the years your generosity of spirit.

Sincerely,
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Example 2: Thank you for community service letter

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Dear Charles:

I know you have expended a great deal of personal effort in serving on the various top committees and task force of the International Business Committee of the Chamber of Commerce during the past five years.

To thank you adequately is impossible. You spent long, long after-business hours on the various projects. You took great care to see protocol was followed in each situation and that no other board members felt slighted in the decisions made. Finally, your business expertise and personal communication skills were invaluable.

I do hope you have gained some inner satisfaction in knowing through your efforts you have made the city a better place to live and work.

Thank you sincerely for all the wholehearted assistance.

Cordially,
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Example 3: Letter for community service thanks

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Dear Deidre:

Thank you for the time you have taken to help restore the Moore House to its former splendor. Without your efforts in organizing the restoration, this project would not have been completed so quickly. The Historical Homes Committee is indebted to you.

We know from experience the huge amount of time it takes to raise volunteers to do the restoration and to locate businesses willing to supply restorations materials. You must have spent a good portion of your after-work hours on the phone to have involved so many of our community’s residents and businesses.

What we on the Committee appreciate the most, however, was your willingness to work on the volunteer paint committee. It is one thing to arrange for a business to donate paint scrapers. It is quite another to be using the scrapers out in the blistering heat for three weekends in a row.

Because of your commitment, the Moore House is now being considered as an official state historical site. We hope you realize the enormity of what you have achieved and are as proud of your accomplishment as we are.

Sincerely,
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Example 4: Example letters for thanks community service

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Dear Mitchell:

Your expertise and personal commitment as a volunteer track coach has made this year’s Special Olympics very special indeed.

We are especially appreciative of the extra time that you spent with Troy Darlington. As this was his first time in Special Olympics, he was initially quite withdrawn. Your patience and attentiveness to his needs helped draw him out. It was marvelous to see him become a dedicated member of the team due to your influence.

Whether you realize it or not, you fulfilled the most important goal of Special Olympics—to make each child realize he is important.

We would be honored to have you work with us again.

Regards,
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Example 5: Community Service

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Dear Ms. Coyle,

Thank you for your dedication to the “Keep Our Streets Clean” campaign initiated by the city. We appreciate the efforts of all the employees who are willing to volunteer their time to make the streets and grassy areas bordering our offices look neatly groomed.

We especially appreciate the flower beds that you completed at your own expense last weekend. The flowers you planted are beautiful—the deep purple pansies and bright pink geraniums are everyone’s favorites. For you to take the time to prepare the site, select and purchase the flowers, and do all of the arranging and planting yourself was more than we ever expected when we began this campaign. We hope you are proud of the exquisite landscaping you created.

You have added some beauty to our office area—we would like the chance to reciprocate. As a small token of appreciation, please accept this gift certificate from The Arboretum Nursery.

Sincerely,
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