Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day

# Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day Source: [https://volunteeramnestyday.net/](https://volunteeramnestyday.net/) December 21, 2025 You can put down your burdens\. ## Have you taken on too much? Lots of important things depend on volunteer labor \- local civic groups, open source software projects, and more\. But maybe you are getting exhausted, burned out, from trying to volunteer too much\. > As the sunlight in your life reaches its high or low extreme, it is a good time to ask yourself if you've gone as far as you can, and need to pull back\. **Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day is about checking with yourself, and ending the commitments you need to end – maybe by taking a break, or by rotating it on to someone else, or by sunsetting a project\.** Every solstice, take inventory of your volunteer responsibilities\. The next[solstice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice)is**December 21, 2025**\. The one after that isJune 21, 2026\.  ## How? **Take inventory\.**Take twenty minutes \-\- maybe with a friend \-\- and create a responsibility inventory\. Go through your accounts and look through your calendar, emails and tabs, so you can make a list templated like: > **PROJECT NAME**- *current responsibility*\[rough summary, 1 sentence\] - *want to keep doing this?*\[yes, no, or "just this subset"\] - *next step*\[such as "delegate to PERSON", "mark as[NO MAINTENANCE INTENDED](http://unmaintained.tech/)and archive", or "keep going\!"\] Once you've decided to end a commitment,**say so publicly**\. Feel free to point to this page as a way of saying:*I need to put a few things down\. I hope other people pick them up and carry this work forward\. But even if no one does, I need to stop, or at least pause for a while\.* Ask your friend to nudge you every couple of weeks about those next steps\.