The key to volunteering is perseverance, said Bev Kline, director of Living Alternatives, a nonprofit organization in Tyler, Texas, focusing on pregnant young women. This is especially true, she said, if one is going to be a “full-time” volunteer, as she was when she started “LA” in 1982. “A lot of people volunteer a couple or four hours a week,” she said, “and that’s OK. But if you want to actually start something and sustain it, it will take lots of time and perseverance through the good and difficult moments—and there are plenty of both!” Kline has seen her effort to help a single girl in 1982 blossom into a full-time outreach to pregnant girls, serving more than 1,500 clients in 2021. The beneficial results of perseverance have been many, she said. “I started out buying home pregnancy tests for under a dollar,” she said, “and just kept going from there. …