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• Doing the right thing for others is also doing the right thing for ourselves.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  As we enter the holiday season this week there are often many opportunities to volunteer our time, talents, and money to worthy causes directed to those who may be less fortunate than ourselves. Collecting food for the hungry, toys for children without many resources, or working at a local soup kitchen all help others ...
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• When Big Labor Bullies And Volunteers Collide

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 550
  By Michelle Malkin The Boy Scouts’ motto is: Be prepared. Who knew it meant preparing to defend themselves against purple-shirted union thuggery over community service? Kids, pay attention. This is a teachable moment for all of you on power, politics and Big Labor’s culture of corruption. Last week at a city ...
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• Help Improve Water Access In Nicaragua

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  laszlo-photos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Access to safe and clean water is a right that should be afforded to everyone, but unfortunately pollution, climate change and privatization, among other obstacles prevent one billion people obtaining this vital necessity. This upcoming Thanksgiving week, SYRV , a ...
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• Volunteer Spotlight: Susie Marshall

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 515
  I often get random requests from people wanting to volunteer with our education programs. Usually the requests are very specific. They want to come on a certain day (usually a weekend or an evening after were closed) and during a certain time frame. Oftentimes, they want to bring a large group of people. I truly ...
  3 days ago

• TEDx - Not Playing Fair?

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  TED - the group behind the Technology, Entertainment, Design events, is massive in scope, and contribution to the collective genius and information sharing in a way that is here-to-fore unheard of. read more
  3 days ago

• Public Service Enterprise Group Celebrates the Power of Volunteerism

  
  National Business Community Blog — Authority: 120
  NEWARK, N.J. — Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is celebrating the power of volunteerism by recognizing exemplary employee volunteers and rewarding the nonprofit organizations they support. The energy company will award 17 New Jersey nonprofits a total of $34,000 in recognition of the work of employees who ...
  4 days ago

• The News (& Maps!) Revolution

  
  Decatur Metro — Authority: 483
  That’s right folks.  The very same revolution that is reported ad nauseum by the press, about the press, is also taking place in an equally ancient medium: maps.Tell me this blurb from the New York Times story about “geo-volunteerism” doesn’t sound like it fell right off the back of the paper wagon…But Tele ...
  4 days ago

• For the love of trees

  
  Mama's Musings — Authority: 126
  Little known fact about me? Im a hobby arborist. Well, okay, I really like trees and all that they do for the environment in the way of putting out good CO2 offsets. Besides, theres a spirit about trees that humbles me immeasurably. Im also an advocate for volunteers (once upon a time I almost got to be a volunteer ...
  5 days ago

• Dec. 20: Sacred Heart Community Service Toy Sorting

  
  Tech CU Money Savvy — Authority: 113
  Now that we’ve donated all the toys, now it’s time to sort them and help the Sarced Heart Community Service in San Jose get toys to children throughout the Bay Area! Ages 5 and up welcome. Please dress warm and comfortably! The North Pole is a chilly place! Date: Sunday, December 20th Time: 8:30 a.m. to ...
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• Peace Corps Director Comments on Expansion

  
  Peace Corps Polyglot — Authority: 121
  Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams, in a November 15 interview published in Parade magazine, says the agency plans to add a couple of thousand volunteers over the next two years. You can read the interview by following this link.
  6 days ago

• If youre thinking about doing service...

  
  Googling God... — Authority: 428
  then Id like to introduce you to the Catholic Network of Volunteer Service . They are fantabulous (thats a combo of fantastic and fabulous)! I go to a lot of conferences and Im pretty hard to impress, but from the quality of the speakers, to the dedication that they all collectively have in working for the needs of ...
  6 days ago

• Its a Matter of Character

  
  The Nexus of Assholery — Authority: 430
  When one spends any serious amount of time in the blogosphere, its inevitable that one will encounter people who allow the anonymity supplied by the internet as an excuse to display elements of their personality that are fundamentally vicious and small. An interesting case in point is the dedicated miscreant Ti-Guy. ...
  1 week ago

• Volunteers sought for Thanksgiving meal delivery program

  
  Signal Tribune Newspaper — Authority: 135
  The nonprofit group Faith in Action/Volunteer Action for Aging is seeking volunteers for this year’s Thanksgiving meal delivery program for older and disabled adults who have minimal resources and opportunities for holiday celebrations with family and friends. The undertaking has been a local tradition for more than ...
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• Six Flags Mobilizes Universal Workforce to Lend a Helping Hand

  
  National Business Community Blog — Authority: 120
  NEW YORK — Today Six Flags will close its gates to launch Project 6, the companys first annual Day of Service. The entire Six Flags workforce will collectively press pause on all day-to-day duties to spearhead and participate in volunteer projects within their local neighborhoods aimed at improving overall quality ...
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• Phoenix Greenbuild Events Calendar

  
  Downtown Voices Coalition — Authority: 433
  The city of Phoenix, local businesses, and nonprofit organizations are planning a variety of events in conjunction with the 2009 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, Nov. 11 – 13 at the Phoenix Convention Center.  The events include the city’s “Gateway to Green” Neighborhood Celebration, from 4 to 6 ...
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• Andre Agassi On 60 Minutes

  
  TennisGrandstand — Authority: 424
  Andre Agassi’s Sunday interview on the famed U.S. television show “60 Minutes” was quite revealing about his life, drug use, volunteerism and his book OPEN that is in book stores as of today. Click the links below to watch Katie Couric’s interview from Sunday, November 8. To order the book right now, click ...
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• Working for A City of Justice and Mercy

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 515
  According to Metro Dallas Alliances Point in Time census, there are about 6000 homeless people on the streets in Dallas on any given night. That is most likely a low estimate. Some of us place that figure considerably higher. While Dallas effort to deal with the issue of citizens living on its streets and beneath ...
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• Dallas Justice Revival: Worship AND Work

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 515
  Education is the great equalizer in our country. Yet it is becoming increasingly clear that more and more of our children are less equal than others. Its easy to see this problem as insurmountable, target poor students and their families for the personal responsibility sermon of the week and tend to our own. But at ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Galavanting Girls help the children of Roatan

  
  Gadling — Authority: 693
  Filed under: Honduras , Central America , Caribbean Travel writer, founder of The Galavanting Girls , and creator of the Travel Blog Exchange conference, Kim Mance will soon be setting off on a cruise to visit, among other places, the island of Roatan in Honduras . Rather than spend her time in port ...
  2 weeks ago

• On the Brink of Service

  
  Daily Casserole — Authority: 128
  I’m feeling unexpectedly patriotic. While in New York for a conference, I stayed at the newly opened Kimpton Hotel, Ink48 in Hell’s Kitchen on 11th Avenue and 48th Street.  It’s designed to be a hip, happening hot spot with a sleek lobby and lounge space, including velvety banquettes in private niches that ...
  2 weeks ago

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