Volunteering

Charity on the mend at work

Corporate giving campaigns adjust to economy, but show signs of recovery Firms emphasize volunteerism, expand definitions, options for charitable donations By Wailin Wong Tribune reporter As 2008 drew to a close, Family Rescue...

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Volunteer groups help the community

Greetings, armchair CSIs. This week, I want to speak about Homeland Security and Civil Defense, our collective responsibility to protect our people, and about volunteerism. We often expect government to provide us with all of...

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Morocco: Peace Corps Community Honors So Youn Kim

The Peace Corps bloggers are mourning the loss of a fellow volunteer, 23-year-old So Youn Kim, who had worked at a youth center in the southern Moroccan village of Tamegrout. Bloggers who knew her and those who didn't have...

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Modesto-area organizations need more helpers: Holidays bring big demand on their efforts to...

Nov 22, 2009 (The Modesto Bee - As a Red Cross volunteer, she gets called out when people have lost their home to a fire. "It's very, very overwhelming for the family," said Calcote, who has responded to about 150 house fires...

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Charity links furniture to newly housed homeless

By ZOE FRALEY; The Bellingham Herald BELLINGHAM, Wash. – After Shannon Taggart spent more than a year living in her van, moving into a Bellingham apartment was a big step. But like many homeless people placed in housing,...

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They're tracking Pepperell's trails, globally [The Sun, Lowell, Mass.]

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 22--PEPPERELL -- If you're an aspiring bird watcher trying to get a glimpse of warblers, John Ganem suggests you hit a hiking trail in an orchard. The president of Nashoba Conservation Trust, a...

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Volunteer day brings families together

Theresa and Bob Kerry searched a long time for an opportunity to expose their two children to volunteerism. The Interlochen couple joined about 60 other parents and children for a Family Volunteering Day event organized by...

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Empowerment through arts in Egypt

During eight years as a volunteer working with displaced families in Egypt, Azza Kamel realised that many of the children she interacted with had simple aspirations beyond the basic necessities of life.

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Bike giveaway seeking donations

To view our videos, you need to enable JavaScript. Learn how. install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Central New York's Bike Giveaway is back again this season....

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Winter receives national recognition for international relief work

NORWALK Stephen M. Winter, MD, FCCP, of Ridgefield, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Norwalk Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, recently received the Humanitarian...

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