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You’re young – in your 20s or 30s. You’ve recently started on your professional path. Maybe you’re new to Austin. And you’ve decided that you want to get involved, but seriously involved – like at the board level. What next? More than 25 people attended the Greenlights Lunch & Learn event today at...
Central Texas Red Cross just sent out an email asking for volunteer help in their shelters. This is a great opportunity to go over there and spend some helping out. We need shelter workers. Are you available????? Volunteers are needed for the 6AM – 6PM shift and for the 6PM -6AM. Volunteers are needed...
Speaking of United Way…. There are 69 United Ways in Texas, each with a different service areas, some of which overlap. It’s confusing. But it’s important to clear up because when you give to the United Way, you want that money to go to the United Way that serves the area where you live…right?...
On the I Live Here, I Give Here site this month, the highlight is education. Here’s a disturbing number: The sad truth is that a whopping 40 percent of children entering kindergarten in our community – the majority of whom live in poverty – are 12 to 18 months behind developmentally. I have a...
Those same crazy folks who brought you the Tweet-up Blood Drive are now taking aim at the Capital Area Food Bank. They’re calling it the HAM-Up Tweet-Up, which actually does mean something. Wait for it… September is Hunger Action Month… HAM… Tweet-up is a meeting of Twitter followers and followees… so HAM-Up Tweet-Up. Okay,...
Give $20 to Shoes for Austin and a disadvantaged child gets a brand new pair of sneakers? How cool is that? When I was little, the first thing I wanted to do when I got new sneakers was run, run, run. Remember that feeling? I knew they were dorky and super-white, but they felt great. That’s...
Theatre Action Project is looking for volunteers! The nonprofit runs an after-school program, a dynamic program which explores social themes through theatre, art, music, movement and more. I’ve seen this group in action - getting more than 100 strangers to make little teepees and walk in circles - so think what they can do with a classroom...
I’m okay with used clothes. I had to share a wardrobe my whole life with two sisters, the three of us one year apart, so I’ve actually taken a shirt off someone else’s back and put it on mine. Did we ever fight about who was going to wear what? You’d be surprised… by...
I love when local businesses find a cool way to help local nonprofits. I don’t know why it’s different from what Macy’s does… wait! Yes, I do! It’s different because it’s local and because, again, Macy’s “Shop for a Cause” event is yucky. Macy’s asks nonprofits to sell $5 shopping passes to customers that would...
I just find this data on national volunteering rates so interesting. From the Corporation for National & Community Service report, Volunteering in America 2007: About 29% of women volunteered last year, compared with about 23% of men. Women with children have a higher rate of volunteering than those without. Women who work have the...
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