Archive for the ‘ Volunteer ’ Category
At its worst, the Internet can leave me feeling depressed and overwhelmed, especially with the natural disasters and Charlie Sheen overload. But at its best, I come away from my computer inspired, uplifted and connected. Sparked.com gives me that second kind of feeling. Described as “the microvolunteering network,” Sparked is an online volunteering site that [ READ MORE ]
A few months ago I started hearing buzz about another new social media site, the new big thing: The appeal was clear to me once I actually got on Quora and started looking around, not at the questions being asked but at the people who were answering the questions. This wasn’t just your average social [ READ MORE ]
Today as I was volunteering in Cambridge for BU’s Global Day of Service, I tweeted from my site what I was doing. It was then that I had a stroke of genius (or so I thought): what if, as a volunteer, I could check in to the service project on Foursquare? What would it mean [ READ MORE ]
Today on Mashable, I stumbled upon the news of Jumo: Facebook co-founder and My.BarackObama.com alum Chris Hughes announced the soft launch of Jumo, his new philanthropic start-up that works to match do-gooders with appropriate causes. Currently, the Jumo site is merely an elegantly designed homepage that announces Hughes’s mission to “bring together everyday individuals and organizations [ READ MORE ]
An article in the NonProfit Times brought up a campaign that’s been on my mind for months: Disney’s “Give a Day, Get a Day” program (volunteer for one day, receive a day at a Disney theme park). Apparently, I can stop thinking about it because the campaign already has reached its goal of 1 million [ READ MORE ]
On my recent Alternative Spring Breaks trip to West Virginia, we went into a house that was in bad shape from previous owners, cleaned it up both inside and out, and then went home. Prior to this trip, I couldn’t see anything wrong with what we were doing – giving our spring breaks to help [ READ MORE ]
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