Sentences with phrase «spent volunteering for»

Any time spent volunteering for the Consumer Advocacy Advice Project counts towards the 50 hours needed for a free CLE.

The survey asked questions about volunteer status and how much time was spent volunteering for an organization during the previous year.

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It's also a good choice for people who care about the company they support, as Tom's of Maine funnels much of its profits to charities and encourages employees to spend a percentage of their working hours doing volunteer activities.

Yet another great example is Twitter; Twitter's #FridayForGood Initiative is a chance for its employees to spend their Fridays volunteering in support of local community organizations.

She spent over two years there and volunteered her way to more experience by joining the GEO team for her «20 % project.»

And, they welcome off - the - job time spent for volunteer endeavors.

The agency's senior copywriter, Debbie Feit, spent a month volunteering for two charities, the Association for Children's Mental Health in Michigan and the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.

For those who can't afford help or are determined not to spend a dime yet still want in - person assistance from a tax pro, the AARP Foundation runs the volunteer - based Tax - Aide program.

Stress also makes it harder for people to spend time with family, spend time with friends, participate in community or volunteering activities, sleep well, and eat well — all things that can help reduce stress.

«I said, «You want to pay me for something I'm spending 30 hours a week on as a volunteer?

Chubb backs employees who want to volunteer, offering time to do everything from helping out at their child's school to spending weeks away with Habitat for Humanity.

I gathered data for both groups regarding their careers / employment, the percentage born to wealth, poverty or the middle - class, spending habits, academic performance, education, perceptions of wealth / poverty, various health data, inherited money data, gambling habits, home ownership, car ownership, reading habits, relationship management, savings habits, self - improvement habits, time management habits, beliefs, vacation habits, volunteering habits, networking habits, voting habits and work - related data.

For Rachel Huse, whose days were typically spent homeschooling her kids, sewing children's clothing for her Etsy shop and co-leading a volunteer organization that took nearly 30 hours a week of her time, the foray three years ago into direct selling centered around one goal: «I definitely saw it as an opportunity to get a house cleaner,» she saFor Rachel Huse, whose days were typically spent homeschooling her kids, sewing children's clothing for her Etsy shop and co-leading a volunteer organization that took nearly 30 hours a week of her time, the foray three years ago into direct selling centered around one goal: «I definitely saw it as an opportunity to get a house cleaner,» she safor her Etsy shop and co-leading a volunteer organization that took nearly 30 hours a week of her time, the foray three years ago into direct selling centered around one goal: «I definitely saw it as an opportunity to get a house cleaner,» she said.

«Our committee has been focused on seeing the government return to pre-2009 / 10 debt - to - GDP levels, not increasing taxes for businesses, and controlling spending,» said George Kondopulos, Tax Partner at KPMG LLP and volunteer Chair of The Vancouver Board of Trade's Government Budget and Finance Committee.

In the ensuing furor, he opened up to radio host Charles Adler about his volunteer work during college at a nun - led centre for (mostly) gay men: «If the things they say about me are true, then explain to me why a young Jason Kenney spent his time washing bloody sheets at an AIDS hospice in San Francisco in the 1980s.»

She loves writing for her own personal beauty, fashion, and fitness lifestyle blog, volunteering for a local dog rescue, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.

In the Hungary of 1947, for instance, volunteer teams of Party members spent their weekends in the countryside repairing war - damaged churches, in order to win the goodwill of the local population.

They create schools for their «intelligent» children to attend, they pay for test preparation programs and tutors, they spend countless hours volunteering in their children's schools, they raise extraordinary amounts of money for these schools, and they call on their vast network of friends and relatives to get their children into preschools and magnet schools and universities.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

For context, at the time I walked away from that church, I was spending 60 + hours per week «serving» at the church... as a volunteer... and it was never enough....

They are giving at higher rates than previous generations did at their age, and 70 percent of them spent at least an hour volunteering for a cause that was important to them.

Not being in said competition means that I'll have more time to spend / volunteer at Please Save A Cat and Friends For Life (you can read more about both of these right over here!)

If you volunteer to host dinner for such a holiday you will spend hours in the kitchen.

A Salinas local, Jill is a graduate of Leadership Salinas Valley Class 42 and has spent time volunteering for a variety of organizations including Women's Education and Leadership Hartnell College and the California Rodeo Salinas.

Leonhard retired after 2014, spent a year as basically a staff volunteer for UW in 2015, then landed his first official gig — Wisconsin DBs coach — last fall.

After volunteering for his alma mater in 1997, he spent two years as a graduate assistant for FSU's famed defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews and linebackers coach Chuck Amato.

Visit museums, go to concerts, spend time gardening, or volunteer for a local charity together.

«It's also an opportunity for high school volunteers to spend time with younger kids while they are contributing service hours.

I've spent years on the other end as a volunteer asking businesses for donations.

Kids who spend time volunteering learn empathy for others, and they also learn not to be afraid of those who are different than themselves.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

As a volunteer youth basketball coach in Plainfield, Roger Rickmon has spent nearly as much time looking for a court to use as his team has spent playing.

For instance, he discussed the fact that electoral campaigns spend a huge amount of effort building up volunteer lists, email lists and voter target lists, but that the data tend to go away as soon the election is over (particularly if the campaign loses).

Not for them, years of organising volunteers, tramping the pavements of their constituency and spending every last penny of their spare cash on petrol, refreshments for volunteers and raffle tickets at the local fete.

Running on cheese pizza, RedBull, cold Dunkin Donuts coffee, cookies and the memory of the late Ted Kennedy, I spent the last few days volunteering for Martha Coakley alongside some of the best Democratic new media operatives.

Many of our staffers work round the clock and if they choose to use the time they've earned volunteering for a campaign, spending time with family or taking a vacation that is entirely up to them.»

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon's Winter Clothing Drive was extremely successful and volunteers spent hours sorting hundreds of items and preparing for distribution.

In interviews with the FBI, both Colatarci - Reimann and Jacobs cited large amounts of campaign spending on gift baskets donated to charitable, volunteer and community organizations for fundraising raffles.

In Ramapo, volunteers spent their Saturday collecting supplies to ship to Puerto Rico for hurricane relief.

As a volunteer for the Empire State Pride Agenda, I've tried that approach, spending a sweltering day knocking on doors in Bellerose, Queens, last summer.

A group of volunteers from Plattco pose outside the North Country Veterans Association, where they spent the morning performing yard work and stocking shelves for the local organization.

A review of the Julio Pabon disclosure filing showed it spent $ 4,000 (and owes another $ 6K) on top gun election lawyer Martin Connor; $ 318 on MTA MetroCards; and $ 670 on food for his campaign staff and volunteers at local eateries (Court Deli, Giovanni's Grand Concourse, Little Caesar's Pizza, McDonald's, Mexicozina Taqueria, Parilla Latina Steakhouse, South of France, and Walton Food Service).

Legislator Bruso spent the morning with other volunteers selling the special edition of the Buffalo News for $ 1 on street corners around the city.

Mr. Dill said he has volunteered to put together school budgets for the past several years and began doing so during former superintendent Bob Feger's tenure because Mr. Feger spent winters in Arizona, which is when school spending plans are worked out.

He spent years volunteering as a coach for Little League and Babe Ruth.

On graduation she did a «gap year,» spending the first part in a «Work America» volunteer research project in Lubbock, Texas, helping to design a part of a particle detector for the Stanford Linear Collider (SLAC), and spending the rest of the year touring the U.S., hitching rides all the way from Mexico to Alaska.

Three volunteers in China have just spent three months eating beetle larvae as part of a project to test life - support systems for deep - space travel.

Packham, a British - born chemist who works for Lockheed Martin Engineering and Sciences, one of NASA's contractors, volunteered to spend two weeks in the sealed chamber, measuring 3 metres by 3 metres, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, to help prove that plants can provide enough oxygen to support astronauts on a trip to Mars.

Aamodt, for example, attends over 10 meetings per year, where she spends much of her time looking for potential reviewers and encouraging people to volunteer.

For 10 weeks, some of the volunteers used Lumosity, while others spent the same amount of time playing typical online video games, such as Love Letter and Elastico.