Sentences with phrase «volunteer organizations around»

Way back before I began my world travels in 1998, I researched dozens of volunteer organizations around the world.

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This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.

With around 1,000 volunteers at any given time, this organization helps Jewish children reach their potential.

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 said.

Through direct contributions and the efforts of our dedicated employee volunteers, we support hundreds of nonprofit organizations and schools around the world every year.

Being around like - minded individuals who are willing to volunteer their time for an organization that, year after year, achieves incredible results is not only fun, but also a great opportunity to learn and grow!

There are so few volunteers from other age groups that I've seen men and women around the age of 30 leading their organizations.

One organization that has helped network area churches to prepare for and respond to disasters is the Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN), which trains volunteers from member churches in and around Austin, Texas.

«The Idaho Potato Commission is extremely proud to support this volunteer - driven, humanitarian organization that provides meals to millions of hungry and malnourished people around the world,» said Frank Muir, President & CEO, Idaho Potato Commission.

I believe that if an organization has volunteer training, program policies and a comprehensive screening process with disqualifiers in place and someone is still discouraged from volunteering — then good because that raises a big red flag that this individual might just have something more that they are worried about and probably shouldn't be around children!

And it seems as we travel around to state and national conferences to talk to our many friends in the recreation field, more and more we hear about budgets being cut, staff let go and recreation programs being forced to turn their programs over to volunteer based organizations simply because they have no other choice.

As a member of Postpartum Support, International, a non-profit organization with volunteer coordinators in each state in the U.S. and 26 countries around the world, Karen and her associates at The Postpartum Stress Center are continuously in touch with the needs of the postpartum community as well as with current research and state - of - the - art interventions.

The organization offers support, reliable information, best practice training, and volunteer coordinators in all 50 U.S. states and more than 30 other countries around the world.

First, we're partnering with Sister District, a national organization whose goal is to direct volunteer energy from deep blue districts like ours toward competitive races around the country.

As a grassroots organization we have dozens of contributors and volunteers all around the country.

The Kidlink Project (a global, teacher - volunteer organization that enables students from around the world to collaborate with each other) lists outlines, discussion questions, and activities for different Who Am I?

The Earthwatch Institute, an international nonprofit organization founded in 1971, which recruits volunteers from many fields every year to join research teams around the globe.

Omprakash connects volunteers with grassroots organizations around the world and also offers grants to volunteers who propose special projects.

In The 2014 Allstate - National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll, 83 percent of millennials said that if Americans volunteered more time and money to community groups and charitable organizations, it would make life better around them.

There are dozens of great volunteer - led rescue organizations in and around our area.

«RAPS is a no - kill animal organization and the grief experienced by our staff and volunteers around this issue remains deeply painful,» says Julie Desgroseillers, manager of the RAPS City of Richmond Animal Shelter and RAPS Cat Sanctuary.

Keeps abreast of latest thinking around volunteerism and volunteer issues in order to offer training / presentations to organizations.

While here at our national headquarters in Richmond, California, we handle the overall needs of the organization - producing the J o u r n a l, keeping national statistics, maintaining the website, taking care of fi - nances, and keeping in touch with our members from around the world - as well as run our local shelter, most of the fostering and educational work of House Rabbit Society is handled «on the ground,» through our volunteer educators, fosterers and chapter managers around the world.

As some formerly all - volunteer organizations have discovered, a paid staffer can be an investment that pays off in a more effective, higher impact organization that will be around for the long haul.

These included high - level volunteer teams solely devoted to marketing and fundraising, community support around changing shelter practices (the organization was prohibited from sharing information about city shelter practices), grassroots fundraising (SAPA!

About the organization: Plenty of Pit Bulls (POPB) is a group of volunteers working to help pit bull type dogs in and around Alachua County, Florida through rescue, adoption, and education.

Many service dog organizations use volunteers called «Puppy Raisers» in which a puppy is sent to the volunteer family at a young age (6 - 7 weeks) to live until he is an adult (around a year old) before entering an intensive training program.

In 2013 Wayne became a volunteer puppy raiser for Guide Dogs for the Blind, a non-profit organization that provides service dogs for the visually impaired where he focuses on building a healthy bond between dog and handler, animal socialization techniques and the establishment of all around good manners for a canine companion in and outside of the home.

If you are a non-profit organization, the Neighborhood of Good has teamed up with All for Good to help you connect and coordinate with volunteers around your cause.

Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet is a military and veteran support organization made up of volunteers from around the nation.

Tanya Glanville - Wallis, Director of PR & Communications at All Hands Volunteers, speaks about how she went from corporate lawyer to full time volunteer, the many places the organization assists, as well as how 100 percent of the donations made online go to the organization's projects around the world.

Luke and I recount our recent travels together throughout the country, including trips to Antigua, Lake Atitlan, Tikal and Semuc Champey, and discuss Luke's future plans for a new charitable organization centered around empowering local volunteers with strong oversight to maximize results.

Many other «volunteer» organizations are operating around the world, however most that I've checked out actually require «volunteers» to pay quite a lot of money for room, board, and other expenses.

The animal advocate volunteers with The Cleveland APL, Friends of The Cleveland Kennel, Muttley Crue Animal Rescue, and a number of other rescue organizations around Cleveland.

In the early days, thousands of volunteers from official and unofficial organizations around the globe helped with food rationing, identifying and properly burying victims and providing some semblance of care and disease control.

While EcoChallenge provides organizations with a short - term employee volunteer program, many companies also want to cultivate a structured, year - round conversation around community involvement.

Gordon enjoys backcountry skiing, rock climbing, gardening, and volunteering with a variety of environmental organizations around Oregon.

Makoma Lekalakala, 53, was raised in Soweto and is the director for Earthlife Africa, a largely volunteer - driven organization that mobilizes South Africans around environmental issues.

Northwest Earth Institute is a grassroots organization of volunteers and community organizers around the country who have brought together more than 115,000 people to dialogue and take action on behalf of the Earth.

The City of Seattle manages the network of P - Patch community gardens — there are 50 + around town — and so with their help, the help of volunteer organizations like Seattle Works, and tireless work by those who wanted the garden to succeed (you'll meet them in a sec), the plot went from trash - ridden vacant lot to vibrant community garden.

Many volunteer - lawyering organizations work around this by incorporating mentoring into their client - service model.

Plan your volunteering activity around the needs of the organization.

Volunteering at different types of organizations, with different missions, can help you identify where you thrive so you can ultimately gain clarity around the type of company to target in future moves.

We have been in contact with them extensively and are offering to help however we can, but, really, they're the ones who are helping and volunteering around the community, which can only be attributed to who they are, not the organization.»

Cheryl is a 20 - year volunteer of the House of Hope, the very organization that she credits with turning her own life around.

Toomer's For Tuscaloosa has organized an all - volunteer, state - wide effort to provide food, shelter, and clothing to thousands of people around Alabama affected by the April 27th tornadoes The organization says, «We will not rest until every person affected by this tornado has access to the assistance they need.»