Encouraging Social Change

What Will You Bring to the Table?

BY CHELSEA MURPHY, APRIL 10, 2013

Today’s guest post comes from Sally Hallingstad and is republished from the Points of Light blog. Sally is Director of Events & Marketing at Metro Volunteers, a HandsOn Volunteer Action Center in Denver. Through generationOn’s What Will You Bring to the Table? initiative, Sally and her team are engaging youth in taking action against child [...]

3 Lessons from the HandsOn Regional Affiliate Meeting

BY HANDSON NETWORK, MARCH 20, 2013

Today’s post comes from Chelsea Martin at Volunteer Centers of Michigan. It was going to be a regional meeting in Atlanta during the month of October… but hurricane Sandy hand other plans. So come February, I headed to Los Angeles for the regional affiliate meeting. I’d spent the previous few months on calls with other network [...]

What does the future hold for volunteering?

BY HANDSON NETWORK, MARCH 04, 2013

What does the future hold for volunteering? Longer working lives, economic uncertainty, combined with an easier way to find out about volunteering opportunities means that the face of volunteering could change in the future. Since the economic downturn hit both the US and the UK economies in 2007/8, the rate of volunteering has declined on [...]

The Story of Curaçao Cares

BY HANDSON NETWORK, MARCH 01, 2013

Today’s post comes from Deva-Dee Siliee, Co-founder Curaçao Cares Curaçao Cares is the first of its kind volunteer and project management organization in Curaçao, a Dutch-Caribbean island. Curaçao is well known for its beautiful capital Willemstad that is on the UNESCO Heritage List, for its beaches, and of course for its blue liqueur. The island [...]

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What Will You Bring to the Table?

3 Lessons from the HandsOn Regional Affiliate Meeting

What does the future hold for volunteering?

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