I am so happy and excited to finally be able to announce that I'll be going to West Africa this summer! Using my time off from med school I did a lot of research and contacted several different organizations and voluntary programs to sort out my options.  Visit site

Do you consider your volunteer hours "work"? How is value measured in your family? Recently I have had an encounter with someone who has the opinion that a military wife who is a stay at home mom and volunteer doesn't "work".  Visit site

If it can be agreed that much of U.S. government and politics has been corporatized, then recent developments point out that corporations have taken on more of the tasks that governments are failing at.  Visit site

I helped out with GVN’s booth at Suntec City for the Inaugural Corporate Social Responsibility and 2006 National Volunteerism & Philanthropy Conference. I met up with lots of people, realized that there are options in volunteering.   Visit site

When in the world are you going to find time for volunteer work? Well, you better make time. We all work and live in a great community and it is our responsibility to give back. We get so much more back in return from volunteering.  Visit site

So it now appears that if you give a volunteer expenses to cover the cost of their lunch that money will be deducted from their benefits. This is mad given that they may incur additional costs through purchasing lunch where they are volunteering rather than making themselves something at home.  Visit site

The DWP have decided in their wisdom that there is no such thing as a free lunch for volunteers on benefits. Any volunteer who gets as much as a free cup of tea for lunch will have their benefit cut.  Visit site

which is free for anyone to use and to contribute. The question is, why do these people take their (valuable) time to contribute to such a project?   Visit site

Today I attended the wrap-up session for my local Relay for Life. I'm a team captain, and tonight I turned in the last of the cash and sat down for the annual bitch session: Tell us what we can do better next year.  Visit site

I've been working on a talk about volunteerism and the Society that I'll be giving on Thursday and also next week. Instead of painting a very rah-rah picture of volunteering, I think I'm going to be very straight about it because at the end of the day, volunteerism isn't about making you feel good.   Visit site