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Culture
Who Is the Peace Corps For: American Volunteers or Communities Abroad?
Losing and then having to find your culture again is a circuitous route to becoming a better citizen.
Lifestyle
In London, Joggers Run Errands for the Isolated and Immobile
The Good Gym matches people who jog for exercise with elderly and isolated people who could really use a visit. It's a brilliant idea.
Business
Pando Projects: An (Aspiring) Support Network for Community Projects
Pando Project wants to help you improve your neighborhood-with a mentor, money, training. But right now, Pando needs help to start.
Business
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Pando Projects is Proving Millennials Will Volunteer If You Give Them Tech Tools To Do It
These charming local activists have 15 new plans to fix a neighborhood problem they know a lot about, and they're getting help to do it.
Business
A New Way to Match Nonprofits With Skilled Volunteers
Professional volunteering is not new. In fact, it fits a fairly classic strategy for people looking for meaning in their life: Go to work, go...
News
Next Stop, Volunteering! The Do Good Bus Makes Community Service Easy (and Fun)
Part mobile volunteer unit, part feel-good party, The Do Good Bus travels around Los Angeles, delivering eager do-gooders to causes that need them.
News
Would You Volunteer More If You Could Do So in Your Pajamas?
Have a skill to share but can't find the time? A new website lets you do good for others from the comfort of your own home.
News
Interactive Transparency: The Power of Volunteering
We're visualizing the number of hours people work and the causes they work for so that we can see the collective power of participatory philanthropy.
News
The GOOD Guide to Volunteering: Intro
There are limitless ways to match up your passions with your desire to do some good in the world. Here are just a few ideas based on your interests.
Education
When Is the Last Time You Voluntereed, and What Did You Do?
News
Join the Do Good Bus and The Hub LA on a Surprise Service Adventure
The next outing of the Do Good Bus departs this weekend, for a special adventure co-sponsored by the new co-working community The Hub LA.
Education
Project Goodness Wins $2,500 from GOOD's First Ever LA Fund
GOOD Maker will award a $2,500 grant to an education nonprofit that's teaching Los Angeles fifth-graders about the importance of volunteering.
Education
Teach For America Focuses on Closing the Hispanic Achievement Gap
Hispanic children are three times as likely to live in a low-income community, and thus attend a lower-performing school. Find out how you can help.
Education
Four Tips for Volunteering at Your Local School
One thing almost every school has in common these days is figuring out how to provide a quality education despite budget cuts. The days of...
News
Barack Obama Launches 2012 Presidential Campaign on YouTube
President Obama kicked off his 2012 presidential campaign this morning. In a sign of the times, he did it with a YouTube video recruiting volunteers.
The Community Board
architectural volunteering opportunities
Does anybody know of any volunteering opportunities where you can help build public works projects, for example, low income housing, parks, etc?.
The Community Board
4,000 10th Graders
Volunteering with local non-profits is something I would encourage just about everyone to do. I say "just about everyone," because I know there...
The Community Board
Building a Future Not Our Own
Sometimes I feel my constant mantra is about how every small action counts. I say it often and I believe it. The world is so huge, effects and...
