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Blog /// My Goodness: No Pets Allowed
August 19, 2010 by Constance Casey for Slate.com
Dear My Goodness, My 12-year-old son really loves animals, but we can't adopt one because of apartment rules and family allergies. Where can I take him to foster his interest and also help the local stray animal population?Tags: volunteering, summer camp, conservation, dogs, cats, horses, elephants, slate.com
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Blog /// My Goodness: Volunteer Spice
August 9, 2010 by Constance Casey for Slate.com
Dear My Goodness, I've always tried to find fun ways to volunteer in my community. I've served food in soup kitchens during the holidays and tutored kids after school for a while. But I always end up bored with the same repetitive charity work. I'd like to do something off the beaten path that serves those around me but is different and might teach me new skills—maybe something in the arts. What are some innovative ideas for getting out of this volunteer rut?Tags: volunteering, charity, arts, cancer, gardening, farming, slate.com
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Blog /// Crowdsource Your Cause
July 27, 2010 by Andrea Bennett
Remember the old method of passing a sign-up sheet around the office cubicles and asking your colleagues to pledge a few dollars to your Walk for [insert cause here]? Now there’s a way to turbo-charge that. It’s called Crowdrise, a new online platform that allows volunteers to seek sponsorships for their volunteering by leveraging the power of the Web. Crowdrise’s founder, actor Ed Norton, should know: he helped the Maasai Conservation Wilderness Trust raise more than $1 million in two months by running the New York City Marathon and crowdsourcing donations. He based the model on his success.Tags: charity, internet, volunteering
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Blog /// My Goodness | Trying to Volunteer
July 15, 2010 by Constance Casey for Slate.com
Dear My Goodness, I'm a twentysomething legal assistant who was very involved in charity organizations in college. I'd like to volunteer one evening a week, but I'm getting discouraged because some version of the following keeps happening. The organization gets back to me and asks whether I'll send my available dates and times to set up an interview. I do so immediately but don't hear back from them for weeks. Then someone from the charity e-mails with "thanks for your patience." We set up a time for a phone interview, and they don't call.Tags: slate.com, volunteering, charity, goodwill
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Q and A /// Questions for: Patrick Corvington
June 25, 2010 by Laura van Straaten
Shortly after his inauguration, President Obama issued a call to service urging Americans to serve their communities and country in whatever way possible. Charged with helping citizens answer that call is Patrick Corvington, the newly appointed head of the federal agency known as the Corporation for National and Community Service. The agency oversees all of the volunteering programs in the nation, including AmeriCorps and Senior Corps, and helps nonprofits recruit, train, and manage volunteers. Corvington has devoted his life to serving and empowering communities.Tags: president obama, goodwill, volunteering, haiti, community
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Resources /// Best Family Movies
May 20, 2010 by Nell Minow for Beliefnet's Movie Mom blog
Movies are our sagas, our myths, our touchstones, and our collective cultural heritage. They are also one way that we teach ourselves and our children about values. Of course, kids get their most important lessons from the behavior of their parents. But movies give us a chance to explain and expand on those lessons through a modern form of parables or Aesop's Fables. And like parables, stories in movies have the advantage of distance--it can be easier for kids to talk to parents about what's happening on screen than to talk about what's going on inside them. Those discussions are a powerful way for families to connect and communicate. I've selected 10 terrific movies in which characters show qualities like responsibility, integrity, compassion, and courage.Tags: beliefnet, movie mom, films, parenting, communication, trust, history, etiquette, tolerance, football, community, loyalty, learning, violence, peace, volunteering, charity, poverty, law, justice, values
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Resources /// Tips for Positive Parenting
May 20, 2010 by Leslie Leyland Fields for Beliefnet
Many parents today feel overwhelmed with feelings of inadequacy and guilt. I am convinced that many of our struggles come from believing that it is our job to be perfect parents. But we don't need to get caught up in false beliefs that cause stress and worry. Read the eight truths about parenting that will free you to be a more positive parent.Tags: beliefnet, parenting, tips, success, training, discipline, happiness, character, volunteering, community, safety, values
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Report /// People Making a Difference | Leslie Clark
May 14, 2010 by Hannah Armstrong for The Christian Science Monitor
At the Doli school for nomads, the teacher pounds on a hubcap each morning to summon children. Many don't hear it because they are too far out in the bush, scouring the scorched land for pastures to nourish their herds. Supplying education and health care to nomads in northern Niger is no easy task. But it is essential to a strategy hatched by Leslie Clark, a California artist and founder of the Nomad Foundation, which helps nomads hang onto their lifestyle in the world's poorest country.Tags: the christian science monitor, goodwill, california, nomads, desert, volunteering, niger, poverty, healthcare, culture
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