Some workers at a Michigan pancake restaurant found a sweet way to help out their boss and the workplace they love.
An attorney who volunteered to help Barack Obama improve his relationship with Muslim and Arab-Americans has resigned from the campaign amid questions about his connection to a fundamentalist imam.
Simple numbers were working against the fire and rescue department in this town of 400 along Interstate 80. Unbeknownst to six people in a Suburban that had just wrecked on the busy interstate, the math didn't favor them either.
Karinda Washington, managing partner of BOTS Entertainment in Detroit, caught the voluntourism bug just over a year ago. She was working as a chaperone on a bus tour put together by Students Today Leaders Forever, a Minneapolis-based non-profit group that encourages students to “pay it forward” by combining travel, volunteer work and education.
Volunteer tourism, aka voluntourism, is alive and well and growing in popularity. In fact, according to a new survey sponsored by msnbc.com and Condé Nast Traveler, more than half (55 percent) of the respondents expressed an interest in taking a volunteer vacation.
As 2008 gets into gear, if you’re an animal lover and still stuck for a terrific new year’s resolution, here’s a great idea: resolve to book a vacation. However, not the usual two weeks in Mexico or Hawaii, but an itinerary that will benefit your furry, feathered or finned friends — and is guaranteed to be good for your soul. That’s what the latest travel trend, volunteer vacations, is all about.
The American military discovered there are fewer Iraqi civilians serving as volunteer guards in their home areas than it had thought, saying accounting mistakes had inflated the number by thousands.
Daniel Kerner's parents knew the experimental brain surgery was risky, but without it the 6-year-old surely would die. Last month in Portland, Ore., doctors for the first time transplanted stem cells from aborted fetuses into his head in a desperate bid to reverse, or at least slow, a rare genetic disorder called Batten disease. The so-far incurable condition normally results in blindness and paralysis before death.
Sen. George Allen apologized Tuesday for remarks that offended a man of Indian descent who was tracking the Republican's re-election campaign for Democratic challenger Jim Webb.
Much of the investigation, first reported by The New York Times, is centered on the use of recruiting "hostesses" who have helped the program convince prep prospects to choose Tennessee by befriending prep prospects and attending their high school games.
Generation Y's passion to volunteer is shown in the most trying of times during ongoing war. Many volunteer in the US armed forces. Amazing during our current global disapproval of the Middle Eastern conflicts, many still continue to choose this form of giving.
Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia "lost" 49,000 of its volunteer editors in the first three months of 2009, University research suggests.
My life is forfeit, With signing this letter. Me, becomes insignificant considered against soceity. My orders are here, report for duty. Happiness garnered will have to do until, My job is complete. Heat, cold, comfort inconsequential, The mission takes precedent to all th …
Increasingly, soldiers deployed in remote areas are using blogs/email to stay connected with family and friends - and to manage the stress of life in a desolate war zone.
I had an appointment at the local DPSS office, I needed some help. Do they even realize what it takes for someone like me to swallow his pride and for ask for help. I ask but I will not beg, I rather sale my ass at the corner then do that.
The latest national statistics from the Citizenship Survey produced by Communities and Local Government were released on Thursday 29 October. Statistics from the Citizenship Survey for England and Wales include data covering a range of issues including community cohesion, empowe …
Volunteering provides many benefits, including potentially helping one's job search.
Efren Peñaflorida gives Filipino youth an alternative to gang membership through education. His Dynamic Teen Company's 10,000 members have taught basic reading and writing to 1,500 kids living in the slums His complete story here Pushcart classes help break gang chain
Could your yarn stash qualify you as a hoarder? Are you tired of laboring over fiber projects for folks who don't appreciate your talents? Are you hungry for new expressions for your creativity? This article contains some fantastic suggestions.
On October 15th, beginning at noon, 15 members of the Oregon National Guard will assist with the project by taking the books from the basement of the State Library and loading them into a 40 foot ocean-going container that will be shipped to Xiamen in Fujian province in the next …
A few accomplishments from just bunches of kids. Every once in a while I like to try to find stories like these, they kind of reaffirm for me a little bit of hope that not all kids are slaves to their play stations!
Loggerhead turtles hatch last night with the help of volunteers leading them to the ocean in Big Pine Key, Florida. Some nests were late in hatching, raising concerns among some folks. But the turtles came thru!
Now, the volunteer FF will be able to get some of what they spend on PPE (Personal Protective Ensemble) which cost me roughly $1500 for just the turnouts and then add the SCBA, forcible entry tools, etc. It adds up very quickly.
Veteran reporter, author and commentator Bernard Goldberg reports that when CBS News did its fake National Guard story on George W. Bush avoiding service in Vietnam, it knew it was a lie.
HOUSTON — A soldier at Fort Hood who fought his deployment to Afghanistan and stopped obeying orders was sentenced to a month in jail and demoted to private in a military court on Wednesday morning.
Although the country's volunteer rate held steady overall from 2007 to 2008, a million more Americans volunteered last year than in 2007.
I subscribe to a newsletter from Tasting Table (http://www.tastingtable.com) and I want to share something that I received last week regarding Hillside Produce Cooperative (http://hillsideproducecooperative.org/).
So long as our nation produces families like the Krissoffs, America will remain not only the greatest nation on earth, but also the most noble in history.
An apologetic volunteer, not a thief, was to blame for the disappearance of the $400 crown, which turned up late Friday afternoon at a Reno alteration shop.
There can be few more potent symbols of the new caring age in which we are supposed to be living, post-credit crunch, than that of the man who voluntarily gave up one of his organs so that a perfect stranger might live.
Get a load of this.... Michelle Obama makes a speech about community service that all Americans should get involved in. Today marks "United We Serve" the administrations nationwide summer of service intuitive. You can go to www.serve.gov to get started she said and share ideas.
is in alliance with President Obama's Call to Action on June 22. 2009 - please go see.
The Imagine LA program founded by a minister seeks to deal with homelessness in Los Angeles.