Corporate Social Responsibility program will help businesses and nonprofits make even larger impacts in their local communities. Written by: Brent Lager It’s no secret that to be successful, businesses need to build relationships with the people they serve, employ and represent. Thus, one of the foremost goals for any type of organization is to find […]
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“I’m so disappointed with the way the world has become,” my grandfather told me. “I don’t know what happened to the values of my generation.” Do people even care or help anymore? I’ve asked myself this several times since that talk and a more jaded part of me agrees with him. Nowadays, I think a […]
Exit Student Ministries at Hillcrest Platte Our friends over at The Call Kansas City had a great group of volunteers recently that we thought deserved a little more recognition. For a full rundown, check out the original blog post.Written by: Brent Lager The first thing I saw was a small, uncovered trailer jammed with lawn […]
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Give what you can with joy. When you get bitter, it’s time to stop. Written by: Anna Spady She was telling me how much she loved her cause, how needed it was, how much she believed in it and above all, how utterly and totally exhausted she was. As she admitted her exhaustion, her eyes […]
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“Spider!” screamed Ryan. A man terrified of spiders is entertaining enough, but the fact that said man was a 6-foot-5-inch blonde giant only amplified the hilarity. Ryan Childress and I were 15 at the time, had known each other for years and were practically family, which became official two years later when his sister married […]
Whiteboarding brainstormvsession with @showmalley #csr #whiteboard #brainstorm (at VolunteerMark Office)
To those in the VolunteerMark network, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Sean O’Malley and though I am new at VolunteerMark, I am not new to the world of volunteering. I grew up in North Platte, a small railroad town in western Nebraska. The eldest of three kids, I was taught to […]