It’s not just a cliché that this is a special time of year. The harvest is in. November sees Thanksgiving, a national holiday of which we can justly be proud. December follows with Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanzaa. And once the winter solstice is past, the world literally becomes a little brighter each day. In this [...]
Mark your calendars for December 6, 2012. That’s Georgia Gives Day – an initiative of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits in collaboration with participating corporations, associations, foundations, public relations and advertising firms, and nonprofits across the state. The website, gagivesday.org, describes the event as “an effort to empower nonprofits to deliver greater impact and enhanced [...]
When technology consultants Melissa Reynolds, Diana Bui, and John Jarvis wanted to make a difference by volunteering, they chose a year with Americorps VISTA, the national service program designed to fight poverty. They landed with the HandsOn Tech program, hosted locally at HandsOn Atlanta, and now they’re working pro bono with non-profits in the Southern [...]
By Danny McCranie I’m writing this on behalf of my son Will, who’s busy right now hiking the full length of the Appalachian Trail. It’s been a dream of his since he was a seven-year-old Cub Scout. But there’s more to it than that. He says, “I’ve made a promise to serve other people at [...]
As the school year winds down, we say thank you and good-bye to our intern Lacy Matusek. For the past two years she has been a wonderful addition to our Volunteer Publishing family, and we’re grateful for all her hard work. She’ll be starting her senior year at Counterpane Montessori in the fall which will [...]
In January, once again a host of Georgia Power employees honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday not by taking a day off, but by lending a hand at various non-profits. In our area on the Day of Service, these civic-minded staffers demonstrated the power (pun intended) of volunteering in a variety of ways: At [...]
Serving Saturday is open to those who’d like to include a few hours of varied local volunteering in their weekends, either on a regular, occasional, or even last minute basis. The idea for the informal, independent group is simple. “I was eager to serve others, and the biggest resource I had to give was time,” [...]
Christmas tree farmers in Fayette County are helping spread holiday cheer to service men and women through the 2011 Trees for Troops program. The Christmas SPIRIT Foundation, a non-profit branch of the National Christmas Tree Association, has been hosting the event since 2005 and this year the goal is to reach the 100,000 mark in [...]
This holiday season, many food drives, toy drives, and other programs will take place during November and December. Because these programs sometimes last for several weeks, they are not always included on event calendars. So here are just a few of the ongoing programs happening this holiday season: FAYETTE HOLIDAY HELPERS This program supports [...]
A package from home. You probably remember what a lift it gave you when you were away at camp or college. Now take a few moments to really magnify that feeling, and you can begin to imagine what it means to get such a package when you’re in the military and serving overseas. A Good [...]
