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China Social Entrepreneurs

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just received an update from KK Tse entitled The Most Inspiring Story from the Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship, talking about 1KG More, a social enterprise that implemented Voluntourism: combining backpacking with delivering books and other gifts for rural Chinese children. The owners of these two books will become a "twin".

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Switching gears: How I found my place in volunteering

ASU Lodestar Center

This phenomenon was explained more fully in an article from the Catholic Sun in April 2007. As the years went on, my daughter grew into a toddler, and then a preschooler, as children tend to do, and with that she became hungry for my time and attention. Like this article? So, I adjusted. then you're going to burn out.".

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. For the last two years we’ve been bombarded with articles from bloggers and the mainstream media that MySpace is dead. The AFL-CIO is non-existent and the Teamsters haven’t logged in since 2007.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums?

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Research Friday: Arizona’s seniors: The latest profile of volunteering behavior

ASU Lodestar Center

This strong relationship was also evident for informal social networks where friend and neighbor interactions significantly increased the likelihood of volunteering (Bekkers, 2005; Okun, Pugliese, Rook, 2007). Like this article? What about volunteers in Arizona and particularly senior volunteers? Pugliese, J. Get another!

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Research Friday: Expect to find the Unexpected!

ASU Lodestar Center

1] Education, religion, age, and income are some variables that are typically studied in relationship to formal giving and volunteering, informal or personal giving and volunteering, and secular and religious volunteering (Sundeen, Garcia, and Wang, 2007). [2] Like this article? Sundeen et. Get another! Sources: ^ [1] Sundeen, R.

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Giving When You're Unemployed: It Could Make You Happier and Wealthier

Have Fun - Do Good

A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. Arthur Brooks' September 2007 article in the Journal of Economics and Finance , Does Giving Makes Us Prosperous ?, There are so many ways to give.

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