Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Sometimes we have volunteers who will pack Traveling Postcards in their suitcase and give them away while they are traveling. We are also planning a trip to Peru! It is a great way to make a personal connection by giving a gift of love. If you want to support Afghan women and girls, make a Traveling Postcard and send it to us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The video producers, a husband/wife team, started their company after doing some volunteer work in Peru with CARE. Footpath Pictures is a small company dedicated to telling the stories of non-profit organizations. Check out this beautifully produced video here.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. CH: Our headquarters office here in Oakland is staffed entirely by volunteers, and I always like people to know that of all of the foundation dollars, and donations and grant money that comes in, I divert 94% of it to our in-country operations.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California. We have a recipe for how to address disaster quickly and effectively: kitchens and volunteers. And it worked really well in Puerto Rico - we’ve served over 3.6

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

Jennifer Lee, Right-Brain Business Plan: How I Have Fun, Do Good Since 2005 I’ve volunteered off and on at a local non-profit called C.E.O. I’ve coached a massage therapist from Japan and a jewelry designer from Peru. Women here in Oakland.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

and "Let's call that person, figure out if they'll volunteer to do that, put it down on paper, get the designers to bang it out, see if it works, and throw it out to the community." Most of our staff did start as a volunteer; about 90 percent of our staff started as volunteers. I am very much a social entrepreneur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

I went off to Peru and went trekking in the mountains, and came face-to-face with developing country poverty for the first time, and thought well, maybe something could be done with engineering, and design, and poverty. I applied for a Fulbright Fellowship to go back to Peru. You're not going to Peru."

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. But I think the work is out there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

It's at Carnegie Hall, and the place fills up, and it's very dramatic, and there's actually quite a lot of press attention as well as shareholder attention, and to hear this woman, this mother, from the forests of Peru, be able to tell her story in such an impassioned way, and to hear the hush fall over the room, and watch people's minds open for just (..)

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