Posts for October, 2012
Today's post is written by Lance Trebesch, CEO of TicketPrinting.com & Ticket River, which offers a variety of event products and ticketing services. After 19 years of Silicon Valley experience, Lance found the key to happiness is helping customers worldwide beautify and monetize their events with brilliant print products and event services.
In a recent Points of Light guest post, Samantha Gray asked a question: should community service be a graduation requirement? This question stuck with me for many days. On my drive to work, I'd find myself thinking about it and pondering the many arguments for or against. Instinctually, I felt against such an idea. After all, volunteerism should be about intent, not coercion. But then another idea struck me.
Today's post is written by Marcela Campos, founder of HandsOn Bogota. Founding board member of HandsOn Tokyo is now striving to make a difference in Bogota by establishing HandsOn Bogota, the first HandsOn Action Center in Colombia.
The world is my community. Born in Germany of diplomat Argentine parents, I was raised in the U.S. and Canada, where I was introduced to volunteering at an early age through school and Girl Scouts activities. As a teenager in Argentina, I continued my volunteer work through school and then made sure that my life travels did not stop there. My six-month trip to Asia turned into 11 years in Tokyo, Japan, where I met my Colombian husband and had two daughters. I also met the most amazing group of friends who became the founding board of directors for HandsOn Tokyo.