Happy New Year! Here is the first volunteer round up of 2013. We hope we are providing you with content you enjoy, please let us know if there are other topics/articles you'd like to hear about in the comments!

We hope you all had a great holiday and are rested and happy going into 2013. Any social good new years resolutions you want to share?

Since it's been a while since we put together a round up we wanted to add a little more then usual, read highlights from the past two weeks we missed below:

• A New Year's Resolution: Kindness in the Face of Horror.

• 10 of the Year's Best Designs for Social Good.

• Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012.

• Serving Others Makes You Rich.

• Fiscal Cliff Deal Could Hurt Charitable Giving.

• 10 Hot Consumer Trends to Watch in 2013.

• Looking Backwards and Forwards 2012 and 2013 Nonprofit Technology Use.

• New Years Resolution: Travel That Gives Back.

• Volunteers Still Needed for Hurricane Recovery On Long Island.

• How Nonprofits Convince Millenials to Give: Customize the Cause.