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Today is #GivingTuesday, a national day to celebrate giving back.
This year, U.S. corporations will provide $15 billion in pro bono services to nonprofits. To make the most of this generous support, nonprofits have to have a plan.
The new Readiness Roadmap, created by Capital One Financial Corporation in partnership with Common Impact, Points of Light and Taproot Foundation, helps them create one.
Be a Joy Maker! For every young person caring, sharing and giving back to their community, Hasbro will donate a toy to Toys for Tots—up to 100,000 toys!
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Learn more about the generationOn holiday gift campaign.
Points of Light is working closely with our HandsOn Network affiliates and partner agencies to coordinate the volunteer response in the communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy to ensure a coordinated response. More than 15,000 volunteers have been engaged to date through our affiliates.
Ways to engage now:
Paul Terry, PhD Editor, The Art of Health Promotion interviewed Michelle Nunn this month. You can find the PDF online here.
"In this month’s issue of The Art of Health Promotion (TAHP), I interview Michelle Nunn, a national leader in the community volunteerism and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) movements...
It's halfway through first period and 10th grade students from Frances Perkins Academy in Brooklyn, N.Y., are in science class. Not in school, but on a specially outfitted bus parked outside.
The monitors above the microscopes flash into focus and the students are suddenly animated.
"There's something moving!" "They're just crawling around." "Do we drink this?"
"Those are protists," Ben Dubin-Thaler tells the students. "And no, we don't drink this. This is puddle water I gathered in the Bronx."
Coca Cola recognizes the inspiring story of San Miguel, a senior flavor chemist and sweetener scientist at The Coca-Cola Company who provides education and employment opportunities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for people with disabilities.
Points of Light connects San Miguel with elementary and middle schools to teach, excite and inspire kids.
Kids and families are kicking off the holiday season with giving and service on Family Volunteer Day, Saturday, Nov. 17.
- What does volunteer service have to do with wellness?
- What can wellness advocates learn from those who mobilize volunteers every day?
- What makes the biggest difference in building a movement - incentives, leadership or timing?
"One of the most common pleas I hear as I go around the country is, 'I want to help our veterans, but I can't figure out how.' Having worked in the government for 41 years, I can understand that. The government is a big bureaucracy and sometimes it can be hard to help."
The Civic 50, published today by Bloomberg Businessweek, offers the nation's first comprehensive ranking of S&P 500 companies that best use their time, talent and resources to improve the quality of life in the communities where they do business.
Zach Certner, one of our generationOn 2012 Hasbro Community Action Heroes is highlighted in Take Part this week.
Zach Certner believes the best people to spread an anti-bullying message for special needs children are their peers.
Michelle's Optimist's Tour of America was published in the AJC this past week.
By Michelle Nunn
More than half of Americans tell pollsters they believe our country is heading in the wrong direction, they doubt their children will have a better future, and they believe American values are eroding.