Happy Friday! With more holidays coming up right around the corner check out the HandsOn Blog for ways volunteering can help deal with holiday stress. Today's volunteer round up features stories from Giving Tuesday and more:
What will you be doing this Saturday?
For millions of people across the U.S, the answer is one in the same: volunteering in their community.
There are so many kinds of projects that will be under way across the country as part of Make A Difference Day, the nation’s largest day of volunteering.
HandsOn Network is engaged in a focused field investment strategy called Innovation Hubs (iHubs), designed to dramatically accelerate the growth, effectiveness and impact of our network. Through iHubs we are engaging a cohort of our strongest, most progressive market leaders to formulate innovative approaches and pilot best-in-class initiatives with the intent of scaling the most impactful opportunities to benefit the entire network, and ultimately, the communities we serve.
This is republished from today's For the Win series on the White House blog. The series features the remarkable initiatives that young Americans are advancing to win the future for their communities
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Leading up to the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in less than two weeks there will be many civic discussions about all things related to volunteering.
As we conclude the 2011 celebration week of AmeriCorps service honoring past and present AmeriCorps members, HandsOn Network has partnered with Google to create HandsOn Tech, enabling 24 new AmeriCorps*VISTA positions.
