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The holidays are a great opportunity to discuss the importance of giving back with your children Peter Irwin discusses his experience volunteering with Impact Southern Sudan. We hope his experience will inspire you to share and get involved this holiday season and into the New Year. Read More…
Wonder if parent volunteer hours at your child’s school could count toward reducing tuition costs? Check out the answer here! Read more…
National Volunteer Week starts today so we asked Clanmore Montessori School student, Kathryn Austin, how she got involved volunteering and who inspires her to continue helping future generations. Read more…
The more a young adult in today’s world widens their horizons, the richer their lives and greater their prospects will become. Summer is the perfect opportunity for this through the experience of volunteering. One of my clients bristles when I use the word “volunteer” seeing it as merely “working for nothing” (i.e. where’s the money?!?!).
Today I would like to report on Havergal College’s Forum for Change, part of The Havergal Institute, which very successfully works toward making service an integral part of their students’ lives. To quote from the Institute’s literature “The Institute was conceived as a way to enable the evolution of Havergal’s mission from community service to self-efficacy and global capability. Making a difference is to live an effective life in the 21st Century.”
An undersized, underfunded underdog shocks everyone by becoming provincial youth basketball champions–four times. A decade later, former players remember their unsung hero: volunteer Chita Lontoc.
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