During my two years of full-time volunteer work, I managed to avoid the temptations of credit cards and cash loans.
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But as the years have passed and I have become involved with braille-related volunteer work on various committees of the Braille Authority of North America (BANA) and the International Council on English Braille (ICEB), I have come to realize an even greater satisfaction, based upon a deeper understanding of the importance of braille in the lives of blind men and women.
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And this is part of the process, as I said yesterday, that isn't always comfortable, that isn't what I think candidates leap up and volunteer to do -- here, look at all of my financial records.
Even minor policy resonated with me, like making emergency contraception available over the counter, something I had argued for as a 16-year-old Planned Parenthood volunteer.
Since I first wrote about Project Vigilant last Sunday, the elusive, largely-volunteer cybersecurity organization seems to have become all things to all people.
On my second day at the conference, I joined conversations on micro-volunteering, a new way for employees to volunteer from their desk via websites like Sparked.com.
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Recently I read a story about a young Austrian woman working as a United Nations volunteer in war-torn Somalia.
"I came here because they've just trashed my neighborhood, " Battersea resident and clean-up volunteer Jilly Bruce, 40, said.
It is time for women to stand up to seize this moment, as sure to wreak havoc with prevailing norms as the Second Wave feminism that inspired me in the 1960s to morph from real West Texas housewife (I mean really real -- three kids by age 20 and no employable skills) to college student to volunteer women's activist to a full-out career.
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