"People will increasingly turn to volunteer work to lift their spirits during the economic crisis, " predicts trend analyst Kiwa Iyobe, of the New York City--based marketing consultancy Suite 2046.
Do you plan to work in retirement or do volunteer work to save the world?
The summits sought to engage to get more Hispanics to volunteer and get involved in the work of government.
After two-and-a-half years at Do Something, employees can take a month-long paid sabbatical to do volunteer work if they commit to another year.
Sadder still, she goes back to her old college to work as a volunteer.
Meanwhile, three-year-old Code For America, a nonprofit that recruits experienced coders nationally for projects like building databases for local governments, has expanded its annual fellowship program from three to nine projects and last year launched a broad "brigade" of volunteer techies to work on ad hoc civic programs.
That first week several colleagues and I created an online database to register mental and behavioral health clinicians who wanted to volunteer for disaster relief work.
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Do volunteer to work extra shifts or to put in time during off hours.
Just no pay: and there are those who volunteer to work with the police for free on a regular basis.
Accountants can volunteer to do tax work for nonprofits, for instance.
Others take a tax-deductible working vacation in which they volunteer to do work under the sponsorship of a university or other tax-exempt group.
If some of them wanted a break from domestic routine, they could volunteer to work on the PTA or, if they were wealthy enough, the charity fashion show. ("It is a tradition in the Guggenheimer family that all the men become lawyers and all the women work on committees, " said a story in the Times about some well-to-do New Yorkers.) Men were supposed to be the breadwinners.
Closer to home, volunteer scuba enthusiasts in Sydney work alongside university scientists to replant crayweed, a sea plant that serves as habitat for abalone, lobsters and other fish.
The propensity of women to work in vital but lower paying fields combined with increased volunteer rates and part-time work relative to men hurts our earnings power.
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What does a small amount of paid time off to do volunteer work mean for an employee?
All had to do volunteer work, improve their school attendance or the like.
Retirees who take part in the service might be expected to volunteer, or work part-time in so-called social enterprises.
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To compile the list, we crunched data on more than 400 cities from every state, looking at factors ranging from living costs and taxes to crime to the availability of doctors and the opportunity to stay active with outdoor exercise and volunteer work.
The company also encourage all Googlers to leave work for a day to volunteer each year.
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These include the freedom to manage atypical hours, work from home or take time off to volunteer at a favorite charity.
She was one of the vanguard of lawmakers to allow visitors to her congressional and campaign Web sites to connect with her, or "work as a virtual volunteer, " via a list that includes nearly five dozen social networking tools and multimedia Web sites including Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Digg.
Work is done in a friendly team-oriented manner that makes most people happy to volunteer, even though that work piles onto an already hectic workload from their day job.
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Woodruff, a grandfather who said he loves babies, wanted to do some volunteer work after he retired.
South Korean officials on Saturday confirmed their first case -- a 51-year-old nun who recently traveled to Mexico for volunteer work.
The group has already mobilized numerous volunteer units to deliver essentials and work in the hardest hit areas including Far Rockaway, the Lower East Side, Red Hook and Staten Island.
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We do see multitudes of youth taking part in causes, such as leaving school and work to volunteer in aid of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake victims, or volunteering to support the 2008 Beijing Olympics or the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
To raise money for our work, I started a volunteer travel company that led hundreds of volunteers on trips to Cambodia.
All had to do things like volunteer work or improve their school attendance.
It affected him so much that the following day he quit his job and moved to Rwanda to work as a volunteer.
Their life included a mix of physical activity, family involvement, travel and volunteer work, with the possibility of some part time work to feel productive.
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