LaBrot works side by side with his younger sister, Sky, to run the all-volunteer organization.
In San Francisco, California, a volunteer organization called the Urban Wind Task Force has distributed 27 wind-monitoring stations throughout the city to survey sites for potential turbine installations.
Alcoholics Anonymous, on the other hand, is a self organizing, bottom up, all volunteer organization that is almost completely free of the inefficient friction of bosses and bureaucracy.
In his view, human happiness derives neither from external validation nor solely from within, but from "between": through the relationships created by love, work, and "something larger than yourself" -- whether it's a religious group, a volunteer organization, or a political campaign.
One beneficiary of the service surge, the volunteer organization New York Cares, reports a 30 percent increase in prospective volunteers attending orientation sessions in January compared with the same period in 2008, and a monumental 75 percent increase from February 2008 to February 2009.
He volunteered for Mercy Ships, a Christian, all-volunteer doctor organization that performs surgeries in poor countries.
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Since I first wrote about Project Vigilant last Sunday, the elusive, largely-volunteer cybersecurity organization seems to have become all things to all people.
The SBA sent Corcoran to the local branch of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), a volunteer mentoring organization, where he was told he couldn't meet with a counselor until he took (and paid for) a day-long class at the University of Pittsburgh that essentially covered the same material he had learned at Robert Morris.
Volunteer for an organization which is battling such injustices.
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Also know that volunteering, or running the volunteer program for an organization, also can get you into a job you love.
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Rebecca Chin has been a member, leader, and creative talent within the Philadelphia Suns, a volunteer-led, youth organization, which focuses on community building by offering educational, cultural, social, athletic, and service opportunities for Asian American youth, since high school.
If your volunteer experience is substantive and if an organization would have paid for it but for a very good reason that you address, then volunteer experience can be cited competitively in your job hunt.
Readers should remember that it is the UN member states that opt not to have a standing UN army, forcing the organization to rely on 'volunteer' Troop Contributing Countries, who are paid by the UN for their efforts.
The hard part is integrating new media in everything the organization does, using it to transform volunteer recruitment or open a new eight- and nine-figure revenue stream.
President Obama declared January National Human Trafficking Awareness Month, making now a great time to raise awareness, donate to an anti-trafficking organization, or get involved in a volunteer project to combat trafficking.
As a seventh grader, I was invited to volunteer at the High Point Miracle League, an organization that provides an opportunity for children with mental and physical disabilities to participate in baseball games.
Besides forced recruitment, many children volunteer to fight as they have few other options for a livelihood outside of an armed organization.
Founded in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, the International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.
His organization brings non-profit leaders from around the globe to the U.S. to volunteer.
Her organization, Infinite Family, has connected almost 500 teenage "Net Buddies" with nearly 300 volunteer mentors from all over the world via the Internet.
I'm not a director, officer or involved in the day-to-day activities of the organization, but I encouraged the group's creation and help raise money for it as a volunteer.
If you have finance skills and plan to volunteer at a soup kitchen, he says, one hour of your time is worth significantly more for the organization if you spend it helping with budgeting rather than doing a manual task like sorting cans.
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