"Volunteering" Blogs & Blog Posts

The pre-K kids at Chicago's Parkside Community Academy, who were greeted by a man calling himself "Skinny Santa" yesterday, didn't seem to mind that his costume was about as bad as it could get. They also weren't impressed that the man used to be the...

Jamie Bourke is a volunteer at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution or RNLI. He has missed birthdays, work, and Christmas Day to save lives.

Anna Kaminski says she's seen children fleeing with pets and people injured by bombs, as well as people trying to go back into Ukraine to be closer to their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons who stayed behind to fight.

Volunteering is good. It’s good for the communities and individuals who benefit from it directly, it’s good for the people who do the work, and it’s good for society in general. It can also be good for your career.Read more...

Living through 2020 and what we’ve survived of 2021 so far has prompted many people to reflect on their lives, goals, and priorities. If you’re among them, and realized that you’d like to (eventually) see more of the world and start volunteerin...

Yesterday, a 450-page “investigation on competition in digital markets” was published by the House based on 16 months of evidence gathering, including interviews with employees and past employees and others with first-hand knowledge of th...

If you’re looking for a way to support your community in these pandemic times—or if you have the luxury of having extra grocery money or leftover fruits, veggies and other ingredients that you don’t want to go bad—put them to good use by star...