Podcasts about volunteermatch

What happens when two mission-aligned nonprofits decide to merge? Farra Trompeter, co-director, chats with Idealist's founder and executive director, Ami Dar, about their recent merger with VolunteerMatch—and what other orgs can learn from it.

In this episode, we focus on declining nonprofit website traffic due to AI search tools. Key points include: Nonprofit website traffic is declining as AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's AI overviews reduce the need for users to visit original content sources. Major content creators like HubSpot have lost up to 80% of their traffic due to these changes. We recommend: Adjusting traffic expectations (considering "break-even" the new growth) Focusing on conversion rate optimization Creating original research and data that AI can't replicate Using Google Search Console to identify which content triggers AI results Additional stories covered: A discussion about nonprofit mergers based on Idealist.org's merger with VolunteerMatch.org USAID funding cuts affecting humanitarian aid organizations and their life-saving programs A success story about a Massachusetts movie theater saved by converting to a nonprofit model

In this episode, we focus on declining nonprofit website traffic due to AI search tools. Key points include: Nonprofit website traffic is declining as AI tools like ChatGPT and Google's AI overviews reduce the need for users to visit original content sources. Major content creators like HubSpot have lost up to 80% of their traffic due to these changes. We recommend: Adjusting traffic expectations (considering "break-even" the new growth) Focusing on conversion rate optimization Creating original research and data that AI can't replicate Using Google Search Console to identify which content triggers AI results Additional stories covered: A discussion about nonprofit mergers based on Idealist.org's merger with VolunteerMatch.org USAID funding cuts affecting humanitarian aid organizations and their life-saving programs A success story about a Massachusetts movie theater saved by converting to a nonprofit model

Ami Dar, founder of Idealist.org, joins George for an insightful conversation on the groundbreaking merger between Idealist and VolunteerMatch.org—a rare consolidation poised to reshape nonprofit and volunteer engagement globally. Ami shares candid insights into why nonprofit mergers rarely happen, systemic challenges in nonprofit funding, and how this merger creates a single hub for millions seeking jobs, volunteer opportunities, and meaningful community involvement. He also discusses underutilized tech opportunities, Idealist's exciting new "Idealist Days" initiative, and why he's optimistic about nonprofits providing purpose in an AI-driven future. Big questions covered in this conversation: Why did Idealist.org and VolunteerMatch.org decide to merge, and what unique value does this merger bring to nonprofits and volunteers? Why are mergers so rare in the nonprofit sector, and what factors (like ego and financial security) prevent more organizations from consolidating? How are systemic funding issues impacting nonprofit efficiency and accountability, and what changes are needed to improve nonprofit outcomes? What trends are shaping volunteerism today, and how can nonprofits better harness the desire for community engagement and purpose-driven work? How can nonprofits leverage emerging technology and AI, and what role can the nonprofit sector play in providing meaningful human purpose in an increasingly automated world?

In this episode of Nonprofit Newsfeed, George Weiner, Chief Whaler at Whole Whale - a marketing and analytics agency for nonprofits, is joined by Leo Quintero, VP of Learning and Innovation. Together, they delve into the rare and exciting news of a merger between Volunteer Match and Idealist.org, two titans in the nonprofit sector. This merger promises to consolidate resources and enhance the ability to connect individuals with volunteer opportunities and nonprofit jobs across the globe. Main Highlights: Volunteer Match and Idealist.org Merger: This rare merger in the nonprofit sector aims to combine forces to better serve nonprofits and volunteers. With Volunteer Match's expertise in connecting nonprofits with volunteers and Idealist's broad reach in nonprofit jobs and internships, the merger is set to be a game-changer in the sector. The merger will maintain both platforms' existing functionalities while working toward greater integration by 2025. Implications for HR and Volunteers: Leo highlights the potential benefits for HR departments and nonprofits, suggesting that the merger will enhance the quality and reach of volunteer recruitment. The integration of platforms may lead to a richer pool of talent and volunteers, benefiting nonprofits in need of diverse skill sets. Compliance and Campaign Finance: A significant portion of the episode discusses the $300,000 fine levied on the New Georgia Project for campaign finance violations. This segment underscores the importance of compliance in nonprofit operations, especially when involved in lobbying and advocacy. Google Advertising Challenges for Nonprofits: The episode addresses recent changes in Google's advertising policies that allow other entities to use nonprofit brand terms in search ads, potentially driving up costs. George advises nonprofits to leverage Google Ad Grants effectively to maintain visibility without overspending. Community Engagement on MLK Day: The episode closes with a feel-good story about Vermont nonprofits honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day through community service and engagement, highlighting the power of community-driven initiatives.

In this episode of Nonprofit Newsfeed, George Weiner, Chief Whaler at Whole Whale - a marketing and analytics agency for nonprofits, is joined by Leo Quintero, VP of Learning and Innovation. Together, they delve into the rare and exciting news of a merger between Volunteer Match and Idealist.org, two titans in the nonprofit sector. This merger promises to consolidate resources and enhance the ability to connect individuals with volunteer opportunities and nonprofit jobs across the globe. Main Highlights: Volunteer Match and Idealist.org Merger: This rare merger in the nonprofit sector aims to combine forces to better serve nonprofits and volunteers. With Volunteer Match's expertise in connecting nonprofits with volunteers and Idealist's broad reach in nonprofit jobs and internships, the merger is set to be a game-changer in the sector. The merger will maintain both platforms' existing functionalities while working toward greater integration by 2025. Implications for HR and Volunteers: Leo highlights the potential benefits for HR departments and nonprofits, suggesting that the merger will enhance the quality and reach of volunteer recruitment. The integration of platforms may lead to a richer pool of talent and volunteers, benefiting nonprofits in need of diverse skill sets. Compliance and Campaign Finance: A significant portion of the episode discusses the $300,000 fine levied on the New Georgia Project for campaign finance violations. This segment underscores the importance of compliance in nonprofit operations, especially when involved in lobbying and advocacy. Google Advertising Challenges for Nonprofits: The episode addresses recent changes in Google's advertising policies that allow other entities to use nonprofit brand terms in search ads, potentially driving up costs. George advises nonprofits to leverage Google Ad Grants effectively to maintain visibility without overspending. Community Engagement on MLK Day: The episode closes with a feel-good story about Vermont nonprofits honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day through community service and engagement, highlighting the power of community-driven initiatives.

The holidays are a season of giving, and there's no better time to lend a helping hand to those in need. Sapreet Saluja, executive director of New York Cares, joins us to discuss how you can get involved with volunteer opportunities across NYC. From coat drives to meal deliveries, learn how to make a meaningful impact in your community this season.

In the nonprofit world, marketing and communications teams often face unique challenges with limited resources and growing expectations. In this episode, host Spencer Brooks interviews Lauren Cotter, Marketing Director at Community Tech Network, about her journey from being a solo marketer to leading a team that drives digital literacy initiatives for underserved communities. Listen in for insights on managing marketing in small nonprofits, leveraging digital tools, and navigating complex stakeholder dynamics—ideal for nonprofit leaders, digital marketers, and health communications professionals. About the guest Lauren Cotter is the Marketing and Communications Director at Community Tech Network (CTN), with over 30 years of experience in marketing, sales, and communications. Lauren has been instrumental in promoting CTN's mission and impact and growth. She joined CTN as an Encore Fellow during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has since used her expertise in branding, strategic positioning, media, social media, Google Ads, analytics, content and design, and public relations to further CTN's initiatives. Lauren is passionate about bridging the digital divide and ensuring that everyone, especially seniors, the disabled, and marginalized communities, has access to the digital tools they need to thrive in today's world. Resources Canva for graphics: https://www.canva.com/Hootsuite's free version for scheduling social media also has a content calendar.: https://www.hootsuite.com/Google Ad Grants: Google grants $10,000 a month for a qualifying non-profit: https://www.google.ca/grants/Hubspot has great marketing blogs: https://www.hubspot.com/Monday.com: https://monday.com/Volunteer Match for volunteers: https://www.volunteermatch.org/ChatGPT for help with writing: https://chatgpt.com/ Contact Lauren Email: lauren@communitytechnetwork.orgWebsite: https://communitytechnetwork.org/

Part 2: 30 Ways to Show Gratitude and Transform Your Life Instantly (Points 7 - 18) Welcome back to America's #1 Daily Podcast,  featuring America's #1 Real Estate Coaches and Top EXP Realty Sponsors in the World, Tim and Julie Harris. Ready to become an EXP Realty Agent and join Tim and Julie Harris?  Visit: https://whylibertas.com/harris or text Tim directly at 512-758-0206. IMPORTANT: Join #1 Real Estate Coaches Tim and Julie Harris's Premier Coaching now for FREE. Included is a DAILY Coaching Session with a HARRIS Certified Coach. Proven and tested lead generation, systems, and scripts designed for this market. Instant FREE Access Now: YES, Enroll Me NOW In Premier Coaching https://premiercoaching.com 7. Show Enthusiastic Thanks Use phrases like, “You really made a difference!” and avoid defaulting to just “thanks.” The extra enthusiasm makes it memorable. 8. Compliment Specific Qualities Recognize unique traits in those around you. A specific compliment, like noticing someone's sense of humor or positivity, makes them feel seen. 9. Volunteer for Others' Causes Look for volunteer opportunities related to causes your clients support. Websites like VolunteerMatch can help you find local events. Share your experience online to highlight the cause. 10. Stay Gracious in Tough Situations When a situation becomes difficult, pause and take a deep breath. Respond thoughtfully and keep the focus on resolution instead of “winning.” HUGE Announcement: You will love this! Looking for the full outline from today's presentation? Our DAILY Newsletter featured lead generation systems, real estate scripts, daily success plans and (YES) the notes or today's show. Best part? The newsletter is free! https://harrisrealestatedaily.com/

In this episode, Elizabeth and Taylor break down essential college planning and prep tips for each year of high school. We cover everything from freshman to seniors, academics to extracurriculars, and college visits to college applications. Tune in for actionable advice and reliable resources to guide students through each stage of their high school journey toward college readiness!Resources mentioned:Passion Planner - for keeping things organizedBrag Sheet example - for letters of recommendation Volunteermatch.org - for seeking volunteer opportunitiesIn this episode we focus on how:Freshmen should focus on academics and extracurriculars.Sophomores are encouraged to explore career interests and leadership opportunities. Juniors dive into standardized tests, college research, and essay prep. For seniors, it's all about finalizing applications, financial aid, and decision-making.The Admissions Club Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things college admissions, complete with a nostalgic 80s playlist and Gen X vibes. It's hard to believe that we've traded in scrunchies and Bruce Springsteen posters for walking our kids through the college admissions process! But, we are here to share our experience in higher education and direct college admissions with you and your student so you don't have to walk it alone. Connect with EWC! Website Facebook YouTube LinkedIn

Bee Davis, founder of Life, Love & Travel and podcast host of Beachside Banter with Bee, is here to share her favorite beaches in the Caribbean islands. We talk about how to find the best beaches and travel tips for solo beachgoers. Plus, Bee has been volunteering while on vacation for awhile, and she shares excellent tips and insights into how to volunteer while you travel. Explore Life, Love & Travel online, and listen to the Beachside Banter with Bee podcast.. Connect with Bee Davis on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. If you'll be in Aruba and are interesting in helping animals, check out the Luna Foundation.  If you're traveling in the United States and are interested in volunteer opportunities, check out VolunteerMatch.com to find an opportunity to serve. Join the Me and the Magic Community Join the Me and the Magic Facebook community to share your love of solo travel, Disney travel, and more with new friends. Plus, share your thoughts and questions on this episode with the community! Connect with Amanda Is there a topic you'd like us to discuss? Email Amanda at amanda@meandthemagic.com.   Are you on Instagram? Follow Me and the Magic to see the latest posts, stories, and IGTV.  Subscribe to the Me and the Magic weekly newsletter for exclusive content, including solo travel tips! Me and the Magic has voicemail! Leave a voicemail or text to 1-347-74MAGIC (1-347-746-2442). Share your thoughts about this episode, a future episode topic idea, or just say hi! Podcast Subscribe to this podcast so you will be the first to hear new episodes!  If you are enjoying the podcast, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could rate and review it on Apple Podcasts. The reviews help other people find this podcast.  Online Shop Buy some fun travel and pop culture shirts and more, at our online shop!

Are you running a small non-profit organization and looking for ways to save money and maximize your resources? In this quick podcast episode, Susan Finch, our founder, shares some valuable tips and resources that can help you streamline your operations and promote your cause more effectively. From free email services to volunteer recruitment platforms, Susan covers a range of tools that can benefit your organization without breaking the bank. Listen in to discover how to take your non-profit to the next level! Key resources mentioned: Google Workspace: Offers free, unlimited email accounts for non-profits with their domain (e.g., @binkypatrol.org). TechSoup (techsoup.org): Provides discounts on software, equipment, training, and accounting services for 501(c)(3) organizations. Nextdoor: A platform where you can register your non-profit, post events, and engage in conversations with the local community. Local media outlets: Television stations, newspapers, and community broadcasting stations often have opportunities for non-profits to promote events, volunteer opportunities, or share success stories. Local service organizations: Connect with groups like the Scouts, Lions, Elks, and Kiwanis, as they may have resource directories or volunteer opportunities. City resources: Register your 501(c)(3) with your local city to be included in their community resources and post volunteer opportunities. VolunteerMatch (volunteermatch.org): A platform to create and manage volunteer opportunities at a low cost with excellent support and resources for non-profits. Here are some key questions listeners should discuss with their non-profit leadership to identify additional local partners and resources: Have we reached out to local businesses to explore potential partnerships, sponsorships, or in-kind donations? Are there any local community foundations or grant-making organizations that align with our mission and could provide funding opportunities? Have we connected with local schools, universities, or educational institutions to discuss volunteer recruitment, internship programs, or collaborative projects? Are there any local faith-based organizations or religious institutions that share our values and could become partners in our cause? Have we investigated potential partnerships with other local non-profits that have complementary missions or serve similar populations? Are there any local professional associations, trade groups, or industry-specific organizations that could provide resources, expertise, or networking opportunities? Have we explored partnerships with local government agencies, such as social services departments, to identify areas of collaboration or support? Are there any local service clubs, like Rotary or Kiwanis, that we could engage with for volunteer recruitment or community outreach? Have we contacted local media outlets to discuss potential partnerships, such as public service announcements or featured stories? Are there any upcoming local events, festivals, or conferences that we could participate in to raise awareness about our organization and build community connections? By exploring these questions and proactively seeking out local partnerships, non-profit leaders can tap into a wealth of resources and expand their organization's impact within the community.

The Cabin is presented by the Wisconsin Counties Association and this week we're featuring Polk County: https://bit.ly/3OELsFN  The Cabin is also brought to you by Group Health Trust: https://bit.ly/3JMizCX   Campfire Conversation:  In this episode of The Cabin, Ana, Eric, and Jake welcome 2024 and divvy up some resolutions in the areas of giving, healthier living, and healthier eating, respectively. Ana focuses on giving more in 2024 and explores a variety of interesting charitable events and organizations. She goes to Lake Geneva to explore things like the Mr. Lake Geneva Pageant, where men compete pageant-style to benefit area nonprofits as well as charity events centered around golf, biking, and more. She explores Cycling Without Age, an organization that provides rides to elderly people in need - it started in Denmark and now has chapters in 39 countries, including the US and Wisconsin. DoorTran, a transportation service in Door County, does similar work in Wisconsin's most famous peninsula. Conservation alliances in Wisconsin advance the quality of life in communities as well as the environment, and Ana shares the one in Sauk Prairie, which is also active in revamping the former Badger Army Ammunition Plant grounds. Serving as a mentor is another wonderful way to “pay it forward,” and programs like the Outagamie County Mentoring Program illustrate these benefits. She also discusses a variety of walks and runs, galas, interesting contests, festivals and more that benefit communities across the state. VolunteerMatch.org provides a good resource for finding some of them.Eric dives into some unique Wisconsin workouts and ways to get in better shape for 2024(hey, he tries every year) and some of those workouts include yoga with goats or alpacas - oddly soothing for some reason; curling and ice skating in winter; pole fitness; bungee workouts at places like Swoop; TRX and cycle workouts at places like CycleBar, Spire, and Barre Code; and unique spots like Bounce Trampoline at Hometown Pilates in Fitchburg, which combines dance, music and bounce for a full cardio workout, and also helps with balance and coordination and studies have shown bounce is good for lymph circulation. More fun than your usual regular run or some sit-ups!Jake discusses food as part of his resolution, and covers examples of places around the state where you can eat healthier. Places around the state are now offering fresher and healthier grab-and-go meals and you can find them at markets like The Farmacy in Green Bay, co-ops like Willy Street in Madison, People's Co-Op in La Crosse, and Outpost Natural Foods, which has multiple locations around Milwaukee, and more. Farmers markets have greatly multiplied in number across the state where you can get fresh-grown food from area farms, bakers, and more; they're often a great way to kick off your weekend. Many of these markets take place in the warmer months, but more and more communities have winter markets indoors. Jake also drops some favorites across the state, including Downtown Grocery in Wausau; Thai Basil in Madison; Subhouse in Hudson, and Island Cafe in Minocqua, where you'll find a Mediterranean menu amidst an area primarily known for pub food and fish fries in the great North Woods. He provides a nice blueprint for places that offer that combination of tasty cuisine and better nutrition many of us want.Hope your New Year's resolutions work well and you have a happy, healthy 2024!   Inside Sponsors:Jefferson County: https://bit.ly/3gt0Nau   

Jude O'Reilley is the CEO of VolunteerMatch, the web's largest volunteer engagement network that has been creating solutions that make it easier for individuals, nonprofits, and companies to make a difference since 1998. Jude is focused on enabling extraordinary people to give their time to inspiring causes, like poverty alleviation, food distribution, education, mentorship and much more. -- If you haven't yet had the chance, make sure to register for our 2024 Real Leaders Impact Awards. Our Impact Award winners gain access to a values aligned community, credibility through Real Leaders, and access to our network of Impact capital sources. Apply now to claim your discounted application: ⁠https://eunbi5zgbx7.typeform.com/to/XNdfGsS2#app_first_name=xxxxx&company_name=xxxxx&work_email=xxxxx&campaign_name=xxxxx&channel=LN&owner=Z⁠ Also, check out Outsource Access for all of your Virtual Staffing Needs. At an affordable rate you can outsource the work you need to get done at an extremely affordable rate. You can find more info about them here using this link. https://outsourceaccess.com/

Welcome to another episode of Volunteer All Heart from Binky Patrol. I'm your host Susan Finch, and today we have two of our amazing volunteers joining us to share their experiences hosting Bink-A-Thons in their communities. First up is Binky Patrol director, Carolyn Berndt, one of our dedicated volunteers who helped organize a small but mighty Bink-A-Thon with kids from a local charter school. She knows the power of involving youth in service. We'll also hear from Daphne Boyd, a longtime New Jersey Binky Patrol Area Coordinator who partnered with her local library for a Bink-A-Thon. Daphne knows the importance of engaging senior volunteers, using online volunteer platforms, and allowing flexible participation. Both ladies have great tips to share from their events, which the MrBallen Foundation sponsored. They'll inspire you with how our volunteers unite to make blankets and hope for children and families nationwide. Stay tuned! Here are some key tips from this episode and our recent event: Partner with organizations receiving donations to help promote and recruit event volunteers through their newsletters, social media, etc. Involve youth groups like Girl Scouts or school kids to participate in service activities. It teaches them to help others. Engage senior communities in making items, giving them a sense of purpose. Use online volunteer platforms like VolunteerMatch.org to manage and recruit volunteers. Have multiple admins. List your non-profit in volunteer directories like 211 and United Way to increase visibility. Consider hosting events in different seasons to provide more opportunities for involvement. Block enough time for setup, the event itself, and clean-up when planning. Allow some flexibility. Develop partnerships with local schools, companies, stores, etc. to host drives or service days. Provide options for volunteers with limited time, like setup/cleanup help only. Learn more at https://binkypatrol.org 

⭐ My guest today is Lila Preston, Head of Generation Growth Equity. Generation Growth Equity is a part of the larger Generation Investment Management, an investment management firm founded in 2004 by former US Vice President Al Gore and Goldman Sachs' Asset Management head David Blood, with a focus on sustainable investment options. They now manage about $40B. Generation Growth Equity invests globally in growth-stage, private companies with proven technology and commercial traction, run by talented, mission-driven management teams. They take active minority positions in companies that are driving broad-based, system-positive change. They're now investing out of their fourth fund, a $1.7B vehicle. Lila joined Generation in 2004. Previously, she was a director of finance and development at VolunteerMatch in San Francisco and was also a Fulbright Fellow in Southern Chile. She received a BA in English and Latin American Studies from Stanford University and an MBA from London Business School. She serves on the board of Nature's Fynd and as a board observer for CiBO Technologies, Optoro, and Pivot Bio. She is also on the Board of Advisors at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. ---

We've got a feel good episode for you today. Inspired by Emily's story of helping a man having problems with his van.Want to learn more about the power of paying it forward? Check out these websites:1. Random Acts of Kindness Foundation - www.randomactsofkindness.org2. Kindness UK - https://kindnessuk.com thanks to Louise Talmage for this one3. Volunteer Match - www.volunteermatch.org4. Good news - thehappynewspaper.com shout out to Sarah Stephens for this bit of cheer5. Nominate someone who needs help - 52-lives.org thanks to Mel Abplanalp for this suggestion 6. The king of random acts of kindness courtesy of Mike Rothwell - Troy HawkeWe want to make kindness contagious. Have a listen and if you feel inspired to do something extra kind, we want to hear from you. Drop us an email at womenandmoneycafe@gmail.comYOUR HOSTJulie Flynn is an experienced independent financial adviser and financial coach. Justice and equality drive Julie. Which is why she's spent years studying and researching how stress affects our financial decision making.Julie is best known for her work with women who have lost their partner and coaching financial services business who want to implement fair and transparent charges.Ebb & Flow Financial Coaching | Bree Wealth & Tax | InstagramCO-HOSTSEmily Pool is a Financial Planner and Will Writer. She is passionate about empowering people to invest their wealth (pensions and savings) sustainably and in line with their personal values. Michelle Lambell  started her career in financial services as a Stockbroker in 1999 undertaking both advisory and discretionary investment management. Today she is a Chartered Financial Planner, specialising in retirement planning advice, pensions and investments and a Certified Financial Coach. Support the show✅ And if you enjoyed the show, please leave us a review.We genuinely love hearing your questions and feedback. So, email us a voice note womenandmoneycafe@gmail.com or via instagram with your thoughts and suggestions.

Nestled within our shared quest for mental well-being lies the compelling notion of legacy. "P.S.A. - The Mental Health Podcast," meticulously crafted to echo young black men's distinct mental health experiences, proudly presents a conversation with William Winfield, delving deep into the multifaceted realm of legacy and its overarching impact.Our exploration springs from the insights of influential thinkers like Peter Strople, who so eloquently asserts that legacy's essence isn't just material inheritance but the lasting imprint we leave in people's hearts. Likewise, Billy Graham's profound thoughts on character and faith serve as a guiding compass, leading us to understand the deep essence of creating a lasting impression in this world. William's journey, punctuated with struggles and aspirations, is a testament to the invincible spirit that legacy-building requires.The foundation that William has built over the years, the audience he caters to, and the accolades he has received from noteworthy individuals, provides a rich tapestry for a thoughtful reflection. It's no wonder that his esteemed work prompts us to ponder the intricate relationship between legacy-building and mental well-being. Research, such as that from the Journal of Positive Psychology, suggests that having a purpose - often anchored in the creation of a legacy - acts as a bedrock for sound mental health. This idea finds resonance in Erik Erikson's impactful theory of "Generativity vs. Stagnation", illuminating the psychological upliftment stemming from legacy-driven pursuits.However, our discussion isn't just a collection of highbrow thoughts. It throbs with genuine emotion, light-hearted humor, and profound spiritual wisdom. Anchored in scriptures like Psalm 112:1-3 and Proverbs 13:22, we strive to lift our understanding from the ordinary to the divine. An intriguing question surfaces in this context: how can the concept of legacy be universally relevant, resonating from the bustling streets of Canada to the scenic landscapes of South Africa?William's journey, rich with life's highs and lows, portrays sheer resilience. He doesn't shy away from revealing his challenges, offering hope to listeners with similar battles. His blueprint for building a legacy is outlined as:1. Nurturing Deep Relationships - Building enduring bonds, enriched by insights from The Gottman Institute and Brené Brown.2. Continual Personal Growth and Learning - The importance of ever-evolving learning, drawing inspiration from platforms like Medium's "The Mission".3. Active Participation in Community and Social Endeavors - Leading positive change, facilitated by platforms like VolunteerMatch and Causeartist.As the conversation continues, William shares intimate snippets of his life, touching upon themes of fatherhood, faith, determination, and the importance of role models, especially in the context of black communities. His stories, rich with life's lessons, prompt us to reflect: "What legacy is our own life carving out?"This episode promises a symphony of emotions, insights, and inspiration. Journey with us, alongside William Winfield as we navigate the intricate pathways of legacy-building. Come, immerse yourself, ponder, and maybe, just maybe, chart a renewed course for your legacy! ✨William Winfield's Social MediaInstagram: @willisblessedWebsites: ​⁠ https://secretsaucespeakers.com/opt-in-page1654020881285

We are pleased to discuss and bring to our audience a new research report from my friends at VolunteerMatch and how we connect hopeful and helpful data from today's volunteers. In today's episode, we have Darcy Hughes and Jennifer Bennett. Jennifer is the Director of Education & Training joined VolunteerMatch to formalize and manage the organization's volunteer engagement program. With her breadth of experience, she is well qualified to help VolunteerMatch's community of nonprofits better recruit and engage volunteers.  Darcy is the Content & Storytelling Manager, responsible for newsletters for nonprofits and volunteers, conducting surveys, execute marketing and sponsorship campaigns, and their social media, basically all external communications to broader audiences.We discussed what does their recent research tell us about where volunteers are at as we come out of  nearly three years of a pandemic, some of the key takeaways and what does it tell us about where volunteers are at right now.Full show notes: 052– New Volunteer Research with Jennifer Bennett and Darcy Hughes of VolunteerMatchThanks for listening to this episode of the Volunteer Nation podcast. If you enjoyed it, please be sure to subscribe, rate, and review so we can reach more people like you who want to improve the impact of their good cause. For more tips and notes from the show, check us out at TobiJohnson.com. For any comments or questions, email us at WeCare@VolPro.net.

How much impact does volunteerism have on our wellbeing?  Hear from Jude O'Reilley, CEO of VolunteerMatch, as he talks with Blackbaud's social responsiblity manager Melissa Furr about how volunteerism is closely tied to personal health and wellbeing. Jude and Melissa share how you can incorporate volunteering in the workplace and acheive the feeling of being connected to something larger than oneself. Topics covered in this episode: What is VolunteerMatch? A longing for community The four pillars of wellbeing Best practices Employee Input Physical, Financial, Emotional, Social, and Intellectual wellness VolunteerMatch's new campaign Get that Grin Resources: Get that Grin VolunteerMatch Edelman Trust Barometer Quotes: "One best practice is to think beyond the volunteer day." "We shouldn't underestimate employees themselves being the key motivator for other employees." "Most people rely on colleagures and their employer for information that they trust the most."

According to Ruha Benjamin, we're living inside someone else's imagination. An imagination that  limits our ability to build a more just, liberated world. So, how do we take back our agency and begin to seed something different? Baratunde talks with Princeton professor and founding director of the Just Data Lab, Ruha Benjamin to find out.   SHOW ACTIONS Internally Reflect - Bear witness and create a ripple This one is inspired from Ruha's book Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want which says: “…bear witness to the weight of individual and communal protective acts and consider how all of us can be involved in sheltering one another from the rain and sun by cultivating relationships, skills, accountability, and healing.” Think about when you witnessed someone near you perform an act of justice or kindness or protection for another. Was it a big or small act? Did it require courage? How did witnessing that make you feel about the world? Is it something you could repeat and further the impact? Become More Informed - Learn about racial justice  Ruha recommends Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander both of which you can find on our Bookshop page.   Publicly Participate - Invest in your community using your time & skills Check out ways to invest and get to know your community using your existing skills and experience.  If you're 60+ check out Thirdact.org and Cogenerate.org. If you're 25-59 check out Volunteermatch.org and Catchafire.org. If you're 16-24 check out Civicsunplugged.org and Youthclimatelobby.org.   SHOW NOTES Walk through Breonna's Garden and check out Lady Phoenix's IG for more.  Find How To Citizen on Instagram or visit howtocitizen.com to join our mailing list and find ways to citizen besides listening to this podcast!  Please show your support for the show by reviewing and rating. It makes a huge difference with the algorithmic overlords and helps others like you find the show! How To Citizen is hosted by Baratunde Thurston. He's also host and executive producer of the PBS series, America Outdoors as well as a founding partner and writer at Puck. You can find him all over the internet.    CREDITS How To Citizen with Baratunde is a production of iHeartRadio Podcasts and Rowhome Productions. Our Executive Producers are Baratunde Thurston and Elizabeth Stewart. Allie Graham is our Lead Producer and Danya AbdelHameid is our Associate Producer. Alex Lewis is our Managing Producer. John Myers is our Executive Editor and Mix Engineer. Original Music by Andrew Eapen and Blue Dot Sessions. Our Audience Engagement Fellows are Jasmine Lewis and Gabby Rodriguez. Special thanks to Joelle Smith from iHeartRadio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We speak with Samir Shah, Vice President, Partnerships & Customer Success at VolunteerMatch.

January has been a great start to 2023 for Social Media Ministries. We have accomplished a lot and are looking forward to everything that God is going to do this year! Our monthly accomplishments: - Continued Posting 1 Sermon Each Week - Continued Posting 1 Podcast Each Week - Continued Posting A Daily Verse on Facebook, Instagram, & TikTok - Continued the Ministry Minute on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, & YouTube - Continued the Ministry Minute Podcast - Received a couple of volunteers through Volunteer Match! - Began some email marketing with Apollo.io - Amazon discontinued AmazonSmiles :( You can still support us through ourAmazon Registry - Walmart sent us $50 worth of items from our Walmart Registry! - Received some donations from our Facebook & Instagram fundraisers Social Media Ministries is a project created by Spencer Coffman that is committed to spreading the Word of God to every place possible. We are founded on the belief that social media is the place to reach more people in more places and are counting on you to help us fulfill our mission. Learn more at https://socialmediaministries.com ------------------------------------------ MISSION: To use social media to present the living Word of God to as many people as possible and to help them understand and interpret the scriptures in the Bible. ------------------------------------------ FOLLOW US: YouTube Podcast Instagram Facebook Medium Pinterest TikTok LinkedIn ------------------------------------------ DONATE: https://paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/4478888 https://socialmediaministries.com/give ------------------------------------------ Apparel ------------------------------------------ 365 Days Of Devotion by Spencer Coffman --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/social-media-ministries/support

What can I give? How can I give the gift of service? Is the gift of service better than tangible gift items? Do I have to give material gifts? How can I give without gifts? How do I give during the holidays? Do I have to go into debt during the holiday? What gifts are expected? What are the holiday expectations? Why is Christmas so materialistic? In this episode of Love Always, Self, Karista & Shyra discuss holiday gift giving and how materialism has altered our perspectives of giving to others. The majority of families in America are living paycheck to paycheck and the expectation to give gifts beyond our means during the holiday causes extended financial stress beyond the holidays. So how can you give without extending yourself beyond your means? Questions to ask yourself to understand your relationship to gift giving: Am I giving gifts to receive gifts back? Am I giving because of the expectations of others? Am I giving out of fear of not being enough? Alternative “giving” ideas: Volunteer as a family to give back to those that are truly without or in needAnimal shelters Homeless shelters Battered women's shelters Big Brother, Big Sister Blue or Brown Santa Making blankets for homeless Write holiday letters to seniors in assisted living facilities or to children in hospitals Days of kindness; finding one opportunity every day to lift a stranger up Pick an Angel from the Salvation Army Tree (no longer a the mall; located at Wal-mart) Spend quality time togetherGame night Walking the neighborhood admiring holiday lights Holiday crafts Caroling, the gift of song Do yard work for neighbors Host a neighborhood food drive   : Other mentions: Volunteer Match https://www.volunteermatch.org/ Operation Blue Santa https://www.bluesanta.org/ Salvation Army Angel Tree https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/walmart-angel-tree/ Build-A-Bear Foundation https://www.buildabear.com/build-a-bear-foundation.html : Announcements: We've launched Divine Living: Style & Decor! Let us help you embrace your space! https://www.divinelivingstyledecor.com/ For those looking for holiday gift ideas, you can shop our Amazon Favorites on our website! https://www.lovealwaysself.com/amazon-favorites : Episode Suggestions: Episode 78: Where Your Attention Goes Your Energy Flows; Be What You Want To See In The World Episode 76: What Is The Story You're Telling Yourself? How Your Thoughts Play A Part Episode 75: Taking Your Own Advice Through Journaling Episode 73: Shifting Perspectives: Deciding On The Perspective Episode 48: Are We Being Called To Humility? Episode 24: Raise Your Vibration; Understanding and Practicing Gratitude Episode 20: It's Time To Play; Incorporating Play In Our Everyday Lives Episode 18: Shifting Perspectives; Being Open to 3 Sides Of Every Coin : Social Media:  Website - https://www.lovealwaysself.com/ Linktree - https://linktr.ee/lovealwaysself Have a topic you'd like us to discuss? Email Us!: contact@lovealwaysself.com  : #love #joy #connection #generosity #giftofgiving #give #volunteer #transactionalgiving #opentoreceive #heartcentered #giftoftime #giftofservice #giving #spiritual #qualitytime #donate #gratitude #community #giveback #thoseinneed #lovealwaysself #lovealwaysselfpodcast

Pamela Hawley is a pioneer in modern ways to optimize philanthropy. She's the winner of the Jefferson Award, which is the Nobel Prize in community service, and she was the finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award She is the founder and CEO of UniversalGiving, an award-winning nonprofit that helps people give and volunteer worldwide. She is also the co-founder of VolunteerMatch. This organization has matched more than four million volunteers with nonprofits. During her time there, she generated more than one million dollars in revenue. Pamela has a political science degree from Duke University and a master's in international communications from the Annenburg school of communications. Great episode with Pamela on Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People Podcast!

On Todays Episode of Clicks and Bricks Podcast, Ken Interviews Meg Garavaglia From Woven Legal. Ken and Meg Discuss Paralegal Staffing in Law Offices. ❕❕❕Special Offer For the Clicks and Bricks Audience from Woven Legal: 50% off our fulfillment fee (a $250 savings) for a new contract signed by Dec. 31st, 2022 Contact Woven Legal and Tell Them You heard Meg on Clicks and Bricks Podcast About Meg: Meg is the owner of Woven Legal, a virtual legal staffing company based in Atlanta, GA. She has 15+ years of professional experience representing service-based solutions for attorneys and law firms nationwide. Building and retaining her clients' trust has been the foundation for her success - helping law firms secure top talent and adopt proven processes and benchmark technologies. Meg is a 1993 graduate of Kutztown University's Communication Design program. In 1997 after starting a family with her husband, Chris, Meg committed her time and attention to raising their 2 boys, Drew & Matt, before returning to the workforce in 2005, where she earned sales awards and promotions to sales trainer roles. Meg was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award in 2017 for work done for Metro Atlanta's veteran population through Soldier's Angels and continues finding opportunities to serve her community through Volunteer Match. In her downtime, Meg and Chris enjoy spending time with their sons (Drew, 25 & Matt, 23), hiking, and playing Wordle! They attend St. Clare's Catholic Church in Acworth, GA. Contact Woven Legal: wovenlegal.com Contact Ken: https://inlink.com/ken hello@kencox.com Text: (314) 370-2871 #GetToWork Follow Us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clicksandbrickspodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clicksandbrickspodcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ClicksBricksPodcast Website: https://clickandbrickspodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Todays Episode of Clicks and Bricks Podcast, Ken Interviews Meg Garavaglia From Woven Legal. Ken and Meg Discuss Paralegal Staffing in Law Offices. ❕❕❕Special Offer For the Clicks and Bricks Audience from Woven Legal: 50% off our fulfillment fee (a $250 savings) for a new contract signed by Dec. 31st, 2022 Contact Woven Legal and Tell Them You heard Meg on Clicks and Bricks Podcast About Meg: Meg is the owner of Woven Legal, a virtual legal staffing company based in Atlanta, GA. She has 15+ years of professional experience representing service-based solutions for attorneys and law firms nationwide. Building and retaining her clients' trust has been the foundation for her success - helping law firms secure top talent and adopt proven processes and benchmark technologies. Meg is a 1993 graduate of Kutztown University's Communication Design program. In 1997 after starting a family with her husband, Chris, Meg committed her time and attention to raising their 2 boys, Drew & Matt, before returning to the workforce in 2005, where she earned sales awards and promotions to sales trainer roles. Meg was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award in 2017 for work done for Metro Atlanta's veteran population through Soldier's Angels and continues finding opportunities to serve her community through Volunteer Match. In her downtime, Meg and Chris enjoy spending time with their sons (Drew, 25 & Matt, 23), hiking, and playing Wordle! They attend St. Clare's Catholic Church in Acworth, GA. Contact Woven Legal: wovenlegal.com Contact Ken: https://inlink.com/ken hello@kencox.com Text: (314) 370-2871 #GetToWork Follow Us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clicksandbrickspodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clicksandbrickspodcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ClicksBricksPodcast Website: https://clickandbrickspodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weekly news for the nonprofit sector.     Nonprofits & NGOs Prepare As The Russia Ukraine Standoff Becomes Dire As the situation in Ukraine deteriorates, the nonprofit organization Project Dynamo has announced it is preparing for the potential emergency evacuation of Americans from Ukraine. The organization, initially formed to aid in the evacuation from Afghanistan, is just one of many civil society and NGO organization focused on preparing for the fallout of a potential war. The Russian military has approximately 140,000 troops surrounding Ukraine on all but its western border. On Friday, the U.S. government advised all American citizens to leave the country within 48 hours. While official intelligence publicly referenced by the U.S. notes that an invasion is not certain, that intelligence has assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has assembled the necessary military force to launch an attack should he chose to do so. Read more ➝   The Great U.S. Volunteer Shortage & CEO Transition at VolunteerMatch Greg Baldwin, CEO and President of VolunteerMatch, says that the number of open nonprofit volunteer opening positions needed has increased to approximately 10.5 million at the beginning of 2022. This represents a jump of nearly 2 million open positions since before the pandemic, which saw a need for 8.5 million volunteers. Macro trends related to the shifting impact of the pandemic have resulted in a shortage of volunteers felt by nonprofits large and small across the country. Baldwin joins Whole Whale (the publisher of this newsletter) CEO George Weiner to discuss this volunteer shortage as well as VolunteerMatch's process for finding a replacement CEO after his scheduled departure. Read more ➝     Summary:  Eminem takes a knee during the Super Bowl halftime show  | wbur.org How the National Butterfly Center Became the Center of Online Lies |  nytimes.com For the first time in its history, Facebook is in decline. Has the tech giant begun to crumble? | the Guardian Salary competition adds to staffing challenges for nonprofits | MiBiz: West Michigan Business News

Weekly news for the nonprofit sector.     Nonprofits & NGOs Prepare As The Russia Ukraine Standoff Becomes Dire As the situation in Ukraine deteriorates, the nonprofit organization Project Dynamo has announced it is preparing for the potential emergency evacuation of Americans from Ukraine. The organization, initially formed to aid in the evacuation from Afghanistan, is just one of many civil society and NGO organization focused on preparing for the fallout of a potential war. The Russian military has approximately 140,000 troops surrounding Ukraine on all but its western border. On Friday, the U.S. government advised all American citizens to leave the country within 48 hours. While official intelligence publicly referenced by the U.S. notes that an invasion is not certain, that intelligence has assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has assembled the necessary military force to launch an attack should he chose to do so. Read more ➝   The Great U.S. Volunteer Shortage & CEO Transition at VolunteerMatch Greg Baldwin, CEO and President of VolunteerMatch, says that the number of open nonprofit volunteer opening positions needed has increased to approximately 10.5 million at the beginning of 2022. This represents a jump of nearly 2 million open positions since before the pandemic, which saw a need for 8.5 million volunteers. Macro trends related to the shifting impact of the pandemic have resulted in a shortage of volunteers felt by nonprofits large and small across the country. Baldwin joins Whole Whale (the publisher of this newsletter) CEO George Weiner to discuss this volunteer shortage as well as VolunteerMatch's process for finding a replacement CEO after his scheduled departure. Read more ➝     Summary:  Eminem takes a knee during the Super Bowl halftime show  | wbur.org How the National Butterfly Center Became the Center of Online Lies |  nytimes.com For the first time in its history, Facebook is in decline. Has the tech giant begun to crumble? | the Guardian Salary competition adds to staffing challenges for nonprofits | MiBiz: West Michigan Business News

Greg Baldwin CEO and President talks about the current needs for volunteers across the VolunteerMatch network. What are the macro factors causing the return to normal volunteering behaviors and what can nonprofits do? Greg also discusses the CEO transition and how the organization is approaching finding his replacement. "Volunteer Demand has rebounded to over 10M but volunteers are in shortage"   VolunteerMatch is the most effective way to recruit highly qualified volunteers for your nonprofit. We match you with people who are passionate about and committed to your cause, and who can help when and where you need them. And because volunteers are often donors as well, we make it easy for them to contribute their time and money. The Topline numbers from VolunteerMatch 8.5 Million were needed pre-COVID 4.35 Million were needed in 2021 Jan The number is now 10.5 Million open opportunities starting 2022     About Greg Baldwin Greg Baldwin is the CEO at VolunteerMatch. He joined what is now VolunteerMatch in the spring of 1998 as its Chief Imagination Officer to finish hot-wiring the Internet to help everybody find a great place to volunteer. Today, VolunteerMatch is the web's largest volunteer engagement network strengthening communities and organizations across the country by making it easier for good people and good causes to connect. Greg completed his undergraduate studies at Brown University in 1990 with a degree in Public Policy. He is a life-long volunteer and currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife Kathryn and kids Ellie and Matt.

Tobi Johnson, President & Founder of VolunteerPro, and Jennifer Bennett, Director , Education & Training at VolunteerMatch talk about the Season 3 themes and their thoughts on how leaders of volunteers are continuing to adapt and evolve to engaging volunteers during the ongoing pandemic. Season 3 of the Time + Talent Podcast is finally here! Tobi and Jennifer are back to share exciting and inspirational stories from practitioners in the field of volunteer management. We didn't think we'd still be talking about COVID and a global pandemic in 2022, but we are, and this season highlights the organizations that are not just surviving, but thriving as they learn to engage volunteers in this new environment. We don't like to say pandemic silver linings - but we are excited to share stories from leaders of volunteers that used the pandemic as an opportunity to get creative, dig deeper into their organization's mission, and tap into the time and talent of all kinds of volunteers - including the National Guard! This season wouldn't have been possible without our guests sharing their time and talent and we want to thank each and every one of them for joining us on this journey. We hope you enjoy Season 3 - please take a moment to subscribe, rate, and review. And if you, or someone you know, has an inspirational story about volunteer engagement we want to hear about it! Submit your story on the Be a Guest page on or website -https://www.timeandtalentpod.com/ - and we may feature you in Season 4. For More: To see how far we've come, check out the Time + Talent Podcast Season 1, Episode 101, and Season 2, Episode 201. Host Bios: Tobi JohnsonPresident & FounderTobi Johnson & Associates | VolunteerPro Time + Talent co-host Tobi Johnson is an internationally sought after expert, consultant, and master trainer in volunteer engagement. She is known for her modern thought leadership, highly practical evidence-based strategies, and innovative, “big hat” thinking around engaging, supporting, and acknowledging the work of volunteers. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Tobi is a graduate of the University of Washington and has a Masters degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She now lives in East Tennessee with her husband and feline office assistant, Bailey. Jennifer Bennett Director, Education & Training VolunteerMatch  Time + Talent co-host Jennifer Bennett believes that the most creative volunteer engagement happens on top of a strong foundation, and that all volunteers should be engaged in meaningful work. She relies on her current role leading and engaging volunteers to ensure that the thought-leadership, trainings, and resources she designs meet the needs of today's volunteer engagement professionals. Jennifer grew up, and still lives, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, VA.

Choosing a charity or non-profit to support can feel overwhelming for a lot of reasons. This week we discuss how to narrow down your philanthropic focus, vet charities, and support the causes your passionate about. Support us: Visit our IG Visit our website Links! The Salvation Army's History of Anti-LGBT Discrimination The Salvation Army Wants You to Believe You've Changed 7 LGBTQ+ Organizations to Support Instead of the Salvation Army Five Steps to Informed Giving “Would you like to round up?” Guidestar.org Charitynavigator.org Charitywatch.org Givewell.org Volunteermatch.org Catchafire.org

The Problem: In my last year in a high school classroom, I taught 150 students each day. That was 150 daily interactions with kids whom I loved. I also interacted daily with a slew of treasured colleagues. And that's the problem with retirement. All of those favorable interactions are wiped out. When teachers retire it's imperative that they rebuild this shattered sense of belonging. And this dear listener is where Bronwyn Workman makes a dramatic appearance. Bronwyn retired from education in 2005. Over the past 16 years, she's done a remarkable job building a sense of community. I love this interview. She talks about how she did it and how it's benefitted her. Make sure to check out the What you can do About it Section. I'll bullet point Bronwyn's solutions and offer some helpful links. In the meantime, sit back and listen to this inspirational woman and speculate how you can emulate what she's done. What you can do About it: Blue Zones are small pockets of longevity situated in diverse places on the globe. Those who reside in these pockets have a vastly better chance to live to 100. Those who study Blue Zones point to a resident's sense of belonging as essential to their longevity. Perhaps, a retired educator can replace the sense of belonging that they used to get each day at school with volunteering. It's a path absolutely worth exploring. Here's what Bronwyn Workman would suggest: Wait for the right time to explore volunteering. Investigate opportunities with your passions and interests. Be open minded about opportunities. Evaluate each opportunity. Here's a link to Volunteer Match. Don't be afraid to create your own thing. Don't feel obligated. Practice mindfulness. Here's a link to Headspace. After you retire, It's up to you to rebuild a sense of belonging. Consider volunteering. Sure you'll help others, but you just may make it to 100-years-old because you did it.

Welcome to the sixth episode of Activist H!, where today we will be opening up the Activist ToolKit to share VolunteerMatch with you - a platform for connecting organizations with volunteers! It's an amazing website that does wonders for up and coming organizations. It's also a great place to go if you're looking for a way to get involved with the issues you care about! You can check out their website by visiting volunteermatch.org. The service is free for nonprofit organizations, though paid versions exist to make managing volunteers easier if you have many!

For season one, episode four, Rob talks to Jerome Tennille from the USA. Jerome and Rob met in 2017 at a workshop about career progression for leaders of volunteer engagement. Jerome discussed his career journey and challenges us all to think differently about what career success might look like. Jerome Tennille has dedicated his life's work to creating a more positive culture of volunteering. He currently works on the Social Impact team at Marriott International where he manages the corporate employee volunteer program for Marriott's global team. He's also an appointed Commissioner for the Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism for the state of Maryland. Before that, he managed volunteer services for a national 501c3 nonprofit supporting families of fallen veterans. Jerome's work has been published by VolunteerMatch, Nonprofit Information, Impakter, and Business2Community. Through his independent consulting firm, Architecting Social Good, Jerome has collaborated with numerous organizations, including Habitat for Humanity International, America's Service Commissions, Volunteer Fairfax, Serve Ohio, and Peace Through Action USA. Jerome holds a Masters of Sustainability Leadership from Arizona State University and is designated Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Music by Zen_Man from Pixabay

Today's guest is Lila Preston, Head of the Growth Equity Strategy for Generation Investment Management.Lila joined Generation in 2004 and serves as Head of the Growth Equity Strategy. Prior to joining Generation, Lila was a Director in Development & Finance at VolunteerMatch and a Fulbright Fellow in Chile, where she worked on forestry and conservation projects. Lila currently serves as a Board Director at Nature's Fynd as well as a Board Observer at Toast and CiBO Technologies. In addition, she is a member of the Social Mission Board at Seventh Generation, is on the Board of Advisors at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Lila received a BA in English Language and Literature from Stanford University and an MBA from London Business School.I was looking forward to sitting down with Lila and learning more about Generation Investment Management. In this episode, Lila walks me through Generation's mission, her climate journey, and how Generation evaluates companies to invest in. We also have a lively discussion about ESG investing, greenwashing, and the ethics of partnering with fossil fuel companies as we head towards a clean future. Lila is a great guest, and this episode is a must-listen.Enjoy the show!You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at info@myclimatejourney.co, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded July 23rd, 2021For more information about Generation Investment Management: https://www.generationim.com/For more information about this episode, visit: https://myclimatejourney.co/episodes/lila-preston

Helping your community is a part of being healthy yourself. In this episode, learn about the importance of volunteering, how to help your community, ways you can contribute and make a difference, and I'll also be getting into ways high schoolers like me can get creative with their community service hours, and make them stand out. For example, I started my own community service project while feeling helpless in quarantine. We'll get into all that and more! Volunteer Match (find Volunteer programs anywhere): https://www.volunteermatch.org/ https://linktr.ee/Healthful_podcast

Volunteering our time is a great way to give back to our community, but how do we involve our kids and help them see the value? Brandy shares her personal experiences and gives us great information on making service a priority and being a starfish thrower in all kinds of ways. Contact us: parents@thefamilyplaceutah.org Find us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/jendalyTFP https://www.facebook.com/SaraHendricksTFPU Check out these resources: Just Serve: https://www.justserve.org/ Volunteer Match: https://www.volunteermatch.org/ All for Good: https://www.allforgood.org/ Engage (All for Good's new website): https://engage.pointsoflight.org/ Idea List: https://www.idealist.org/en/ Do Something (for teens): https://www.dosomething.org/us --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theparentsplace/message

Love does not just happen in romantic partnerships, in fact its in many aspects of our lives. This Valentines Day, I encourage you to discover and honor the love that is in your life regardless, if you are in a romantic partnership. We can use this day to send love to those who may need it the most. Check out VolunteerMatch.org organization has opportunities to volunteer remotely. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shawn670/support

RewindMindNode's Newly-Editable Outline View Adds a Terrific New Dimension to the Mind Mapping App's Mac VersionDoodle Jump 2 Review: A Modern Take on a ClassicApple Partners with VolunteerMatch to Feature Local Volunteer Opportunities in Apple MapsApple Podcasts Adds Spotlight Editorial FeatureApple Spotlights iPhone 12 PhotographyClub MacStories MacStories WeeklyA collection of clipboard manager appsA shortcut for exporting links from CraftA mini-review of the OWC Thunderbolt HubFederico Finds a way to add tasks to Apple's Reminders app from his Amazon EchoAppStoriesEpisode 201 – Automating Your HomeUnwindFederico's Pick:drivers license by JxdnJxdnOriginal version of drivers license by Olivia RodrigoJohn's Pick:Mr. Mayor on NBCFollow us on TwitterFederico ViticciJohn VoorheesFollow us on InstagramFederico ViticciJohn Voorhees

Our guest Greg Baldwin, CEO of VolunteerMatch discusses the historical drop in volunteering in 2020. Overnight listings and attendance to in-person volunteering events fell off a cliff as stay-at-home orders rolled across the country in March. VolunteerMatch has released Quarterly updates on the state of US volunteering that we discuss.  There were some spikes in virtual volunteering but as Greg puts it "You can't build a house over ZOOM". There are many reasons to be optimistic for a V-shaped recovery as vaccines roll out and a potential surge of people ready, willing, and able are more motivated than ever to volunteer in the US.     

-Is it 2021 yet?-Almost. Which is why we're talking New Year's resolutions and how they can help the planet. Some swear by this tradition of reinventing oneself every year, while others pretend year after year to care about getting fit, learning to golf, or quitting coffee, while others roll their eyes and wait for their birthday to quietly judge themselves based on the passage of time and society's definition of success.What if...  we made resolutions that really weren't about us? What if we made resolutions about the planet? Then, what if the whole world did that? Okay, that might not happen this year, and we're not trying to manifest another pandemic to reduce emissions, but what can we learn from 2020 and what do we want to leave behind?There is a lot to cover, but the focus of this episode is small, actionable steps toward real change. And starting NOW.We're here for it. So please, share your resolutions and your reflections with us!Email us at greenish@gobealive.com or message us on Instagram or Twitter @greenish.podcast Links from today's episode:Forbes Article on the top fossil fuel funding banksRainforest Action Network 2020 list of Fossil Fuel Funding Banks Duolingo Podcast  - your language learning goals. Not necessarily green, but admirable.GoEco - travel volunteer opportunities for a post-pandemic world. REI DEI Accountability 2021 - Example of potential consumer and employee impact on brands. Another reason to vote with your dollar. REI Opt to Act - 52 Week ChallengeLitterati - Join us in picking up and logging itBrands that can help you reduce waste in your routine - Blueland for cleaning supplies in tabletsPackage Free Shop for Bar Shampoo + ConditionerWell Earth Goods for Toothpaste Tablets and ByHumanKind for a refillable, subscribable deodorant that worksFinally, check out Litterless.com for a  Zero-Waste Grocery GuidePaperKarma - Reduce your junk mail and your carbon footprint Links for Giving - If volunteering is one of your resolutions, VolunteerMatch.com can help you align your skills, values, passions, and your availability.Give when you shop by connecting your Kroger Card to a nonprofit using Kroger Community RewardsWhen you need to shop, shop using Good DeedsIf you use Amazon, make sure you're using Smile.Amazon.com and contributing to a cause you care about. May we recommend Project Drawdown?

In Collaboration With Iconic Rock Band Collective Soul and VolunteerMatch, CUMULUS MEDIA Unveils PROJECT SHINE Nationwide Appeal to Volunteerism Launches Today Across 422 U.S. Radio Stations and Westwood One Network CUMULUS MEDIA today announces the launch of PROJECT SHINE, a cross-platform charitable initiative, serving as a nationwide call to local volunteerism through partner VolunteerMatch, the world's largest volunteer engagement network. PROJECT SHINE will be promoted on the company's 422 radio stations and websites across 87 U.S. markets and through CUMULUS MEDIA's Westwood One, the largest audio network in the U.S., with creative promos framed by a new version of iconic rock band Collective Soul's hit “Shine”, re-recorded exclusively for PROJECT SHINE. PROJECT SHINE encourages Cumulus' hundreds of millions of listeners to visit local station websites to instantly connect with VolunteerMatch's powerful search engine and database and find local volunteer opportunities. The campaign was produced by Cumulus, with support from production company Benztown and McVay Media. PROJECT SHINE is an evergreen campaign that will inspire local acts of service and human connection in a world that has seen its share of challenges. VolunteerMatch serves over 130,000 participating nonprofits, 150 network partners, and 1.3 million annual website visitors. There are currently 3.2 million volunteers needed by non-profits organizations on VolunteerMatch -- with over 700,000 of those openings for virtual volunteers, and many postings for safely-distanced activities. Brian Philips, EVP, Content & Audience, CUMULUS MEDIA, said: “PROJECT SHINE serves as a conduit for human connection. We make it easy for good people to connect with great causes through VolunteerMatch. In every town, in every corner of America, some darkness subsides, and a new ray of light appears. Through service, we help ourselves and the whole world is better for it.” Philips noted: “We thank our friend Ed Roland and Collective Soul, whose timeless song “Shine” was the inspiration for this project. Ed's exciting new version elevates PROJECT SHINE and brings fresh light to a nation in need.” Ed Roland, Founder and Lead Vocalist, Collective Soul, commented: “When I was 12 years old, my father told me that one day, there will be no city lines, no county lines, no state lines, or even country lines – there will only be humankind. VolunteerMatch is a program that connects all of us to work together and make a positive impact for the greater good. I want to thank Brian Philips and everyone at Cumulus for allowing us to be a part of PROJECT SHINE. Together we can make a difference.“ Laura Plato, Chief Solutions Officer, VolunteerMatch, remarked: “VolunteerMatch is honored to join forces with CUMULUS MEDIA to help everyone find a way to lend a hand in their local community -- and virtually across America – through PROJECT SHINE. We're huge believers in the power of both volunteer service and music to uplift, inspire, and heal. And we're excited to see volunteers unite in support of our nation's nonprofits.” Visit: https://www.cumulusmedia.com/shine/ to connect to a nonprofit you love through PROJECT SHINE

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   My guests on this episode of Talking Taiwan are Gary Reloj and Bonnie Chan, co-founders of the PPE Relief Initiative (PRI). I had Gary on as a guest previously in episode 79, only a couple of months into the COVID-19 pandemic. He talked about his own personal battle with COVID and the PPE Relief Initiative’s crowdfunding campaign. Since then, the PPE Relief Initiative has surpassed its goal of raising $30,000, and has also been selected by GoFundMe to be a featured campaign on their COVID page.   When asked about the mistakes they’ve made and lessons they learned, Gary responded that he’s not afraid of failure and embraces it as long as there’s something that can be learned from it.  Gary and Bonnie talked how they’ve tweaked things since phase one of the crowdfunding campaign and shared some of the work productivity tools that PRI uses. Bonnie offered some general advice for people interested in doing crowdfunding for a cause. The two also shared a lot of exciting updates.   Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:   What’s happened with the PPE Relief Initiative (PRI) since we first interviewed Gary about it Bonnie’s role in creating a strong brand identity for the PPE Relief Initiative How the PPE Relief Initiative got selected by GoFundMe to be a featured campaign and what it means for the campaign The PPE Relief Initiative’s next fundraising goal is $15,000 to support an additional 1,000 healthcare workers How the PPE Relief Initiative has grown and recruited new volunteers How the support that the PPE Relief Initiative is not only supplying healthcare workers with PPE but giving them emotional and moral support Some of the biggest challenges they faced in trying to reach their initial fundraising goal of $30,000 The failures and lessons learned during phase one of the PPE Relief Initiative’s crowdfunding campaign How some of the healthcare workers that PPE Relief Initiative has worked with who have had to resort to wearing garbage bags, bed covers, and men’s old clothing as PPE How important it is to have the right team of people working together to achieve goals together What they did when contributions to the GoFundMe Campaign plateaued and stalled How they tell and capture the stories of healthcare workers through their “Stories from the Frontlines” videos The note that went viral - written by KP Mendoza, a healthcare worker featured in one of PRI's "Stories from the Frontlines" videos The shift from first focusing more on individual donors, to phase two in which they are planning to focus more on partnerships with e.g. community organizations, businesses, and student groups Why Gary embraces failure How PPE Relief Initiative learned from the mistakes it made during its first phase and has improved its processes The work productivity tools that PPE Relief Initiative uses The importance of organization and setting up an infrastructure The goals of the second phase of PPE Relief Initiative’s Go Fund Me campaign The difference between GoFundMe and GoFundMe Charity The Promise Society, fiscal sponsor of the PPE Relief Initiative General advice for anyone interested in running a crowdfunding campaign The importance of email campaigns and data to PRI’s fundraising campaign PPE Relief Initiative’s plans to partner with a local politician to hold a virtual roundtable with healthcare workers giving testimony on their experiences PRI’s plans to make an impact on policy regarding healthcare worker protection   Related Links:   PPE Relief Initiative’s (PRI) website: https://pperelief.org/   PRI’s social media accounts: PRI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ppe.relief/   PRI’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ppe.relief.initiative/   PRI’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ppe-relief-initiative/   PPE Relief Initiative’s Go Fund Me crowdfunding campaign: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/every-superhero-needs-armor-ppe-relief-for-healthcare-workers-fighting-covid-19   PPE Relief Initiative’s volunteer page: https://pperelief.org/join-our-team/   Healthcare workers (in New York and New Jersey) who’d like to apply for PPE can STILL do so here: https://pperelief.org/apply   Belinda and Mary (Mother & Daughter share their stories) with PRI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNlmUL6iAMo   The note from healthcare worker KP Mendoza that went viral: https://helphopehonor.org/thank-you-to-our-heroes/kp-mendoza---do-not-call-me-a-hero-listen-to-an-icu-nurses-plea-for-fighting-the-coronavirus.html   PPE Relief Initiative’s YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/channel/UC_ncFI3RKutGY1D6QQL8cow     Recommended websites to recruit volunteers from:   Idealist: https://www.idealist.org/en/   Volunteer Match: https://www.volunteermatch.org/     Productivity tools that PPE Relief Initiative uses:   Workplace: https://www.workplace.com/   Asana: https://asana.com/   Google Drive:  https://www.google.com/intl/en_in/drive/   The Promise Society:  http://www.thepromisesociety.org/

Zaiba and Uzma discuss the final stage of Kubler Ross’grief: Acceptance today. They skipped over bargaining for religious reasons!As Muslims, “acceptance” doesn’t mean lie down and relax. The work is NOT DONE! There’s much to do to keep the momentum going and to undo all the damage that’s been done to our nation in the last 4 years, and particularly to Muslim Americans. Local and state elections matter because of school curricula, zoning laws that determine when and if masajid go up, law enforcement, where our tax dollars go directly, and so much more! There are some easy things we can do, and even work that our kids can do to get involved or to stay involved in the political process and protect democracy and justice. Never underestimate the power of what ya’ll can do, mamas! Links:1) All eyes on GA: Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/2) Purchase this workbook on anxiety if your child has it--or even if YOU do! What to Do When You Worry Too Much: https://www.amazon.com/What-When-Worry-Much-What/dp/1591473144 3) What to Do After the Election: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/health/election-getting-involved-actions-wellness/index.html 4) Find my Congressperson: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative and https://www.senate.gov/senators/index.htm 5) Points of Light to get matched up with volunteer opportunities: https://www.pointsoflight.org/our-mission/6) Find other volunteer opportunities based on your interest in Volunteer Match: https://www.volunteermatch.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAk53-BRD0ARIsAJuNhpsPDNaDVM6wY7Moi6qBdq0ZBc8GMSSL85E2dnF33nsQBxRa8pCqfMUaApSFEALw_wcB 7) Better Arguments Project: https://betterarguments.org/ 8) Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/9) Facebook: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group10) IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast11) Twitter: @MWMpodcasting

“We work with the agencies who are culture driven, meaning that, yes, we can make more money, but we'd rather make a little less money and put culture first, because we understand that it's a marathon, right? Like, we understand that if our employees are happy, it's going to make our situation a lot better.” Kaleem Clarkson This week on the Control the Room Podcast, I’m excited to speak with Kaleem Clarkson, COO and Co-founder of Blend Me, Inc., a consulting firm that cultivates remote employee experiences from onboarding through off-boarding. He has a particular interest in culture-driven organizations. Kaleem is also the COO of RemotelyOne, a members-only community on a mission to end remote work isolation by connecting and building relationships between location-independent professionals. Kaleem and I speak about the different types of remote work, why some companies are struggling to transition to remote work, and why it’s so important for a job posting to accurately represent your organization’s culture. Listen in to find out how Kaleem’s experience as a member of a college metal band led to his career as an employee experience expert.   Show Highlights [2:43] Blind Melon, Slick Rick, & Warped Tour [13:43] The Teleworks Big Three [20:16] The commonality between organizations struggling to work remotely [28:56] Company culture clubs [34:48] Handling employee anxieties during COVID-19 layoffs   Links | Resources Blend Me, Inc. RemotelyOne Kaleem on LinkedIn   About the Guest Kaleem Clarkson is an employee experience expert and remote work advocate helping organizations build intentional employee lifecycles that begin at initial job postings and end after off-boarding. He is the COO and Co-founder of Blend Me, Inc. a remote employee experience consultancy. He is also the COO of RemotelyOne, a members-only community for location-independent professionals. About Voltage Control Voltage Control is a facilitation agency that helps teams work better together with custom-designed meetings and workshops, both in-person and virtual. Our master facilitators offer trusted guidance and custom coaching to companies who want to transform ineffective meetings, reignite stalled projects, and cut through assumptions. Based in Austin, Voltage Control designs and leads public and private workshops that range from small meetings to large conference-style gatherings.  Share An Episode of Control The Room Apple Podcasts Spotify Android Stitcher Engage Control The Room Voltage Control on the Web Contact Voltage Control   Intro: Welcome to the Control the Room Podcast, a series devoted to the exploration of meeting culture and uncovering cures for the common meeting. Some meetings have tight control, and others are loose. To control the room means achieving outcomes while striking a balance between imposing and removing structure, asserting and distributing power, leaning in and leaning out, all in the service of having a truly magical meeting. Douglas: Today I’m with Kaleem Clarkson, co-founder and chief operating officer of Blend Me, Inc. He is a remote-employee-experience professional, and developing RemotelyOne, a community for location-independent professionals. Welcome to the show, Kaleem. Kaleem: Douglas, thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I hear this crowd applause in the background. Let’s get that in post-production. I love it. Douglas: Awesome. So, Kaleem, I'm really curious to hear how an employee-experience professional gets their start. How do you find your way on this path?  Kaleem: That's a good question. I probably should have this ready by now. But I guess I'll start my origin story. I guess this is my origin story. So born and raised in Bangor, Maine. I’m going way back. Bangor, Maine, represent. I always love to throw it out. My home state, I love it. But I ended up going to college in Massachusetts. Got a chance to play at Western State University. Got a chance to play some college football there. And during that time, we all had a very good time. Let's put it that way. I enjoy having beverages with people, making sure that everyone else is having a good time, and we ended up throwing a good amount of gatherings, should you say, in college. And started getting into a metal band, believe it or not. Just got into a metal band and started rocking out. Love the stage. Love that whole feel to it. And that led me to starting a nonprofit organization called Concerts for Charity, which I think we started in ’99. And we started putting on different concerts with different charities across New England. We got our 513(c) status and started donating to different charities, and we got to work with a lot of cool bands in different areas—you know, a lot of jam bands, a lot of hard-rock bands. We worked with—jeez, I'm trying to think of some bands that we booked in the past. I think we booked Blind Melon on their comeback tour, which was pretty cool. Chk, Chk, Chk out in Sacramento, I remember back in the day. I think we booked Slick Rick, a rapper. If you don't know, some of the old-school folks. Douglas: Colleague of Doug E. Fresh, if I'm not mistaken.  Kaleem: Yeah. Yeah. You know, what's funny is we went and picked him up at the airport or whatever, and he gets in the car, and total British accent. You know? So, you don't think about that, like, dude's been living in England all these years. And gets in, and he’s like, “Hello.” Horrible British accent, by the way. That’s horrible.  But anyway, yeah. So I got a chance doing that, and that was really kind of my first experience with dealing with virtual volunteers. VolunteerMatch at the time, we ended up connecting with the Warped Tour, and were able to register people to vote through a group called HeadCount as well. Anyway, it was great. It was a cool experience. We got to do a documentary that featured Trey Anastasio from Phish, Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead, and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones—really big artists in the jam-band scene. And we got to debut it at HBO. So it was cool. I was probably only, what, 21 years old, 22 years old? I really got my first taste of putting on events and just kind of sitting back and watching everybody having a good time. And I think that's the common theme, right? Everyone was just having a good time. Everyone has that cup, that Red Solo Cup, and that really cheap beer. But everyone's having a good time, generally.  And yeah, so I kind of move on. Moved to Atlanta, my partner and I, and get a job at Kennesaw State University at Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. And that's like a faculty-development center. They basically teach faculty how to teach. I don’t know if you knew that, you know, a lot of people may not know this, but college professors, they graduate with a PhD, and they put right in the classroom, so they don't go through any teaching training or anything like that, a lot of them. So, yeah, yeah, it was cool. I got to put on a lot of international conferences there. Again, I'm putting on parties again, right, except in a different setting. That was the kind of interesting, or educational piece to me. I didn't realize faculty also enjoy having a good time, and they do.  So, yeah, all these professional conferences, got a chance to put some of those on, and really kind of just didn't even realize that—I was there for 10 or 12 years. And I would have to say in 2012, I believe, during my work at Kennesaw, I got heavily involved with the Drupal community, and Drupal’s an open-source website-application tool, kind of like WordPress, build websites with it. So kind of got involved with that community. And again, that was another experience of being with like-minded people. It was outside of my previous experience of concerts and the entertainment industry, and then getting in the higher ed around faculty in the higher ed industry. Well, now I'm around other computer digital marketers and digital professionals, you know, developers. And yeah, I got heavily involved with Drupal and started building websites, and I kind of became a Drupal developer. And last year, or probably a year and a half ago, yeah, a year, I left higher ed and decided to get involved with a company called Oomph as a UX engineer and started doing some front-end development work. But the cool thing about Drupal and open source is, again, the networks of people that you meet. And during that time, it was 2012, that I was at a conference in Denver, DrupalCon Denver, and I heard a talk by, his name is Matt Westgate from a company called Lullabot. They’re a big development firm. I think they did the Grammy’s website and some other big ones. But anyway, yeah, I went to that talk, and he was talking about how to run a virtual organization. And he talked about why they weren't using the word remote and why they were using the word distributed and how those words, what those words actually could mean to people. And I recall him saying remote felt like you were distant from something. Douglas: Mm-hmm. Kaleem: You were away from a group of people. So it was fascinating. Like, at that time, 2012, it seems like 100 years ago, but there weren't very many people talking about how to work remotely. So I came home, and my partner, she had graduated two years before that, in 2010, with her master's degree from Yukon in organizational development. And she actually wrote her master's paper thesis on virtual volunteerism, because my charity had hooked up with the Warped Tour, and we had virtual volunteers all over the country. So I came home from that, and I was talking with Jen, and I said, “I think we found something. I think we should do our own thing,” and she was all about it.  She was looking for strategic HR jobs, and there weren't very many. People love those jobs, by the way. I’ll use VP of people and CHRO of people; they don’t really leave those jobs, because those jobs, they’re great. Strategic HR’s obviously a much bigger thing now. So we just decided to create Blend Me, Inc. I kind of took care of the marketing, and then she would take care of the engagement, and that's how we kind of came up with the name.  So she worked for a while at a company that was all distributed. And, you know, we kind of did some consulting on the side with some diversity inclusion. And at the end of the day, you realize all of your experiences are kind of what, together, are who you are, and I was very fortunate in that I had been at companies for—I was at Kennesaw for a very long time, 11 years, and it was because we had a great time. And now, if I'm looking back, you asked me the origin question of how you become an employee-experience professional, you just look back and think about all of the situations and the moments you had that were special with a special group where you accomplished big goals. We accomplished a lot of great things there, and a lot of it had to do with the fact that we were all having a really, really good time.  So this year, with COVID, I decided that it's time to go full time, that we no longer had that obstacle of proving to people that remote work, you can be productive. That has always been an obstacle. And honestly, what we decided from day one, 2012, when we're writing our mission statement, we said we did not want to work with agencies that wanted us to prove that remote work was the right answer. We didn't want to get into that type of work, because trying to prove to somebody that, no, you could do this, it’s just not really in our—we want to help people that have already kind of gone over that hump or already believe that it can be successful, because if there's not a belief from the very top all the way through the organization, it doesn't come through as authentic.  So what's interesting is for all these years, there's been a very small market. But I firmly believe, and I think we can all agree, that from March of 2020 on, I don't think any manager—well, in certain industries, I shouldn't say that—but I'm going to say in 90 percent of jobs today that we have behind a desk or in an office, it's going to be very difficult for managers to say that you're not productive.  So, yeah, that's the whole origin story. I think I got it in, like, eight minutes. I got to work on cutting it down a little bit. But, yeah, that's how we kind of came to this point. Douglas: Yeah. And I really want to dig in on the definition of remote versus distributed. And, you know, even virtual is kind of mixed in there as well. I ran into this when I was first venturing out of my own and kind of exploring this kind of concept of fractional CTO. And at first I was calling myself a virtual CTO, and someone asked me—it was a junior developer—they said, “So does that mean it's all in the cloud?” And so I thought maybe this word virtual is not a good fit here.  That story or that notion of misinterpretation of the word virtual is I know exactly what you're getting at around remote versus distributed. And I think that a lot of those notions really held us back. But now that everyone's been thrust into this experience where they've been forced to grapple with it, to wrap their hands around it, they're starting to understand that there are some benefits, and things maybe aren't as bad as they might imagine. Kaleem: Absolutely. And you know what really the difficulty with our industry—and when I say “our,” I just mean remote work or telework industry—is that we don't have an association now. I know Laurel Farrer has just created the Remote Work Association, and I give her kudos to that. And I believe—what’s her name from FlexJobs?—Sara—can’t remember her name, but she started FlexJobs. They created the one-million-person march campaign. There’s been different, like, spin-off campaigns. But one thing that I've learned from higher ed is when you have the National Society for Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics, you know, that's an organization that spits out all the knowledge. When you have SHRM—Society for Human Resource Management—or you have these major-field associations, there is research. There's guidance. There are definitions. There are thought leaders.  And for me and for us when we were trying to talk to clients about the different types of “remote” work, we just always got stuck. Me, having that thought of, well, let's find the history, and realizing that, oh, okay, well, outside of the U.S., a lot of countries use the term telework. The government agencies use the word telework. You know, there's telework guidance guidelines for the government—well, before, but I'm pretty sure that they still exist somewhere. So then we were struggling with that.  So for us, we just figured, okay, we need to come up with our own definitions for when we're working with clients. And we wanted it to show homage to Jack Nilles for coming up with the word telework in 1973. It's kind of a little outdated definition, but we just kind of thought, like, okay, all of these different things of telework, and when we're thinking about the different types, we realized that a lot of the terms are related to a central workplace. So for us, what we decided to do is come up with our own definitions.  Here we go. We call them teleworks big three, right? So we kind of go with, all of it’s telework work, but a distributed company doesn't have a centralized workplace. So when we’re talking with our clients, we’re like, “Oh, yeah. We’re a remote company. We don’t have an office.” We’ll say, “Okay, well, for our purposes, when we’re in our meetings and when we’re talking about the programs that we have, we’re going to refer to your agency as a distributed company because you don't have a centralized workplace.” So employees, they work from wherever they're the most productive and the most comfortable. So that's distributed.  Then we came to the common word of remote. And what drove us to this was back to that 2012 talk of the reason why they don't use the word remote was that it felt like you were away from the centralized workplace. Well, Lullabot was 100 percent distributed. They didn't have a central workplace. But remote employees are away from a centralized workplace. So to me and to us, when we're talking to—not to me, but internally speaking—remote employees are people who work away from the office. So you have a centralized office, there are people that are going into the office every day, but you also have some remote employees. So that's how we kind of label that.  And then our last one is kind of like the telecommuter, telecommute. You know, telecommute employees share their time between a central workplace and working wherever they feel comfortable.  So to us, that's kind of how we've broken it down. I’d be awesome if everybody out there in the whole remote workspace would say, “Hey, this is great. Let's all agree to this.” As far as posting social media, remote work is very popular, the term remote work. And we’re kind of still in that space as well, so we understand. But when we’re internal, I kind of feel like there are definitely differences. Another word that we've seen before to replace kind of remote employee is maybe hybrid. You know, we've heard people talk about a hybrid setup and a hybrid setup means half the people are in a central workplace and half the people are not.  So I do feel like it's really important. I wish, I hope somebody steps up and maybe the Remote Work Association will be that governing body for all of us, where we can all post our research too and be a place. For right now, I guess we'll use the term remote work when we're talking to the rest of the world and just try to clarify the differences between the different types, because there's a major difference in communication facilitation and how you're going to manage your team based on the types of telework that you’re implementing. Douglas: Absolutely. And I would imagine that the tactics would be quite different and maybe even the programs which you might use to address the concerns or the needs.  So when you think about these three, this taxonomy, when you're working with clients, is there one category that you find is most popular? Kaleem: Yeah. There's no doubt that what we call remote or “hybrid” is the most popular, especially like today—you know, so it's kind of a difficult question because it's like, well, are you talking about before or after? So before; let's just talk about before. Before, and I'm saying just so the world knows I'm talking about before COVID-19, okay? Before COVID-19, I would say there were definitely more hybrid companies or remote companies where they had people working in a central workplace and some people working remotely. Telecommuter, it's kind of, you know, I would say a lot of agencies allow their people to work from home a couple of times. So I would say definitely between telecommuting agencies that lets you work from home a couple of times a week and the hybrids were by far the most popular. Douglas: And what do you think folks are learning as they're shifting a bit, as far as their ability to set the frequency at which people were remote? They went from being a part-time, somewhat sometimes kind of thing to being a full-time thing. And I'm sure you've seen them kind of struggle from—because I would imagine some of the practices and approaches they were using, let's say the weaknesses maybe started to show more once they started to lean more heavily into it. So I'm curious what you noticed. As folks have been forced to be more remote, what have they noticed that broke down? What was no longer working for them? And I’m interested from a pattern standpoint. Like, what's been consistent across most of your conversations? What are you hearing that’s like a...kind of a very common issue that's been breaking down for folks as they have become more remote? Kaleem: There's no doubt it's been communication. We kind of used to brand ourselves as an internal-marketing agency, and we still do a lot of internal marketing. But there's no doubt that the communication has been one of the biggest breakdowns, because you weren't set up to do this. One of the things that we talk about when you're designing your employee experience is you have to look at it from the day they look at your job ad to the day that they are departing. And if you don't have a plan—and you know this with meetings—if you don't have an agenda, right, or you don't have a set of goals that are intentional, then your product’s not going to most likely be as good. And then that goes for the same thing with internal communication and doing remote work.  The ones who are struggling are the ones who did not have good internal-marketing practices in place. The organizations who are struggling are the ones who don't trust their employees. The ones who are really having a tough time are the ones who did not take on the responsibility of providing enough resources, enough training, enough documentation to allow you to be distributed now.  So it's really interesting to see the companies who haven't even missed a beat. A lot of the Drupal companies in the web-development space, I'm learning a lot of this, the culture and the practice and stuff, from some of these companies. They’re going on—you know that talk that I’m telling you about is 2012. Another company, Four Kitchens, I mean, they’re another Drupal company. They’ve been distributed now for, jeez, probably eight years. And the company I work for, they've had distributed people.  So the organizations who are not having a challenge at all are the ones who are already prepared to be remote already. So, you know, just to kind of re-emphasize, the ones who did not have their internal-communications strategy set up are the ones who are struggling the most. There's no doubt.  Douglas: Yeah. And so what are the hallmarks of a good internal-marketing program? How do we bolster those communication plans? Kaleem: Whew, yeah, that's a deep one. That's a deep one. So just not just internal marketing. I probably shouldn't say the ones who didn't have the internal-marketing plan, but more along the lines of, you didn't have your whole employee experience planned out, because you can have the best internal marketing set up, but if you haven't explained how your culture works or what your culture’s like, a remote employee can't feel that. So I guess I should say, you know, yes, internal marketing is critical because it's part of communication. That's a huge piece. But in the whole employee experience, there are a lot of steps.  And I would say Gallup, for all you researchers out there, Gallup, we've been quoting Gallup a long time for all of the awesome research they've done on remote work: how many people work remotely? They're one of the best that have been producing it. They kind of came up with this great diagram of what the employee experience is like. I'll just kind of go through those different spaces, because internal marketing kind of fits kind of within these things, right? So their first thing that they talk about is attract. How is your job description written? Does it reflect the type of people that work at your agency? And are you attracting the type of people that you want to be at your agency? So what's your culture statement look like? Do you have a page that talks about your culture? Do you meet every single day? Is it more of a Netflix—work-90-hours-a-week-type culture, or are you more like work whenever you feel comfortable? So that's important that your website’s set up right.  Then, you got to hire. Is your hiring practice matching what you’ve already talked about? Are you interviewing with multiple people on the teams? Are you meeting those people? Do you have a chance to talk to the culture club or people outside of your team instead of just your team?  Then, you have to onboard the people. So now you're only at step three. Onboarding and onboarding alone are very, very thorough. Onboarding program can be up to 18 months. You're talking about, okay, you’ll get 30-, 60-, 90-day reviews, and you have to kind of establish what your goals kind of were. And so onboarding can be long. Then, you have engagement. You got to make sure your employee’s engaged. So you have engagement pieces.  Then, you have to set up and go to performance. You got to make sure your performance evaluations are set up correctly. Make sure that everybody understands what is expected of you to be successful at that organization. And then you have to develop them, right? And then they depart at some point.  So this huge step of, like, seven steps of the whole employee experience, what we’ve realized from remote work is that you have to have trust. Trust is even more critical. Trust is even more critical because, you know, are you an agency that is going to try to have a piece of software that takes snapshots of your individuals every 90 seconds? Or are you a results-only-type agency that cares more about the results and understands that, hey, with school the way it is in some places, people may not be able to work all day. You know, people may have to work at a different time. So trust is critical.  And then, we kind of talked about responsibility earlier. You have to have this—you know, to work remotely, there's a sense of responsibility both on the employee and on the employer. It's a very two-way street.  So, like, this whole, whole thing is kind of what is the pillar of the remote-employee experience, kind of something that we're kind of labeling as “tree”, trust and responsibility. In order for you to get that set up, you just have to start at the beginning, and you have to be intentional of what it is that you're trying to accomplish in each step.  So, I know I didn't answer your question specifically about, like, what are some of the pillars in establishing a good internal-marketing strategy? But, you know, I just kind of wanted to really emphasize that you need to think about this whole thing and not just the internal-marketing side. You have to think about this whole thing, because now we don't have those office places that people can talk to and interact with. You know, now people are distributed behind a computer. So you really do have to think about the whole spectrum.  Douglas: Yeah, that makes sense. What is that journey the employees taking, and how can you meet them at various moments in that journey with intention? Kaleem: Yeah. Yeah. And we're just seeing it right now. The groups who really, really, really care about their employees, that are—what we like to say is we like to work with agencies who are culture driven. And to us, what that means is, listen, we all want to make money. I kind of feel like people trip sometimes when you talk about we care about people. Even nonprofits, people—look, nonprofits make money, people, just so you know this. And I used to tell people about this all the time. A nonprofit, a 513(c) is an IRS designation. All that means is that entity does not have shareholders. Charities make profits. Your business has to make profits to be sustainable. So with all of that said, we work with the agencies who are culture driven, meaning that, yes, we can make more money, but we'd rather maybe only make a little less money and put culture first, because we understand that it's a marathon, right? Like, we understand that if our employees are happy, it's going to just make our situation a lot better. So I think one thing I like to talk about is culture-driven agencies. Douglas: Yeah, I like that, this notion that that's a priority and a focus for the leadership.  So I want to talk a little bit about some tactics. And something that we talked about, or that I noticed, in some of our preshow exchange was around the use of Google Docs and how you can, as a remote tool, use that to focus the team into a common task. So I’m just really curious around what are some things that people can go do today, whether it's, like, use Google Docs in this fashion, if you want to elaborate on that, or it could be any other tactic or approach, but what's something that they can just go literally try out and improve their employee experience?  Kaleem: All right. That's cool. I like that. I like that. So I'm just going to kind of go through each one of them. I think that kind of will make a little bit more sense in my brain.  So the first thing that you can do to attract the type of employees that you want, I learned this, actually, with Oomph, inc. is they created a culture club, which I thought was pretty neat. Get some of your team together, make it voluntary, and say, “Hey, you know what. We want to kind of rewrite what our culture statement is like to better fit who we are today. And we want to kind of better illustrate what it's like to be a part of this team.” I like to use team instead of family. Sometimes families…you know. So, yeah, “What is it like to be a part of this team?” so that you’re attracting the right people.  The other thing, too, is to kind of attract some of those people that you're looking at, get outside of your normal bubble and market yourself, but—we love to say, and now I’m going to kind of talk about engaged—look for people that are going to add to your culture instead of culture fit. So we like to use the word culture ad versus culture fit. Culture’s great, but we all talk about why is culture great aside from the obvious reasons from a personal and emotional level.  Back to business, you want as many different people on your team so that you have different perspectives. Like, if you want to just talk about “Straight cash, homey,” T.O. quote, it's more about having people, more variety of people, on your team so that you have different perspectives. You know, just think of Corn Pops. If Corn Pops would've had maybe more people on their marketing team, they wouldn't have sent out that Corn Pops box years ago, where the only brown Corn Pops person as the janitor. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's a huge gaffe, right?  So that's attract. So that's one thing that you could do. Maybe get a culture club together, try to rewrite your culture statement. With hiring, I would say a good one is—oh, yeah. This is a simple one. This is more probably along the lines of in your wheelhouse of facilitation—do not, by all means, do an interview with—and I'm sorry to say this, Owl Labs, because you have an awesome product, but it feels awkward—don't do an interview with your team at a conference table and the employee remote. I understand—I think Owl Labs cameras are the best. Now I can't get it out of my head. It's an unbelievable product, in my opinion. You know, it kind of jumps around to the person that's speaking, and the camera shows the whole room, and it kind of goes back and forth. It's super cool. Like, I would suggest it for any agency that has multiple board rooms in different places that are meeting and talking. But when you have an interviewee, their first impression, and they're trying to talk with you and you're at a conference-room table with eight of your colleagues side by side, there is already an us-versus-them experience. So it's already a “I'm here, and you're there.” So my suggestion is just get everybody on Zoom or whatever video system you're using. Equality, it's about the same. So put everyone on the same call, the same platform, the same camera. Everywhere the same.  Douglas: Yeah. You know, I’ve said that for years. Like, if we're facilitating and someone's remote, everyone should be remote because we want to level the playing field. Otherwise, it's going to be hard to empathize if we're not all experiencing what everyone else is or what those few individuals are experiencing. And it reminds me of all-hands meetings years and years ago, where people would dial into it. And then I thought to myself, what is it like to actually dial into one of these things? So I dialed into one, and it was—I mean, I couldn’t hear anything. It was [muffled]. And then you’d hear people talking like that, and you’d think, oh, I don’t know. I don’t even know what anyone’s saying. And maybe every now and then you could make out a few things the CEO said but definitely didn't hear any questions or any dialogue. And it's, like, really not great. And so I love that point of, like, let's level the playing field.  Kaleem: Yeah. Yeah.  So then for onboarding, so you're kind of talking about Google Docs and stuff. But for onboarding, simple solution, like, you got to have a place where someone’s going to learn about the organization. Believe it or not, a lot of companies don't have a moment to hear the origin story. Like, we talked about my origin story earlier. And to a lot of people, they may fast forward, but, like, hey, I love to rep Bangor. You know, there's an emotion to why a business got started. You know what I mean? There's something outside. There's a story. And if people don't know that story,  then they may not understand what it is, you know, what are the values that are driving the organization?  So to me, I know onboarding is not the initial, it's not the first interaction with the agency. It's not even where first opinions happen, because it's in the third step. We’re in the third step, right? I mean, we understand that your first impression is definitely the job description. I mean, when people look at the jobs, their first impression is the job description, and then they go on your website. But when you’re onboarding, this is kind of like the first time that employees get to interact or participate. This is the first time that the individual’s participating. So this is a really, really, really crucial moment to let them know what that origin story is and let them know what values are driving your organization.  So one of my first recommendations is just record a video of the founder. I mean, it doesn't even have to be crazy. Just record a video of when the founder got the idea for the business and why the founder started it, and then maybe a little bit about what drives the company. Because right now, COVID-19, if you have to let go of 20 people, or maybe you have a staff of 100 and you got to let go 20 or 30 people, those other people that are there, they go through all sorts of emotions, never mind the people that you let go. But the people that are staying there are going through some stuff. They lost some friends that are no longer employed. There’s a little bit of uncertainty about the future. If all your employees know what drives you even during uncertain times, a lot of these anxieties that make people nervous and get people looking for other options will be erased.  So onboarding is so critical, and I can't give away all my secrets.  Douglas: Sure, sure. Kaleem: So I would say the video is something simple. If you don't have a quick little video that somebody can watch or even, like, a couple paragraphs, how you got started and why you got started and then what drives you. And I know people use the word values all the time. I’m trying to use different words than mission and vision and all that stuff. But what drives your company? Douglas: Yeah. And a couple things I would add there. It’s like so many companies talk about values, and even in the job description, they'll describe things that are aspirational and not necessarily—they're not really conveying the fact that we are that culture that's working 60, 80 hours a week. And if you plan to retain people and you’re doing that, you should be pretty honest about it up front, right?— Kaleem: Right. Yes, be honest. Douglas: —rather than tricking people into coming in. And then the same thing with values, right? If they’re just some words that we adopted because they sound like stuff that, you know, you put on values— Kaleem: Hardworking, go-getter. I mean, like, what is that? Douglas: Yeah. And integrity.  Kaleem: Yeah. Like, what is that? What is that?  Douglas: So if you can make them authentic, then I think people are going to resonate with those. And if they’re shared values that they hold, then it can get people really excited. So I think that's really great.  Kaleem: Yeah, yeah. Douglas: And one thing that I saw a company do here in Austin I've always been a fan of is they created a scavenger hunt, and, essentially, new employees were given this scavenger hunt. And the cool thing about the scavenger hunt was that it included different aspects of the company's history. The way that they got to the answers or found these things, they would have to go talk to other employees in other departments. And so they got— Kaleem: Nice. Douglas: —to know so much about the way the company worked, the way the company— Kaleem: I love this. Douglas: —had evolved over time, and they made friends and connected. And it was very participatory. So I love it because it’s like a facilitator's dream to do those kinds of things. And so if more companies could institute these types of more participatory onboarding practices, I think you’d start to get into what we talk about as facilitator leadership. Kaleem: I love that idea. You’re definitely going to have to send me some—maybe you can remember the company and send me some stuff on that. I think that's a great, great idea.  So then, yeah. So then you have engagement. And there's a million different ideas for engagement. One thing that I love for remote work that—I don't know, maybe this is more in performance—so engagement, you've got to keep your remote workers engaged. So do you host an annual retreat? Do you host a quarterly retreat? You know, how many—do you have—I don't want to say happy hour, but that's no good. The link to—Zoom happy hours have been pretty tiring of late.  Oh, on engaged, this is my tip for engaged. Something very simple. Ask your employees how they're feeling. Like, literally, you could not imagine how many companies just don't send a very simple employee engagement survey out to their employees. Like, all of us consultants in H.R. are like, “Yo, stop talking, Kaleem.” But the fact that you just don’t do that, it’s so easy. Just write, like… And the other thing that I would suggest is if you’re going to use a survey, if you’re going to have a survey, you got to have a plan of what you’re going to do with the data. So come up with a very simple survey. And I would say ask that question, ask that survey, the exact same time next year so that you can have some sort of benchmarks. You know, doing a survey for no reason, you need to be able to have some data. And  I actually suggest surveying people frequently. There's a lot of great survey software out there. Like, I don’t know. Was it Officevibe? Culture Amp? All of these softwares that send random questions to employees. You may not have that software, the budget for that, but you can come up with a very easy SurveyMonkey or Google Forms with four or five questions and ask your employees every quarter. And they could be the same questions. Maybe you’ll find out that in the fall this one question’s being answered, and they’re lower in this for some reason. So for engagement, that would be my one tip is you got to ask your employees how they’re feeling. Douglas: Awesome. We've definitely covered the gamut, from starting off with a good impression on job descriptions; making sure we're thinking about that human connection in the remote landscape; the taxonomy—making sure we think about what bucket we're in, what is our style of remote work, and how can our approaches and tactics be tuned to be appropriate for our style—all the way through to making sure that we are engaging folks and even understanding how they're feeling, especially in this time of a global pandemic that can be damaging morales and stuff. So, wow, covered a ton, and it's been a blast thinking about all this stuff, Kaleem. And I know that the listeners are probably curious how they can connect with you, learn more, maybe end with a little bit around how they can find you. Kaleem: Yeah, sure. You can find me personally anywhere: kaleemclarkson. So I’m @kaleemclarkson on Twitter, LinkedIn. And you can find our company at blendmeinc.com. And also Remotely One. If you are a remote location, independent professional, and you’re feeling the pains of isolation and loneliness and you want to still kind of build your network, come join Remotely One. We’re a members-only community for location and independent professionals. So you can find us at remotelyone.com or @remotelyone.  And yeah, I guess if there was something that I wanted to kind of sign off on, I guess that would be, let's not all go back—if there was a piece of advice that I could give to organizations out there, don’t go back to the way it was before COVID-19 “just because.” So let me repeat that. Don't go back to business before COVID-19, don't go back “just because.” And what I mean by that is take this time as an opportunity to further develop your organization to be prepared for other disaster contingencies. They’re going to happen. If you're up in New England, you deal with the snow. Midwest, you deal the snow. I mean, there are disasters all the time. Hurricanes. Remote work, as you all have noticed, can help you make it through those times. So take this time to figure out how you can be better when you go back, when we go back, to the “new normal,” and maybe think about how you can reuse your space or reuse some of the things that you used to do before. So let's just not go back to the way it was before COVID-19. Douglas: Kaleem, it's been a pleasure having you on the show. Thanks for joining. Kaleem: I appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me on. Come back anytime. Outro: Thanks for joining me for another episode of Control the Room. Don't forget to subscribe to receive updates when new episodes are released. If you want more, head over to our blog, where I post weekly articles and resources about working better together, voltagecontrol.com.

Today’s podcast focuses on the community and you. As a high-achieving professional, your engagement in the local community where you live and work is of significant value. Listen to my podcast interview with Dwayne Bryant, CEO and Founder of Inner Vision International Inc. He used to work for Johnson & Johnson and made the successful pivot to entrepreneurship. Recognized as an EBONY Power 100 2018 Honoree, Dwayne is a dynamic motivational speaker who is committed to empowering individuals to recognize their value as societal contributors and global citizens. Highlights of our conversation - Dwayne Bryant’s book The STOP. In the book he shares perspective and personal stories on being stopped by the police are collected in this book and is a resource for his engagement with youth, particularly youth of color. - The importance of young professionals investing time and energy in the community. - Too often young professionals allow corporate life to define who they are. - Four (4) reasons young professionals benefit personally and professionally as a result of community engagement - Dwayne describe’s how he made the pivot from a corporate professional to entrepreneur Segment: Ask Coach Mo (A tip, coaching question and a bit of inspiration) Tip: Websites for volunteer opportunities (including in your local area) - CatchAFire.org - VolunteerMatch.org - Idealist.org - Connect with today’s guest Dwayne Bryant at www.DwayneBryant.com - Reach out to him if you want to explore ways that he can inspire and motivate youth in your area. He has some terrific virtual resources in development so get on the list to be one of the first to know when these become available. Coaching Question: What will you commit to doing toward community involvement in the next week? Please send me an email at AskCoachMo@gmail.com, I’d love to hear of your plans. Inspiration: DalaiLama The sole source of peace in families, countries and the world is altruism - - love and compassion.

Nick (incoming MS1 at UCSF) and Michael (MS2 at UCLA) have a merry time talking about how the pandemic has affected different types of students. We go over the following: How COVID-19 affects those who are applying How COVID-19 affects those who are NOT applying Extracurricular Opportunities available to be done remotely, courtesy of my friend @MDMotivator BeMyEyes.Com Connects blind people with sighted volunteers ChemoAngels.com to support their “buddy” throughout their journey with cards, uplifting messages, supportive words and lots of positive energy. VolunteerMatch.org UNV.org volunteer for the UN CrisisTextLine.org Crisis counseling 7cups.com Free emotional support How you should plan for the coming year.

This episode of 3 For You features dynamic Tri Delta alumna Tycely Williams, Wake Forest, providing powerful thoughts on giving back to our communities and seeing the “noble benefit” of our investments. Having been raised by educators, she believes every opportunity can be a teachable moment. With the courage to activate and share our talents, we can all blaze our own trails. By determining what causes matter most to you, you are able to accept the gifts of volunteering and giving back. Tune in for inspiring words on how we can all make a difference and encourage others to do the same.  "3 For You" is a series of resources to help guide you and uncover the best tips from experts as we navigate our new circumstances during COVID-19. Whether you like to Read, Listen, Watch or are looking for ways to Connect, we've got you covered. Check it out: https://bit.ly/2xGkBUJ  https://www.linkedin.com/in/tycelywilliams/Volunteermatch.orgIdealist.orgAllforgood.org

During this uncertain age, we have decided to share the voices of the strong real women we love and know. At BeachCandy Swimwear, we believe all women deserve to shine their brightest in a swimsuit. Our passion for women and the world is why we started the brand in the first place. Listen to women who are dedicated leaders in their space, whether it be motherhood or building an empire, the BeachCandy Babe shines the brightest of all.Featuring Carolyn Berndt, who's life is led by generosity & kindness. Actively involved in several local charities & on the board of Pacific Marina Mammal Center, Carolyn lives a life led by giving back. She truly is a woman in our community who leads by example. Learn more about how to get involved in your community through the links below!PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: https://www.pacificmmc.org/VolunteerMatch.org CaliforniaVolunteers.ca.govREAL WOMEN SHINE PODCAST PRESENTED BY BEACHCANDYSWIMWEAR.COM

Kevin & Jenna play some New Year's trivia - tell whether or not they kept their 2019 resolutions - and share their new goals for 2020!!! Find the best volunteer opportunities near Los Angeles with Volunteer Match: https://www.volunteermatch.org

Tobi Johnson, President & Founder of VolunteerPro, and Jennifer Bennett, Senior Manager, Education & Training at VolunteerMatch talk about why they started the Time + Talent podcast and outline the trends and themes that define this first season. Don't forget to subscribe to this show!

Today's episode is about the Buy One, Get One strategy that many companies are using to drive their strategic philanthropy efforts. How have you ever thought of using this to inspire a new model for growth and reaching fans with your music business? Related Episodes: Episode #40 - Strategic Philanthropy and Your Music Episode #118 - Art and Activism Resources: Podcast - How I Built This episode on TOMS (a great story!) Websites to find nonprofits: CharityNavigator.com and VolunteerMatch.org And if you're looking for a cool nonprofit, check out The Slants Foundation!

Charity/Philanthropy month is wrapping up, but we're not stopping our efforts to donate, spread the word and get involved! This was our first Facebook Live broadcast! Also, for the first time ever, we actually forgot it was Easter! Doh!! Volunteer Match: https://www.volunteermatch.org/volunteers/gettingstarted/  

In this episode of Pro Bono Perspectives, Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly and VolunteerMatch CEO Greg Baldwin reflect on the advantages and challenges of living in an age of unprecedented volunteering opportunities. Greg reveals how VolunteerMatch is taking strategic risks in order to stay competitive in the digital age and elevate the value of service experiences, both for volunteers and the organizations they support. VolunteerMatch now offers YourMatch™, a corporate volunteer management tool that provides access to an open network of 100k+ nonprofits as well as customizable homepage designs, personalized dashboards, easy-to-use reporting, and top-notch client support. To learn more about VolunteerMatch or to find service opportunities near you, visit https://www.volunteermatch.org.

Your time is valuable - donate it! When was the last time you volunteered at a nonprofit organization? National Volunteer Month is coming up in April, so set aside some time to check out opportunities in your community. In this episode, I’m talking with Basil, the Senior Marketing Manager at Volunteer Match, to learn all about finding the right volunteering opportunity for you! You’ll learn about how Volunteer Match can connect you with nonprofit organizations in your area, the benefits of volunteering (yes, giving back is about helping others, but it doesn't mean you can't also benefit!), and how to volunteer from the comfort of your couch.

In this episode I share some ideas and tips on how can we be socially conscious, and seek out support when planning a multicultural and/or destination wedding in a foreign country. I would also like to encourage you to give back, and help other multicultural couples make their wedding day dreams come true! Here are some of the websites and resources I’ve mentioned in the episode: Bridechilla Buy & Sell : https://www.facebook.com/groups/bridechillabuyandsell/ Brides Against Breast Cancer: https://www.bridesagainstbreastcancer.org/ Brides Across America: https://www.bridesacrossamerica.com/ Full Bloom: https://www.thefullbloom.org/ Redemption Market: https://redemptionmarket.com/ Volunteer Match: https://www.volunteermatch.org/ Botanical Paperworks: https://www.botanicalpaperworks.com/ GMM COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gettingmarriedmulticulturally/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/editvasadi/ GMM SHOWNOTES: Coming Soon!

How to Deal with Social Loneliness after Retirement Dealing with social loneliness after retirement is very difficult if you do not have people who cheer you up or support you or inspire you. Janelle Anderson is with us on this fourth episode of co-hosting the show and we will be talking about how to deal with social loneliness after retirement. This is also applicable pre-retirement! Janelle works with women as a Certified Professional Coach through her business, Emerging Life Coaching. She typically works with women who are transitioning into a new season in life, whether that is from the “busy mother raising children season” to an “empty nest” season or from “busy career life” to the season of retired life. Janelle helps them discover a new game to play and who they truly want to be in this “third act of life.” Her work with clients includes one-on-one private coaching sessions, as well as coaching groups, workshops, and personal development classes. Nourish your relationship People are building relationships at work but they do not nourish that relationship outside of work. After retirement, that relationship dies and now you're alone. It may lead to intense loneliness. Loneliness can cause a lot of problems like isolation, depression, and early death. The Harvard Men Study There was a study called the “Harvard Men Study” where they follow 268 men from their 30s to 70s to see how successful or happy they were. They wanted to see what are the characteristics of those who are happier and more successful in life compared to those who don't. The one that came to the top is called “love-full stop”. In other words, it is love (personal relationships and connections). Start looking for new friends to defeat social loneliness! If you don't have relationships now, you should take a look or make a list! Relationships that feed your soul, nourish you, support you, those are the ones you should be looking for. Church, joining clubs, classes are good places to find relationships. For the ones you currently have, ask yourself if you are nourishing that relationship. Are you still doing activities together outside of work? If not, then it may be a good time to start that now. Make time for your friends. Here are some ideas where you can meet new people One good place/website to meet people in your area is Meetup.com. I met so many of my best friends in Meetup. You can create a meetup group (with a fee, if you're the host) or you can just join existing groups. In Janelle's case, her church started a dinner fellowship. She became close with a couple of couples because of that. What's good about it is that you cannot choose who you're going to be grouped with. They will be the one to choose it. It's really cool because you get to meet new people. Spend time with your friends You do not have to go out with your friends every single day. You may go out one a week or once a month and catch up. Take turns in being the host. Janelle's daughter does “neighborhood dinner” where she invites some of her neighbors so that she could get to know them. Meet new people by volunteering Volunteering is another great way to find relationships. There are 3 places I found where you can volunteer if you haven't volunteered before. 1. VolunteerMatch.org – they'll send you volunteer gigs near your zip code 2. UnitedWay.org 3. Points of Light.

VolunteerMatch CEO Greg Baldwin joins U.S. Bank Community Relations Manager Erica Opstad to talk about how the nonprofit connects millions of volunteers with opportunities in their community and in their wheelhouse. 

We’re sharing the ways to support local during the holiday season as we challenge you to shop small, give back to your community, and opt outside. Links in this episode: * EntreLeadership on YouTube: What Is White Space at Work? | Juliet Funt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TVcgqF08GY) * The New York Times: The Congressional Uniform Is About to Change (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/fashion/women-changing-politics.html) * Confetti Foundation (http://confettifoundation.org/) * Giving Tuesday (https://www.givingtuesday.org/) * VolunteerMatch (https://www.volunteermatch.org/) * AmazonSmile (https://smile.amazon.com/) * Tom’s One for One (https://www.toms.com/improving-lives) * Warby Parker Buy A Pair, Give A Pair (https://www.warbyparker.com/buy-a-pair-give-a-pair) * 10Tree mission (https://www.tentree.com/pages/company) * Real Clear Life: 16 Brands That Use the TOMS Model of One-for-One Giving (http://www.realclearlife.com/books/16-brands-use-toms-model-one-one-giving/) * Even Odd (https://evenodd.us/) * Certified B Corporation (https://bcorporation.net/) * Time: Here’s How to Help Firefighters Battling the Deadly California Fires (http://time.com/money/5452226/california-fires-how-to-help-donate-firefighters/) * REI: Opt Outside (https://www.rei.com/opt-outside) * Hikyoga Black Friday – Opt Outside (https://www.hikyoga.com/event/hikyoga-black-friday-opt-outside/)

Managing Volunteers is key to the success of nonprofits and associations. In this episode of PM Point of View, host Kendall Lott talks with three Volunteer Management experts on the importance, the components, and the impact of good volunteer management. Listeners will learn about ways that volunteer managers can support their organization as well as their volunteers. This might include a rigorous on-boarding process; keeping volunteers aligned with the organization's mission; matching volunteers with suitable positions; and collecting data to be an effective advocate, and to track Return on Volunteer Investment. Factors such as Risk Management and Volunteer Retention are also discussed. Listen, learn, and get a free PDU! PDU Information Earn education PDUs in the PMI Talent Triangle for each podcast. Use the following information in PMI’s CCRS system to register the PDUs for this podcast: PDU Category: Online or Digital Media Provider Number: 4634 PDU Claim Code:  4634114XUE Activity Number: PMPOV0055 PDUs for this episode: 1 About the Speakers   Jennifer Bennett, CVA, is the Senior Manager of Education and Training at VolunteerMatch. With her breadth of experience she is well qualified to help VolunteerMatch’s community of Nonprofits better recruit and engage volunteers. She shares her knowledge with volunteer managers through the webinars found on the Learning Center, in newsletters and blog entries, and in person at conferences around the country. She joined the Board of the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration in 2012, and is the current Board Chair.   Teri Johnson is the Vice President of Volunteer Engagement for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  In her role with this national nonprofit, she is developing volunteer engagement strategy and programming that allows volunteers to be true partners to staff in efforts to fund-raise, fuel mission and so much more. Prior to joining LLS, Teri served as Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Training and Consulting, at the Points of Light Foundation. In that role, she built strategic partnerships with national and international organizations to further volunteerism, including volunteer engagement strategy and resources development, training, consulting and overseeing national volunteer conferences.   Valerie Pisierra has been working with volunteers for over 20 years, and knows what it is like to be on both sides of the volunteer equation. She is currently the Executive Director for Loudoun Cares, a Virginia-based nonprofit that connects residents and nonprofits. Valerie has worked with student and parent organizations, as well as, the European organization Americans Working Around the Globe (AWAG), which focuses on training and connecting volunteers. She holds a BS and MBA in Business Management, and  has received numerous awards for her personal volunteer efforts.

Stephanie Staidle is a licensed art therapist and business coach who helps individuals and companies bring their visions alive into the world through businesses they love that make a difference. Her mission is to transform the world of business from one that relies solely on logic, language, and numbers to one that values creativity, risk-taking, play and innovation. The Right Brain Entrepreneur is the result of the frustration with a society that encourages ‘playing it safe' with all work and no play, suppressing our fullest, innate potential for success. Most of the education system does not set up the foundation for world changing entrepreneurs and happy companies. With an extensive background in psychology (BA from Georgetown University) and the arts (SNSImages), Stephanie has over eight years experience as a counselor, art therapist and personal development coach. She is a licensed creative art therapist in the state of New York (LCAT), and nationally board certified (ATR-BC). Prior to receiving her Masters in Art Therapy at New York University, she spent many years working for large corporations doing marketing and advertising for clients such as American Express and Clear Channel. Stephanie was one of six coaches selected for the Leadership Corps of PRO U, a premiere business and entrepreneurial education community. As a part of this department, she offered mindset training and leadership mentorship to budding entrepreneurs in the PRO community. Now, as the founder of The Right Brain Entrepreneur, she provides on-site workshops and coaching to business professionals worldwide, educating them on the science behind achieving results in business by using ‘right brain thinking', offering outside-the-box solutions to improve team building, problem-solving, and employee satisfaction. Stephanie has worked with educators, Google executives, lawyers and non-profits. She led the creation of the largest Vision Board on record at TedxFidiWomen 2013 in San Francisco. She led a sold out workshop, ‘Finding Your Why' at SXSW 2014 in Austin, TX as well as JUMP START for Startups as 2015 SXSW V2V and was featured as an expert on NBC and EVOX Television Networks. As an international speaker, Stephanie has spoken for large organizations such as Morgan Stanley, Volunteer Match and the American Business Women's Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices (megaphone.fm/adchoices)

070 Sara Everett-Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry, Inc. (WARM) Warm Hearts, WARM Shelters—Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry When the hurricane blew out, the men from a local church rushed in to begin rebuilding, focusing on the storm-damaged homes of the community's low-income neighbors. But what they discovered changed their mission. The need for repairs had existed well before the storm, but the occupants did not have the resources to be able to make their homes safer for their day-to-day lives. And so began the Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry. For more than 20 years now WARM has been uniting compassionate people to rebuild homes and restore hope by making people safer in their own homes. Very often those who benefit are elderly or disabled who need wheelchair ramps, grab-bar installation, plumbing improvements, roof or floor repairs, installation of essential appliances and heating and cooling, and whatever else that can lower the risk of falls, fires, and other home accidents. All WARM repairs are related to safety or health issues. With the assistance of a dedicated core of local volunteers, several of whom bring their professional construction and repair backgrounds to the job, WARM is able to prepare the sites and supervise additional volunteers, many of whom have no previous experience. Last year alone 2300 volunteers repaired nearly 150 homes. Volunteers come from across the country. Some are "voluntourists," making volunteering a significant part of their vacation. Others come from church mission teams. Some church groups come back every summer or every other year. Also, local business and churches designate Service Days and send volunteers regularly. Some people find WARM through VolunteerMatch.com or WARM's Facebook site. Why do volunteers come back? Sara Everett, who has been the volunteer coordinator, hears them say that they get more out of the experience than they feel they give, that they are happy to be connected to others who are passionate about volunteering and giving back, and that they discover that no matter the level of their own skills they can make a significant impact for good. And yes, people love being a part of a team, and they also like developing their own home-repair skills. Sara speaks with a mix of humility and pride of the fact that the recipients of the repairs do not need to pay. The organization also seeks grants and does fundraising for supplies. And then every WARM dollar is stretched by the warm hearts of the volunteers as they pick up their tools and make it possible for those who were so vulnerable to live safely and independently in their own homes. To find out more about WARM in Wilmington, North Carolina, visit warmnc.org or their Facebook page. If you are interested in the potential of sending a mission team, contact elizabethguy@warmnc.org. To locate similar programs in your area, check the national directory of member organizations in the ReFrame Association (reframeassociation.org).

Recorded 5/16/17 Follow up Water Sprites vs. Water Mouse Glenn was incorrect; they were called Water Mouse for six years Breakdown: Water Sprites - 27 years (59%) Water Mouse - 6 years (13%) (’98 - ’04 - The [“slap a Mickey on it”](http://passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2017/04/making-it-disney.html) years) Sea Raycers - 13 (and counting) years (28%) Pirates of the Caribbean movie was…pirated Update to My Disney Experience app Can now order food at counter service restaurants Only at Animal Kingdom now Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 - Chris went to see it and enjoyed it Chris’ adventure at the movies New fireworks show at the MK: Happily Ever After Glenn watched the livestream Chris has watched it from his house and has seen photos, but hasn’t watched the livestream Glenn is excited for it; Chris isn’t sure Pandora - Avatarland Glenn needs to make Fastpass reservations Two new attractions; need to figure out which one to get the FP for Tickets for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party are on sale In October and December, the cost is $100 per person People doing good things: [Volunteer Match](https://www.volunteermatch.org/) Picks of the week: Chris: [Marvel Unlimited‎](http://marvel.com/comics/unlimited?SEM=Google&cid=MarvelUnlimited?&gclid=CjwKEAjwr_rIBRDJzq-Z-LC_2HgSJADoL57HiplZDxXDYfNwZ62Md5OcM9eBHpuklYXjuo6dHRPc-xoCIY_w_wcB) Glenn: [Backblaze](https://secure.backblaze.com/r/01ljd6)

Greg Baldwin, president of VolunteerMatch joins This is Civity Radio to discuss how a Civity Brush on BART profoundly impacted him and people around him, eventually ending up on the social media page of KTVU's Frank Somerville, who dedicates his feed to impactful storytelling. Baldwin now encourages people to set aside their instinct to persuade, and instead listen, hear, and seek understanding across divides.

What if nonprofits had the same marketing, technology, HR and strategy resources as corporations? Taproot, a service that connects organizations with passionate, skilled volunteers through pro bono work, aims to do just that. Pro bono services enable organizations to drive social change with a connection of resources. When successful, these engagements build overall engagement, and open up channels for growth. This week, Alexandra Hallock, Senior Program Manager for the Taproot Foundation, joined Driving Participation to explore the relationship between an organization and its volunteers. Beth and Allie discuss the necessary components for a pro bono partnership, and what nonprofits can do to make the volunteer experience rewarding for all parties involved.

What to do after retirement? Teri Lippert gives advice on what to do after retirement based on her experience. You can listen to the show at http://rockyourretirement.libsyn.com/get-out-and-do-something-episode-007 Get out and Do Something! Why is Teri's advice to get out and do something?  Before Teri Lippert retired always had a volunteer spirit.  She worked for the Girl Scouts program and had planned on working for a few more years before retirement.  However, after working 14 hour days and dealing with some difficult work situations, she decided to retire early while she was still young enough to travel and do other things that she wanted to do. Luckily, she had planned well financially and was able to do this.  But what was she going to do with her time?  When she was working, she had NO HOBBIES.  Her work was her entire life.  After a year, she started feeling depressed and figured that she’d better figure it out, so used her work skills to find out how to Rock her Retirement.   She knew that she had to get out and do something.  So she did.  She is now Rocking her Retirement in the following areas: Social and Family: * Teri did some research and joined the Riverside Women’s Club. The Riverside Women’s Club is celebrating their 128th The group is under the California Federation of Women's Clubs, which is under the General Federation of Women's Clubs.  There are Women’s Clubs all over the United States, and you do not have to be retired to join. * The Riverside Women’s club was formed in 1896 and now has about 62 members. Terri will find out if she gets elected as president of the club in April 2016. * Teri was elected to the to serve as membership chair with the club which was honored by earning the coveted SHOE award and is currently serving as the first Vice President or Dean. * The club serves over a hundred charities in the Riverside area. * Teri mentioned that she cannot have the club be her entire social life because she doesn’t feel that this is healthy so has outside activities that she does as well * Teri realizes that she needs to balance the time she spends with her social activities, hobbies, and still have time for her family. She schedules time in her calendar so that she makes time for everything and everyone in her life, including her sister, Barbara Lippert. Adventure and Travel: * Teri and her partner travel extensively, mostly throughout the USA since they have a time share. They normally take one big trip a year and 3 smaller trips.  This definitely helps her get out and do something! * Since they have a time share, there are over 300 properties where they can stay, and they enjoy finding new places to visit. * Her favorite trip so far was New Orleans. They loved it because of the jazz music, the above-ground cemeteries, and of course the food.  Not only do they travel by land, but they are also planning a cruise for September 2016. Volunteer and Philanthropy: * Teri found the Women’s Club by going to VolunteerMatch.com * Many times you can also find ways to volunteer by going to your city’s website. * Teri’s social life is tied to her volunteer work...

This morning on Taking Action, Greg Baldwin from Volunteer Match. And, your calls and the news that you're making. 6 am Pacific/9 Eastern.

This morning on Taking Action, Greg Baldwin from Volunteer Match. And, your calls and the news that you're making. 6 am Pacific/9 Eastern.

When approaching funders and volunteers you must "come from a space of opportunity and not from a space of need," argues Pamela Hawley at the 2007 Nonprofit Boot Camp. In this audio lecture, drawing from her experience with UniversalGiving and VolunteerMatch, Hawley describes what it takes to create a successful social entrepreneurship organization. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/pamela_hawley_-_the_social_entrepreneurship_landscape