Podcasts about volunteer program

St. Louis County Animal Care and Control Adoption Center volunteers have spent nearly 28,000 hours walking dogs, cleaning kennels and promoting adoptable pets so far this year. Despite their contributions, the county's Department of Public Health has decided to end the shelter's volunteer program. That decision has volunteers and advocates worried about what will happen to the animals at the facility — especially since the shelter has previously come under fire for improper care. STLPR journalists Danny Wicentowski and Ulaa Kuziez discuss their reporting on the decision, share background on the shelter's history and talk about plans for the shelter's future.

Host: Carol MacAllister Guest: Sandra Wilson, Manager of Volunteer Services for the WV Supportive Living Volunteer Program. Description: Supportive Living includes both Personal care (formally called Assisted Living) and Skilled Nursing both at the Glen (on the Manor campus) and at Lakeside on the Lakes Campus. Volunteers have many things they can offer from leading discussion groups, to being a friendly visitor, to crafts assisting, bingo, card games and social country rides. If you have a well-behaved dog, you can bring your pet as well without them being certified therapy dogs. Sandy has about 30-40 active volunteers, but more are needed and welcomed. You can find out more about volunteering by calling Sandy at 717-464-6811 or going to the Intranet-Volunteer link.

Today - In a recent turn of events in the legal proceedings of a high-profile double-murder case in Gunnison County, a proposed plea agreement was withdrawn, leaving the court and the families involved without immediate resolution. Support the show: https://www.montrosepress.com/site/forms/subscription_services/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest today was Brittany Goerges, Program Coordinator, Crow Wing County Master Gardener Volunteer Program.

(Episode 279) On this show the Blueberry Chicks Shelly Hartmann, Hillary Fisher and Treat Hartmann get to taste the difference between Jams, Jellies and Preserves. Michelle Davis, Director of the Senior Volunteer Program at the Senior Services of Van Buren County comes to the studio to talk about the Volunteer Program. Amanda Jones tells us about her junk museum in Eau Claire, Michigan. On Mason Dixon's Front Porch Stomp, he invites Johnny D, The Motivational Cowboy to the show by phone to talk about making the world a better place, betting on yourself and getting the motivation to make it happen. On Let's Talk Real Estate without Tina Goodrich, Gina Johnston-Small brings in special guest Heather Christensen from Worthwhile Home Organizing and Staging to talk about the value of a properly staged house for sale. It's all here, right now and so much more on Rob Byrd's Moondog Show.

Here's a chance to set your little achiever on a path to making friends for life! Marc Kulick, CEO of Vesta Capital, is partnering with KCteen to launch the Friends@Home (410-530-4150) program for children with disabilities in Kansas City.Visit https://vestarealproperty.com/blog/news-release-friendship-circle-kc-introduces-friendshome-for-inclusive-bonds/ to participate. Vesta Capital City: Tulsa Address: 6911 S 66th E Ave Website: https://www.vestarealproperty.com/

In this episode of the Volunteer Nation podcast, Tobi Johnson shares insightful tips on how to create smarter volunteer program assessments, without the need for expensive external consultants. Tobi discusses the importance of learning from assessments to grow volunteer programs and shares her step-by-step plan for performing a DIY program audit.  Tobi also discusses the importance of learning from assessments to grow volunteer programs and shares her step-by-step plan for performing a volunteer program assessment, discussing how to involve your volunteers, the talking points to include and much more.  Full show notes: Episode 106. Smarter Volunteer Program Assessment  Thanks 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.

With a career spanning over three decades, Karen Knight is a seasoned professional renowned for her unwavering commitment to the not-for-profit sector. Having navigated various leadership roles in both the private and public sectors, Karen's journey highlights her adaptability and versatility.  Key Takeaways:Before looking for volunteers, establish the roles that they will fill or come up with a list of tasks that they will do. Know who you are looking for and what they're going to do. Keep your volunteers happy by making them feel appreciated. Thank every volunteer in every shift and in specific if possible. If you can't be specific, then show them that you see what they're contributing. Talk to your volunteers. If you listen, people tell you about what they want. Don't spend time and energy arranging an event for the volunteers that they may not necessarily like. Instead, ask them what they want. Volunteers are not merely “free workers”. The senior leadership needs to realize the value of investing in their volunteer program. One change that could make an impact is to hire a volunteer manager who's qualified and appropriately funded. Being a volunteer manager is a senior leadership position.  “The more people who are involved in your mission, the faster it'll advance, you get to your mission sooner. The more people you bring in, the more ideas you have, the more enthusiasm you have - it just builds on itself.” “You have to be ready for your volunteers. Otherwise, it's, you're frustrating them and you're not making any difference to your cause. Once you know who you're looking for, you will find them.” “You need to have the buy-in of the senior executive of the board to invest in the [volunteer] program. You need to realize that [managing volunteers] is a senior leadership position and treat it as such and fund it as such.” - Karen Knight Reach out to Karen Knight at:Website: https://karenknight.ca/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-knight-consulting/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarenKnightConsulting  Ask for and receive all you want need and deserve without feeling rejected, ineffective, or pushy. Learn to manage your mindset, lead yourself and others more effectively and have the meaningful conversations that drive your most important work. Get your free starter kit today at www.theinfluentialnonprofit.com Book your quickie intro call with Maryanne here! Connect with Maryanne Dersch: https://www.courageouscommunication.com/connect

Southwest Alabama (RSVP) Retired Senior and Volunteer Program will be providing free tax preparation assistance and e-filing for federal and state taxes until April 11. To qualify the household income must be ,000 or less. All volunteers are trained by the IRS. For more information or to see if you qualify, contact RSVP at 334-637-1143. Grove Hill National Guard Reunion- March 2 at 4 p.m. at David's Catfish in Thomasville. Social assistance at Salvation Army — The Salvation Army Social Service office is open on Wednesdays from 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. When in need of assistance with food and...Article Link

Southwest Alabama (RSVP) Retired Senior and Volunteer Program will be providing free tax preparation assistance and e-filing for federal and state taxes until April 11. To qualify the household income must be ,000 or less. All volunteers are trained by the IRS. For more information or to see if you qualify, contact RSVP at 334-637-1143. Grove Hill National Guard Reunion- March 2 at 4 p.m. at David's Catfish in Thomasville. Social assistance at Salvation Army — The Salvation Army Social Service office is open on Wednesdays from 9-11 a.m. and 2-4 p.m. When in need of assistance with food and...Article Link

Call-A-Ride program to take seniors to medical appointments is having particular issues in keeping enough drivers to provide transportation. Cassie Rose and Michelle Smith are the CVN managers dealing with the shortages.

Special Guest: Melissa Hackmeier: Global Head of Employee and Community Engagement, Sustainability & Social Business Innovation at Merck Life Science Education and engagement are fundamental to all Melissa Hackmeier does at Merck Life Science. As Global Head of Employee and Community Engagement, she leads the development and implementation of employee and community engagement strategy, programs and nonprofit partnerships, as well as communications to raise awareness about these initiatives. She launched the company's first-ever SPARK global volunteer program focused on science education, with employee participants volunteering more than 112,000 hours to engage more than 310,000 students in 41 countries to date. She is also responsible for leading Merck's flagship science education programming, including the Curiosity Labs program, which educates and inspires students around the world through hands-on, interactive science lessons led by employees, and the Curiosity Cube, a retrofitted shipping container turned mobile science lab that travels across North America and Europe to spark curiosity in visitors of all ages through hands-on learning. Join us as we discuss best practices to get employees involved with volunteer initiatives and maintain the program's impact Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Dodds

Amy Levine discusses how a volunteer doula program can alleviate pressure on clinical staff and build a hospital's reputation as a caring place.

In this episode we talk to three RNs, Cynthia Peterson, Anna Marie Carlson and Jean Freeman from UVMMC who participated in the April 2023 MEDLIFE global health volunteer program to Ecuador. They share their experience with the program and how this inspiring trip impacted their lives.

Description: The only thing constant in life is change. Adriane and Eric share how to not only navigate that change but practically predict it so you can prepare and respond to it; not react to it. They talk about current trends in our sector…and outside of it…. because they all matter. It's amazing what you can see when you look at something differently. I encourage you to give it a try. You are worth it.ResourcesErin Spink's E-Book New Voices & New Perspectives in Volunteer Engagement. Connect with Adrianehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianebeaudry/ More About AdrianeWith close to 25 years of experience as a leader of volunteers and a recent recipient of the Linda Buchanan Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Volunteer Engagement, Adriane has dedicated her career to volunteer engagement. As a Past President of PAVRO (Professional Association of Volunteer Leaders Ontario), Committee member with Volunteer Management Professionals of Canada (VMPC), and Past Chair of her local Association for Volunteer Administrators she has provided informal coaching and support along with formal training to other leaders of volunteers both locally as well as provincially and nationally. Lifelong learning is vital to growth and Adriane takes the opportunity to continue learning and growing wherever she canConnect with Eric:Website: https://www.ericleoblais.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericleoblais/More About EricEric brings over 25 years of academic knowledge and practical experience leading innovation within various industries including broadcast and digital media, non-profit organizations, health and fitness, human resource, and various start-ups. Enamored with what's new, Eric believes that a strong vision sets the strategy while design thinking makes the impossible happen. Able to see infinite possibilities, he loves making the complex understandable and the future plausible. Wrapped in humor and unconventional wisdom, Eric customizes each innovation and strategic foresight process using proven methodology. Borrowing from Buddhist philosophy: change is inevitable, and suffering is optional!Learn more about how Nicole can help your volunteer program grow and flourish when you visitwww.nicolersmith.com

Description: Traci and Kayla stop by to talk about the Supportive Environment for Effectiveness (S.E.E. ) model.  They also chat about the importance of professional development, building infrastructure within volunteer engagement, what they love (and hate) about collaboration, presenting at Points of Light, being ambassadors for REDIRECT and how to choose worthy group project partners.Connect with TraciTraci Lato-Smith, CVAOwner / Consultant720.446.6VMC  (720.446.6862)www.volunteermanagementconsulting.comTraci Lato-Smith, CVA BIOFounder, Owner, & Principal ConsultantVolunteer Management ConsultingTraci Lato-Smith, a Certified Volunteer Administrator, comes to VMC with a rich background in the nonprofit world and a deep passion for volunteerism and service.  Raised in Phoenix and educated at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Traci has lived and worked in Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis and Denver.  Traci has spent her career working with volunteers in the non-profit sector and has worked for The Denver Hospice, Denver Scholarship Foundation, St. Louis Naturally Occurring Retirement Community, A Miner Miracle, The National Conference for Community and Justice, the Anti-Defamation League of Greater Chicago, and the Boys and Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix. Since starting her consulting business, Traci has been proud to work with nonprofits around the country, including Points of Light, the Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement (AL!VE), and the reDirect Foundation. Traci has worked extensively with the Service Enterprise Program as a consultant, trainer, and coach, certifying organizations that fundamentally leverage volunteers and their skills to achieve their social missions.In addition to her professional work in the field of volunteer engagement, Traci volunteers her own time in a variety of ways.  She is a former member of the Board of Directors for Denver DOVIA (Directors of Volunteers In Agencies), has presented multiple times at the Colorado Nonprofit Association Fall Conference, the Colorado Conference on Volunteerism, and Rural Philanthropy Days, and volunteers at a skilled nursing facility with her two young children. She is also an active PTA member and a lover of horses, yoga, and hiking with her Labrador Retriever, Sunshine Daydream.Volunteer Management ConsultingSupporting Agencies for Effective Volunteer EngagementA little more about KaylaExperienced human capital engagement professional and trainer with a demonstrated history of working in non-profit organization change management, volunteer engagement, training, marketing, business-to-business sales, program management, strategic planning, and facilitation.Always looking for ways to empower organizations to fully harness the capabilities of their human capital (both paid and unpaid) to achieve their mission.Connect with Kayla:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylampaulson/Kayla@KaylaPaulson.comambassador@redirect.org 319.310.0901Learn more about how Nicole can help your volunteer program grow and flourish when you visitwww.nicolersmith.com

GROVE HILL FARMERS' MARKET- opens June 1, Hours will be from 2 p.m. until. Southwest Alabama (RSVP) Retired Senior and Volunteer Program will collect any envelopes that you receive in the mail. Bring them by the Thomasville Nutrition Center so that the volunteers can get them ready to send to the Stamps for the Wounded and help our veterans stay mentally active. They've given so much for us. Let's give back in this small way. The Thomasville Nutrition Center is located at 147 Adams Ave., Thomasville, AL 36784. The Stamps for the Wounded organization is dedicated to providing comfort and...Article Link

In this episode, we're continuing a special series during which we're exploring how to use technology to help you grow things that are NOT membership.In the work that I do with clients, I'm most often talking about membership growth, but in the quest for that, organizations often find themselves needing more people power. Questions begin to bubble up about who will help with outreach and follow-up.So listen in as I share 9 specific ways that technology can make it easier to grow your volunteer base.Connect with JoyWebsite:joyofmembership.comjourneycare.app

This week's Nevada Wild celebrates National Volunteer Month! NDOW is lucky to have incredibly skilled and passionate volunteers working hard across the state. From field work to educational programming, volunteers are vital to this agency. Ashley Sanchez and Aaron Keller are joined by NDOW Volunteer Program Coordinators Nicole Hamblin, Michelle Lopez, and Julie Bless. They explain why volunteers are so important to NDOW's conservation programs and projects, upcoming volunteer opportunities across the state and how you can get involved! Find everything you need to know to get started as a volunteer here: https://www.ndow.org/learn-discover/get-involved/

The Clarke County Board of Human Resources will hold their regular meeting on Thursday, May 11, at 10 a.m. The public is invited to attend. Southwest Alabama (RSVP) Retired Senior and Volunteer Program will collect any envelopes that you receive in the mail. Bring them by the Thomasville Nutrition Center so that the volunteers can get them ready to send to the Stamps for the Wounded and help our veterans stay mentally active. They've given so much for us. Let's give back in this small way. The Thomasville Nutrition Center is located at 147 Adams Ave., Thomasville, AL 36784. The...Article Link

Community News and Interviews for the Catskills & Northeast Pennsylvania

Learn about volunteer opportunities at Catholic Charities of Oregon.Pope Francis Center for Volunteerism.Subscribe to the Morning Blend on your favorite podcast platform.Find this show on the free Hail Mary Media App, along with a radio live-stream, prayers, news, and more.Look through past episodes or support this podcast.The Morning Blend is a production of Mater Dei Radio in Portland, Oregon.

Description: Traci and Nicole discuss different ways to monetize your volunteer program. Shares her challenges and hilarious stories regarding corporate volunteering events that brought in over one million dollars for her organization and Nicole shares about being awarded a grant for her volunteer program.A little more about Traci: Traci Blue is a Community Relations Management professional with a passion for working within the Central Florida community and 20+ years of experience in the fields of community relations, public relations, training, coaching, and management. She has spent her career serving in the fields of corporate sports management, government, and non-profit management.  She also serves on several non-profit Boards of Directors in the Central Florida community, including Orlando/Orange County COMPACT, Athlete Connections, Parramore Community Engagement Council, and OCPS ACE School Community Leadership Council.Ms. Blue currently serves as the Director of Strategic Community Initiatives for Bright Community Trust. She manages community outreach programs in Central Florida, including food delivery programs, teen summits, COVID testing, financial literacy, emergency rental assistance application navigation, etc.She has earned a Certification in Volunteer Administration, which serves as evidence of experience and leadership in the field of volunteer management. She is also a Certified Practitioner of Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), in order to facilitate the MBTI as a resource for individuals, groups, and organizations.Connect with Traci:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciblue-cva/ E-Mail – Traci@thebrightway.orgCCVA website www.cvacert.org Learn more about how Nicole can help your volunteer program grow and flourish when you visitwww.nicolersmith.com

Your volunteer program's KPIs are like your vital signs. Think about it – when you go to your doctor, what does the nurse do first? Check your vitals – weight, blood pressure, pulse oxygen, urinalysis, blood work. These numbers help to quickly assess your level of wellness, and they give your medical team direction to locate problems and determine whether a treatment plan is working. The same goes for nonprofit programs, including your volunteer engagement strategy. Knowing your nonprofit KPIs for volunteers can help you identify early issues and assess whether certain interventions are making a difference. Full show notes: 036-5 Nonprofit KPIs Your Volunteer Program Should be Tracking - Tobi Johnson & AssociatesThanks 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.

On this episode of We Talk Health, Melissa Pipkin joins Will Kwasigroh again to talk about the hospice volunteer program at Hospice of West Tennessee. Melissa goes into detail about the program, who can volunteer, the requirements and how you can get involved. If you're interested in joining, give Melissa a call at 731-664-4220. Tune in to learn more! Hosts: Will KwasigrohSocial Media Coordinator Melissa Pipkin, LBSWVolunteer Coordinator

Yiuwin Tsang from the Beautiful Business team is joined by Gail Hoban. Gail is the co-founder of B Corp certified design agency, Gas Studio. Gail talks to Yiuwin about how Gas Studio formally donates 5% of time every year to pro bono projects. This approach has many benefits, including how Gas gets to help organisations who are helping others further down the line. And being able to commit that to two or three organisations, means they can support quite a few initiatives with their small team. Another unexpected bonus is how Gas has expanded its knowledge base and expertise on these special projects, which in turn means Gail and the team have been able to win business in new and interesting areas and benefit from a wider network of contacts.Listen in to learn more...Gail Hoban is the co-founder and creative strategist at Gas Studio, a B Corp certified design studio, who advocate design as a tool to encourage access to positive life chances. Gail and co-founder Steve Goodwin believe that design is a powerful tool to reach diverse groups. Gas Studio has learned that understanding your community first, helps to build positive campaigns that are believable. They work with organisations and charities helping them move past the usual stereotypes and reading abilities to make communications work. For more interesting discussion, join us at www.beautifulbusiness.uk 

We spoke to James Sancto, CEO of We Make Change. He talks us through how the team built a network of ChangeMakers, connecting skilled people with social enterprises across the world. Listen on to find out how a simple concept has gone on to change the lives of many communities by using volunteer time effectively.  Hosted by Yiuwin Tsang from the Beautiful Business community team.

Employee volunteerism has become an essential component of a company's corporate social responsibility and employee engagement strategies. In this episode, Melissa Hackmeier, global head of employee & community engagement at MilliporeSigma, joins the podcast to discuss how she launched the company's first ever global volunteer program and the best practices and lessons she's learned along the way. Topics covered in this episode: How Melissa developed and implemented MilliporeSigma's first-ever SPARK™ global volunteer program, which has more than 9,700 employee participants engaging 235,000 students in 36 countries to date How Melissa secured buy-in for their program The key's to the program's successful launch and lessons learned along the way The role of technology in enabling a successful global volunteer program The SPARK program's biggest impacts, both internally and externally Melissa's advice for other CSR professionals looking to start or grow employee volunteer programs What nonprofits looking to engage with corporate volunteers should consider Resources Melissa Hackmeier MilliporeSigma's CSR Program MilliporeSigma's SPARK Volunteer Program Blackbaud Institute Report: CSR Programs as an Employee Engagement Tool Employee Giving and Volunteering Made Easy

In this episode of Bucks County Conversations, we talk about Buck County's Foster Parent and Volunteer Program. The Bucks County Children and Youth Social Services Agency currently has close to 200 children in its foster care system, which depends on dedicated caseworkers, as well as adults and volunteers who help to make a difference in the lives of children. Shantelle Gammon, Foster Parent and Volunteer Recruiter for Bucks County C&Y, breaks down the process of getting involved and explains just how important it is for kids to realize that they're not alone.Follow us: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTokCheck us out online: BucksCounty.gov

This is the end of this volunteer spotlight series where Jill, the Co-Director, is joined by Alicia - the Educational Development Manager, Sabrina - the Support Line Program Manager, and Mary - the Co-Director, to offer up some reflections on the WOMAN, Inc. Volunteer Program and to share our gratitude and appreciation to all those that volunteer with the organization.

Did you know that our Volunteer Program has several diverse opportunities through which volunteers can dedicate their time? Join us in conversation with Heather Boyle, our Director of Volunteer Services, as she shares details about the various facets of care within our program. She describes each discipline in detail, additional trainings built into the program, and how our program's flexibility supports volunteer retention and growth.

The Clarke County Board of Human Resources will hold its regular meeting Thursday, May 12 at 10 a.m. The public is invited to attend. Southwest Alabama (RSVP) Retired Senior and Volunteer Program will collect any envelopes that you receive in the mail. Bring them by the Thomasville Nutrition Center so that the volunteers can get them ready to send to the Stamps for the Wounded and help our veterans stay mentally active. They've given so much for us. Let's give back in this small way. The Thomasville Nutrition Center is located at 147 Adams Ave., Thomasville, AL 36784. The Stamps...Article Link

Meet our new volunteer and events manager, Becca, and learn about the many ways to get involved as a volunteer in parks and recreation.

In this episode of RecoverED we talk to Volunteer Program Manager, Kady Younkman and Volunteer Coordinator, Kelly Williams in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month. We discuss why volunteers are essential to The Magdalen House, the personal benefits of volunteering, what makes our Volunteer Program so special, and more! To hear more from Kelly: Studying the Steps, Step 12: https://anchor.fm/the-magdalen-house/episodes/Kelly-W-with-Step-12--Studying-the-Steps--A-Podcast-from-The-Magdalen-House-e1b2a1k To hear more from Kady: Studying the Steps, Steps 8 & 9: https://anchor.fm/the-magdalen-house/episodes/Steps-8--9-with-Kady-T--Studying-the-Steps--A-Podcast-from-the-Magdalen-House-e19k1h7 Recovered: https://anchor.fm/the-magdalen-house/episodes/Kady-T---Episode-6--Recovered-Interviews-with-Alcoholic-Women-eh10qo Gratitude In Action Blog: https://magdalenhouse.org/gratitude-in-action/ Show Notes: "What is 12 Step Immersion?": https://anchor.fm/the-magdalen-house/episodes/What-is-12-Step-Immersion--with-Ainsley-Chapman--RecoverED--A-Podcast-from-The-Magdalen-House-e1enbfs To receive more information on alcoholism and recovery, you can request a speaker at magdalenhouse.org/resources-and-education/education/for in-person and virtual presentations. The Magdalen House is a 501c3 nonprofit organization helping women achieve sobriety and sustain recovery from alcoholism at no cost and based on 12-Step spiritual principles. You can learn more about our comprehensive recovery services at magdalenhouse.org. Please note, the curriculum we teach through our programs is from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. However, we are not an A.A. group and we are not associated with Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

This month's theme is Volunteer Management. You don't want to miss this upcoming Nonprofit Enthusiast Live as Lasheena Williams shares insider tips for launching your volunteer management program with efficiency and effectiveness. We all know volunteers are the bedrock for nonprofit growth, and Lasheena will share how to streamline the process of building a program that values their volunteers and leads with excellence.

What does the RfR Volunteer Program look like and how can people volunteer for Recovering from Religion? We sit down with Shana Rubio, the RfR Board Secretary and Volunteer Coordinator, to learn more! https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/volunteer Hosted by Eric Wells, RfR Support Group Director. Shana Rubio was born and raised in Colorado as a Jehovah's Witness. After awaking from the cult in 2017 she quickly started her own Ex-Jehovah's Witness Meetup in the Denver metro area. She is an active member of The Secular Hub as well as managing the membership database for Jefferson Humanists. Shana was invited to participate in the A&E Leah Remini Scientology: The Aftermath Season 3 Special Jehovah's Witnesses in 2018. She is passionate about helping fellow “awoke” members of society to help navigate in the secular world. She works as an Administrative Assistant for city government while enjoying all the beauty the rocky mountains have to offer. For RfRx comments, inquiries & topical questions, email us at RfRx@recoveringfromreligion.org. Any time you are struggling with religious doubts or fears you can connect with a trained RfR Helpline agent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To chat online go to http://www.recoveringfromreligion.org. To talk over the phone, dial: (844) 368-2848 in the US & Canada +3 4505 2402 in Australia +20 3856 8791 in the UK +27 11 043 5323 in South Africa Peer support is also available through local support groups. These groups offer monthly in-person meetings as a place to express doubts, fears, emotions & concerns about religion you wouldn't normally feel comfortable expressing in a religious community. Find your nearest support group at https://www.meetup.com/pro/recovering-from-religion If you are in need of professional help, we can offer the Secular Therapy Project to provide options to connect with a professional therapist. All therapists have been thoroughly vetted by our organization and offer only evidence-based and non-religious treatment. Connect with them at http://www.seculartherapy.org. RfR has an immense collection of well-curated resources available as you go through your journey, including resources for mental and physical crises, working with relationships, issues stemming from specific religions, coming out stories, and much more. Head to https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/resources for these helpful resources. Subscribe to the RfR Blog: https://medium.com/excommunications --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/recovering-from-religion/message

Michele Wiesner of Hire Heroes USA shares how her organization was given an “edge” when it comes to engaging volunteers during a pandemic and how they have been growing capacity through remote volunteering since 2005. Hire Heroes USA provides employment assistance services to thousands of transitioning military members each year. Through personalized service and support, they help veterans and military spouses get hired, and they help companies hire and retain them. As the director of capacity building, Michele leads a team of six full-time volunteer program managers who are responsible for engaging and supporting volunteers in their regions. As opposed to many volunteer-driven organizations who've had to pivot to online volunteerism, Hire Heroes has always operated this way.  Some staff, however, have had to make the transition from working in an office to working from home. Rather than making big changes during COVID, they had to make more subtle adjustments to their mature digital volunteer strategy.  And, staff have had to catch up with volunteers. In this episode, Michele shares how her team has made pivots and how they managed their exponential growth (triple the number of volunteer applications during COVID!) by focusing on building relationships, offering meaningful roles to supporters, and remaining flexible in their approach. For more information, visit https://www.hireheroesusa.org/ and all social channels @hireheroesusa. To explore volunteer opportunities with Hire Heroes, visit https://www.hireheroesusa.org/volunteer/. For More: For more info on preparing and supporting a fully remote volunteer team, check out Season 1 of the Time + Talent podcast, Episode 107: Digital Team Building with Remote Volunteers. Guest Bio: Michele WiesnerDirector, Capacity BuildingHire Heroes USA Michele Wiesner, Director of Capacity Building, is responsible for the growth, direction and results of service delivery support programs, including the Volunteer Program, Alumni Program and Referral & Training Partners Program. These support programs serve to increase organizational reach, influence,effectiveness and efficiency through partnerships and supporters.  Michele earned a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Georgia,and she also holds a Certification in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Michele joined Hire Heroes USA full time in 2012 as the organization's first Volunteer Coordinator, responsible for the creation of the Volunteer Program. She was promoted to Manager in 2013 and then to Director of the Volunteer Programin late 2015. In 2019, she took on the responsibility of serving as the Director of Capacity Building to strengthen our mission through productive partnerships.  She grew up in Georgia and currently resides just east of Athens with her husband, a veteran of the U.S. Army. You can find Michele at mwiesner@hireheroesusa.org or finer her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelewiesner/. For more on Michele's local professional association, the Georgia Association for Volunteer Administration, visit https://www.mygava.org/.

Community News and Interviews for the Catskills & Northeast Pennsylvania

In this episode, we speak with guest Heather Boyle, Director of Volunteer Services, about the substantial Volunteer Program at Montgomery Hospice and Prince George's Hospice. She describes the history of our program, our robust training, skills that help volunteers maintain morale and longevity in the field, and more.

On this episode of We Talk Health, Melissa Pipkin joins Will Kwasigroh and talks all about the Hospice Volunteer Program - a program offered by Hospice of West Tennessee. Melissa is the Volunteer Coordinator and can help anyone who may be interested in serving.  What exactly is the Hospice Volunteer Program? How can someone get involved?  Do you have to have a background check? All of these questions and more are answered. Tune in!If you're intersted in getting involved in the Hospice Volunteer Program, give Melissa a call at 731-541-4220. Hosts: Will KwasigrohSocial Media Coordinator Melissa PipkinVolunteer Coordinator 

    100 Things Howie Brought Into My World or The First 12 Years Howie Anniversary 100 things I didn't have before you.   The day I met you:   1. Some of our cats still lived in small runs in the parking lot and on concrete. 2. We had 10,000 visitors and were down 12% from the year before due to 9/11. 2002 3. We had never created an annual report.  2002 4. Our name was Wildlife on Easy Street and didn't say what we did.  2003 5. There was no prohibition on selling and transporting big cats across state lines. 2003 6. We had no audited statements and could not qualify for larger grants.  Our largest outside gift had been $10,000.  2003 7. Our gift shop was a single room in a 1970's trailer and our register was a tool box in a metal cage.  2003 8. Our front gate was a chain link panel that kept falling off the tracks.  2003 9. We had never had radio ads.  2003 10. No retailer had ever proudly announced they would cease to carry fur.  2004 11. People still defanged and declawed big cats to make them more pliable for cub handling.  2004 12. We didn't have proper zoning and were in danger of developers running us off.  2004 13. We didn't have an Admin branch of the Volunteer Program.  2004 14. We didn't have an Intern Program.  2004 15. We didn't have an Operant Conditioning Program.  2004 16. We didn't have an Education Director.  2004 17. We didn't have a Point of Sale program.  2004 18. We didn't have a way to connect our supporters to their lawmakers.  2004 19. Food prep was a truck body with one row of sinks, one row of tables, and 6 people slinging machetes.  We could only store a couple days' food.  2004 20. We didn't have a dumpster, so we had to carry hundreds of pounds of trash each day to the end of the street and clean up the mess made by people and animals.  2004 21. We had not yet been reviewed by Charity Navigator, but achieved their highest rating right out of the gate.  2004 22. There was no national conference for animal advocacy.  2005 23. We had never had a golf tournament.  2005 24. We needed to increase our budget for whole prey so we could rehab our first baby bobcat, named Faith.  2005 25. We didn't have a recycling program.  2005 26. We had never had a $10,000 in tours.  2005 27. We had no rear entrance and were trapped if a tree fell across Easy Street.  2005 28. We had never created and sold a Big Cat Calendar.  2005 29. We had never had a corporate giving campaign.  2005 30. We had never been able to qualify for the Federal Combined Federal Campaign.  2006 31. Ringling had never attempted a season without tiger acts.  2006 32. We had never been listed in Charity Guide's List of Volunteer Opportunities.  2006 33. YouTube didn't exist.  We had no regular video presence online.  2006 34. People were petting, hand feeding, swimming with and having their photos made with adult lions and tigers.  2007 35. It was still legal to walk lions, tigers, leopards and cougars on leashes in public.  2007 36. Federal rules were finally written to enforce the 2003 Captive Wildlife Safety Act.  2007 37. There had never been an online resource that showed where big cats were kept.  2007 38. The USDI had never defined a sanctuary as a place that did not buy, breed, sell, trade nor allow public contact.  2007 39. Florida did not require any sort of liability insurance or bond for Class I owners.  2007 40. We had never been able to rally advocates enough to halt a big cat exhibit at a fair.  2007 41. We had never been in U.S. News and World Report.  2007 42. We could not afford a proper cemetery nor memorial plaques for our cats.  2007 43. We had not been able to provide meaningful conservation funding for snow leopards, African wildlife nor South American ecosystems.  2007 44. We had never had our PSA's run on T.V.  2007 45. We didn't have a rehab cage that was state of the art.  2007 46. We didn't have worker's comp, so we only had 3 employees.  2008 47. No country had yet banned the use of big cats in circus acts.  2008 48. We had never been a finalist for CFO of the year.  2008 49. Our perimeter wall had been a hodgepodge of chain link until our first solid wall began to go up after 4 years of fundraising.  2008 50. We had never been featured in Encyclopedia Britannica before.  2008 51. There had never been a comprehensive study on captive tigers until TRAFFIC quoted us extensively in Paper Tigers.  2008 52. Our website had never been available in any language other than English.  2008 53. There was no law against killing wild animals by remote control over the Internet.  2008 54. Tony the truck stop tiger had never had a lawyer before.  Nor had any other exotic cat.  2008 55. We didn't have a Legacy Society and had not been effectively soliciting bequests.  2008 56. There was no Twitter.  2008 57. White tigers were all the rage because Siegfried & Roy were deceiving the public into thinking they were Royal White Bengal tigers and zoos were breeding them because the public would pay to see them.  2009 58. There were no written standards for sanctuary accreditation.  2009 59. We didn't have a consolidated Intranet site for storing documents, training staff & volunteers and recording animal records and observations.  2009 60. CITES had never clearly stated "operations breeding tigers on a commercial scale shall implement measures to restrict the captive population to a level supportive only to conserving wild tigers; tigers should not be bred for trade in their parts and derivatives. 14.69" after we funded the Tiger Coalition's presence.  2009 61. In Florida people could still have Cougars as pets.  2009 62. We didn't have FIOS high speed Internet.  2009 63. We didn't have security cameras.  2009 64. We didn't have a fenced parking lot to keep people from getting out of their cars and getting in trouble.  2009 65. We had never had a member voted Citizen of the Year by the chamber of commerce.  2009 66. We had never been able to afford a development person.  2009 67. We had never had a credit card program where our cats were featured and user's were able to donate with every purchase.  2009 68. Facebook didn't exist.  2009 69. The Florida Legislature had never had to force the Florida Wildlife Commission to enforce their own rule, re: the 10k bond for Class I animals.  2010 70. PetSmart had never taken a position and banned exotic cats from their stores in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.  2010 71. We had never won national awards for Best Non Profit.  2010 72. In Florida Bobcats could be legally used as bait in fenced areas where hunting dogs were trained to chase them down and rip them to shreds; all in the name of good, clean, family fun.  2010 73. There was no major animal welfare organization that understood the big cat crises was caused by cub handling.  2011 74. There was no one drawing the obvious line between cubs handled by tourists and lions killed in canned hunts.  Hardly anyone even knew what a canned hunt was, and even those who did, didn't know that exotic cats were killed that way.  2011 75. There had never been a coalition of major animal protection groups working together to save the tiger.  2011 76. We had never had a volunteer hour tracking system, like Volgistics, to accurately account for volunteer hours.  2011 77. We had a static website but needed a content management system.  2011 78. We had never won a new truck before.  2011 79. We had never hosted a sanctuary workshop before.  2011 80. We didn't have outside professionals on our board of directors.  2011 81. We didn't have a generator to protect our food supply.  2011 82. There was no Google Plus.  2011 83. Malls throughout the midwest had cub handling displays every week of the year.  2012 84. We didn't have an endowment fund.  2012 85. We didn't have a Public Relations Director.  2012 86. Oprah had never taken a stand on fur.  2012 87. No city had ever banned the sale of fur.  2012 88. There had never been a federal bill introduced that would ban the private possession and public handling of big cats and their cubs.  2012 89. We had never been the main sponsor of Taking Action for Animals.  2012 90. We had never been able to use solar power.  2012 91. We had never been able to pursue my first passion of saving domestic cats and kittens from euthanasia.  2013 92. We could never have even considered building a 2.5 acre play yard for the cats.  2013 93. We had no way to insure our tour guides were giving accurate and relevant tours until implementing the automated tour and Vox system.  2013 94. We had never orchestrated an advocacy Fly In to D.C.  2013 95. We had never gotten a million dollar judgment against one of the bad guys.  2013 96. I had to supplement Big Cat Rescue's payroll.  2013 97. No one had ever done a study on the state of captive big cats around the world.  2013 98. I had never been able to go to the Animal Care Expo.  2014 99. We had never had our own lobbyist.  2014 100. We had never been able to understand each other on our radios.  2014 101. We had never had our own X-ray and Sonogram equipment.  2014 102. We never had a sufficient barrier between us and urban sprawl.  2014 103. And there was no way I could do much about it because as of the day I met you the sanctuary had been running in the red every year and it was all I could do to keep the cats fed.   The day I met you:   • I suffered from chronic back pain, a psychosomatic symptom of feeling unsupported.  I can't remember any lasting back issues since I met you. • I'd never met a man who loved and supported me. • I'd never known what it was like to not feel frustrated and angry all the time.  I used to journal all the time to try and work out the anger, but have had no reason to write, since meeting you. • No one ever took me to the beach for my birthday. • I'd never had anyone make me coffee. • No one ever spoke from their heart about our love in front of an audience and got choked up when saying, “To love someone is to see the face of God."   I turned this into a printed book for Howie called The First Twelve Years.   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.

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If you want to build a successful volunteer program you have to be able to pivot, learn and move forward. We can't return to how things were before the pandemic. Going digital has completely changed the way people approach volunteering and we now have an opportunity to use that to grow our programs and try new things. Lori Gotlieb is one of the contributors of Volunteer Success, a resource hub and match-making site for volunteers and organizations to grow and connect. She shares how nonprofits can create more sustainable and successful volunteer programs. Connect With Lori www.lorigotliebconsulting.wordpress.com Email Lori lorig@volunteersuccess.com Learn More About Volunteer Success https://www.volunteersuccess.com/ Sign Up For Driven's Newsletter https://www.trustdriven.com/blogs

Did you know that Royal has a Volunteer Program that rewards our Members for volunteering in their communities? Learn more about this unique program and its perks from podcast hosts Cooper, Steve, and James. You can find more information or contact us to enroll at rcu.org/Volunteers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/royal-credit-union/message

When you think of volunteers for your nonprofit, what are you hoping they'll achieve for you?  Yes, of course there's no wages to pay but just like free puppies, there's a ton of work involved if you want any chance of success.  And if you're putting in that work, don't you want to get the most out of it?  Volunteer management guru - and yes I mean guru - Dana Litwin joins me to walk through at least half a dozen golden secrets to success with volunteer programs.  It may be seven or eight, we literally lost count! Find out more athttps://kevkhayat.com/ ( kevkhayat.com) and discover other episodes or register for the live podcasts at https://www.yot.me/ (yot.me) or athttps://nonprofitproblemsolver.com/ ( NonprofitProblemSolver.com). Expertly produced by Glen Munoz at PodProAudio,https://podproaudio.com/ ( https://podproaudio.com/)

In this edition, we had a chat with Frank Romo and Rachel Layko of the URISA Vanguard Cabinet. Learn more about their work to foster a thriving mentor network, within and beyond URISA. Matt Gerike of the URISA professional education committee hosts this episode.

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The Master Gardener Volunteer program started in Olympia, Washington. But did you know Florida's Master Gardener Volunteer Program originated from a conversation on a riverboat in Louisiana? Join us this month as we speak with Wendy Wilber, the statewide coordinator for Florida's Master Gardener Volunteer Program. During our time together we discussed the mission and vision of the statewide volunteer program. We also spent time highlighting the program's tremendous value to all Floridians. To learn more information about the statewide program click here. If you're interested in learning more about your county program or becoming a volunteer, reach out to your county coordinator. YouTube: UF/IFAS Extension Alachua County Facebook: UF IFAS Extension Alachua County Master Gardeners If you would like to reach out to any of the agents, feel free to send them an email or call our county extension office at (352)955-2402: Online Directory Follow us on your favorite podcast platform!!! Song: LiQWYD - Summer Nights (Vlog No Copyright Music) Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: https://youtu.be/Q1bBAEhDBBg Music by LiQWYD: http://www.soundcloud.com/liqwyd http://www.bit.ly/liqwyd-youtube http://www.instagram.com/liqwyd http://www.spoti.fi/2RPd66h http://www.apple.co/2TZtpeG http://www.patreon.com/LiQWYD --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/extensioncord/message

In this week's episode, Jon R. welcomes NHPCO's Judi Lund Person along with Stacy Groff, Vice President of Specialized Services at Tidewell Hospice. CMS is encouraging hospice programs to start rebuilding their volunteer programs in anticipation of the end of the public health emergency (and the 1135 waivers) on or around December 31, 2021. Judi and Stacy discuss what programs should be doing now to prepare, how leaders can empower their volunteer management staff as they work toward the 5% requirement, and utilizing MyNHPCO for support.

2005 Annual Report   Big Cat Rescue's Mission Statement:  To provide the best home we can for the animals in our care and to reduce the number of cats that suffer the fate of abuse, abandonment or extinction by teaching people about the plight of the cats, both in the wild and in captivity, and how they can help through their behavior and support of better laws to protect the cats.   Advances:  In 2005 the IRS reported that there are 964,000 registered charities in the U.S.  Only 81 of them qualify for and display the BBB Wise Giving Alliance Standards seal.  Big Cat Rescue is one of them. This seal confirms that the organization meets all 23 of the Standards for Charity Accountability. We have become so well known in the area, that our volunteers complain about wearing our logos in public because everyone loves us so much they just have to stop us and tell us so. Howie Baskin helped a Girl Scout troop organize our first Golf Tournament which netted 15,000.00. Invested in undercover surveillance equipment to shed light on the dirty truth behind the exhibition and exploitation of exotic cats.   Animal Care:  We added more whole prey to our cats' weekly diets and switched over to a prepared diet created by Natural Balance that improves their health via vitamin supplements. Faith the baby bobcat was upgraded to a much larger and more challenging Cat-a-tat where she had to learn to “out-fox” her food. Later, after completing her survival training, she was released onto 17,000 acres of pristine bobcat habitat.  President Jamie Veronica, and the interns track her weekly to insure that she is thriving on her own. We had to turn away 85 big cats that were no longer wanted by their owners but we rescued Snorkle the tiger from a circus owner and brought in tigers: India, Nyla, King, Princess and Narak from the circus. Rescued three baby mountain lions who were orphaned by a hunter in Idaho.  Their names are Artemis, Ares and Orion and they were neutered and spayed this year so that they can always stay together.   Staff and Volunteer Training:  Jamie Veronica got licensed by the state to be able to pick up injured or escaped wildlife.  In the past it had to be brought to us by someone who was so licensed .  Cathy Mayeski and Jen Rusczcyk completed the Clicker Training Expo in CA and now have 57 of our cats in the Operant Conditioning program. Jen organized and developed the Enrichment program making it one of the best in the country.   Jamie Veronica took the Intern Program to the next level and manages their housing, group activities and scheduling.  The Volunteer Committee re-wrote the Volunteer Program and the Intern Program and have updated ALL of our volunteers level of certification through testing. Some of our members attended the EARS training. (Emergency Animal Rescue Service) Hired green shirt Sharon Marszal to work filling orders for the gift shop and sent her to eBay training classes.  Read books on Non Profit Marketing, Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash to perfect our skills in these areas.   Education:  Our Education Director, Kathryn Quaas, is partnering with the Florida Aquarium to promote several joint efforts for schools and summer camps. We did legislative presentations to Stetson Law University on three occasions this year promoting a register to vote drive.  The Fur Ball CD of games, puzzles, screensavers and more were given to the 500 attendees with 300 extra being used as rewards for children who answer questions correctly during her presentations and field trips.   Howard began working with the Greenfund Network to create a joint venture in schools where kids turn in ink cartridges for recycling in bags that tell about Big Cat Rescue so that both their school and the sanctuary can benefit from the program.  Some kids may not care about raising money for scholarships, but they do care about saving tigers and this is a way to inspire them to keep these cartridges out of the landfills.   Filmed the rescue of three orphaned baby cougars with David Hurd Productions for use on the Animal Planet's new series that will be aired repeatedly, and thus help educate people about what is happening to their precious wildlife in the name of sport.  Six local libraries now stock our video, The Big Cat Picture in their documentary sections.   The portion of our web site that is devoted to education aimed at children through learning games has grown in leaps and bounds.  We added hundreds and hundreds of puzzles, free wallpapers, free screensavers and other educational activities that feature photos and drawings of the cats along with our message that “Exotic Animals Don't Make Good Pets!”  Began compiling worksheets and coloring pages for a educational handbook for students next year. Added FCAT lesson plans to our Teacher's Resource area. Used the Google grant to broadcast the availability of these teaching aids to students, their parents and teachers.  We participated in a study with Odd Cast that resulted in us being awarded 100,000 free streams for our Virtual Hosts.   Legislation:  Founder, Carole Baskin was unanimously elected to serve on the Board of the Humane USA Political Action Committee.  She was also appointed to the steering committee of the Florida Chapter of Humane USA. We enlisted the Florida Animal Control Association to help us approach the State of Florida in an effort to change the rules to better protect the animals and the public.  We were joined by HSUS and Humane USA in this endeavor and have asked the National Fraternity of Police Officers to join us as well. Carole was also appointed by Commissioner Brian Blair to serve on the Animal Advisory Committee and was elected secretary.  In November she was unanimously nominated to serve as Chair of the Animal Advisory Committee. We attended the Tampa Bay Partnership's Tampa Bay Day in Tallahassee and met with 25% of the state's legislators to ask for better animal protection laws.   We began promoting our Legislative portion of our web site that is dedicated to educating the public and legislators about animal welfare bills. 1,111,647 pages of bills were viewed by visitors.  We rallied support for the Federal bills to stop canned hunts with an aggressive online letter campaign to get people to ask their senators and representatives to co-sponsor this bill that would make it illegal to transport exotic animals across state lines for the purpose of injuring or killing them. We promoted hundreds of bills at the state and federal level. In just the first year we were responsible for 20,969 letters being sent to congress on behalf of the animals.   We launched our first online petitions and gathered 494 signatures on one to ban breeding and sale of exotic cats and 1878 signatures on 10 things we want legislators to know which includes the banning and breeding of exotic cats. We also launched our first online polls to see how people feel about issues such as animals in the circus, bobcats and cougars being hunted, exotic animal pets and more.  Response has been terrific and we are finding that roughly 85% of the public loves animals and want better laws to protect them and 90% do not want to see big cats being made to perform.   Attended AZA's Legislative session and Taking Action for Animals in Washington, DC.  Met with our Senators and Congressmen in D.C. and here locally to discuss the exotic animal issues. County Administrator, Pat Bean and Animal Services Director, Bill Armstrong both toured and interacted with the cats, learning about how we use operant conditioning for emergency preparedness.  We hosted tours for Hillsborough County Commissioners: Kathy Castor, Ronda Storms, Jim Norman, Ken Hagan, and for aids to Brian Blair and Mark Sharp.  We also toured Pinellas County Commissioners: Ronnie Duncan and Karen Seel.  We introduced these commissioners and State Representatives Kim Berfield and aids for Kevin Ambler along with team players for gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis so that they have a better understanding of why Florida needs laws to prevent the private ownership of dangerous exotic pets.   Requested that we be appointed to the state's Captive Wildlife Committee but were denied as the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission decided to comprise the committee of exotic pet owners.  State Legislators made it known later that the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission “had better fix this exotic animal problem or the legislature was going to get involved and FWCC was not going to like it.”  Began working on a memo with the help of former gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride's law firm that affirms a County's right to impose laws that do regulate exotic animal ownership as long as those laws do not single out exotic pet from other provisions that would apply to all.  In the past the Counties often thought they were helpless in the face of the constitutional amendment that had granted the Fish and Game agency the ability to act outside of the legislative process that all other states enjoy.   Fundraising and Marketing:  We had our first ever $10,000.00 day of tours and private tours in December.  Implemented our first direct mail campaign at Christmas with a request to support the three orphaned cougars.  We doubled the price of the Fur Ball tickets from 55.00 and 75.00 to 100.00 and 150.00 and raised a net of $60,000.00 (up from 40,465 last year) with only 500 attendees.  This enabled everyone to have a better time because there were no lines and our volunteers found it much easier to deal with 500 people at check out as opposed to 850 like we had last year at lower prices.  We discovered last year that at 55.00 we were just breaking even and for people for whom that was a lot of money we found that they did not spend money in the auctions so we had to evaluate whether the Fur Ball was a donor thank you party or a fundraiser and deciding it was the latter made the agonizing decision to double the price.   Opened an online store on eBay to reach a broader market with our logo's items and unique offerings. We tried MagFundraising.com for the first time and raised almost 3000.00 in magazine subscription commissions.  Our volunteers raised $3000.00 wrapping books at Borders Books.  Invested in Telosa's Donor Management software. We were given the front and back page of the Tampa Tribune's Commentary section and have been on several national programs including CNN, Fox, Animal Atlas on Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.   We purchased a second terminal for our Point of Sale system due to the overlap of tours beginning and ending in the gift shop.  In Jan our web site was averaging 170,000 hits per day and by the end of the year was reaching more than 300,000 hits per day with a surge to 744,000 hits per day thanks to a Google Adwords grant for unlimited advertising for three months. Cox radio gave us more than 100 on air spots to advertise the Valentine's Day wedding at Big Cat Rescue and gave us 300 more free advertising spots on air for our golf tournament on two stations. They also donated 300 spots for the Fur Ball.   Jamie Veronica's photos have been used in Biodiversity Magazine by Tropical Conservancy, and we created a Stock Photo portion of our website where featured artists donate their work and we sell the images online.  We set up Cafe Press and Zazzle sites to sell her images to raise money for the cats.  We were asked to apply for the WEDU's charity awards for our fundraising and marketing achievements.  The ink recycling program with Greenfund Network has succeeded far beyond our initial goals thanks to marketing the envelopes through our newsletter with now has a circulation of more than 35,000 homes.  We are candidates for the Webby Awards with the winner to be announced in 2006.   We created several video productions that tell viewers what we do including Orange Sky by Jamie Veronica and the Two Minute Tour by David Hurd.  In addition to this we created several new interactive slideshows including one called Born To Be Free that contrasts life in cages to life in the wild.  We started our first automatic direct deductions for banks and credit cards and a program with Albertson's where participating card carriers can have part of their purchases donated to us.  We created our first Big Cat Travel site that allows people to get the best Priceline prices on airfare, car and hotel rental, cruises and event tickets with the commissions paid to Big Cat Rescue.  Carole lost 17 more pounds with Matol and set up www.Matol-Diet.com so that others can lose weight, build their own home business and the commissions go to the cats as well. Volunteer Beth Stewart created and marketed a calendar of our sanctuary called Saving Big Cats.  This calendar was available at Amazon.com, Borders.com and BarnesAndNoble.com and we sold a number on site and on line as well.  The calendar was produced by TideMark Productions and featured photos of our cats for every month and their personal rescue stories.   With the help of Teasdale Worldwide Howard Baskin created our first formal Corporate Sponsorship program, both in general and for the Fur Ball.  We held special kid's tours after Thanksgiving and Christmas and were packed and got a lot of good press coverage for doing something for the kids.  We were in the press 48 times in 2005 and many of these were interviews with Scott Lope.  We were in Glamour Magazine twice, on CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Inside Edition and were instrumental in providing background information for Parade Magazines' piece on the exotic pet trade and for ABC's Prime Time that should air next year.  We have a PSA that was made jointly with the Girl Scouts of America that is airing nationally to encourage young people to get involved and do something good in their community.  We ended the year with money in the bank to begin building our Big Cat Lodge.   Grounds Improvement:  Completed two more tiger Cat-a-tats for the circus tigers in case of emergency. New Cat-a-tats were built for cougars; Mack and Cleo along with hurricane proof dens for each of them.  Cages were reshaped and room additions built for Caracals; Rusty & Sassy and Cachinga & Cachanga.  The same was done for the Serval; Alpha, Bobcats; Alex & Windsong and Banshee.  In addition many of the cats got hammocks, swinging platforms, secondary dens just to play in and Alex & Windsong got a new fort.  Tonga was moved and his old roofless cage was turned into a temporary playground for the three orphaned cougars.   The E-Center was whimsically painted to look like a leopard and the Cabins were painted by volunteer Julie Hanan to look like a tiger.  Butterfly gardens were added by Kathryn Quaas and the kids of summer camp to the Cabin area.  We moved the cavies off the tour route to a much larger enclosure and tore down the old otter cages that they had lived in on the lake.  The area was cleared so that there is a beautiful view of the lake and the tigers and lions beyond now.   Brought in a new Intern home that is a 4BR/2BA and Vern built a deck that is perfect for socializing after a long day of cat chores. Cleared all Brazilian Peppers from the back forty and built a road around the cell tower to make the back parcel more accessible. This area required heavy clearing and then bush hogging of dog fennel and some fill over the concrete to turn it into a lovely park like area.  Stood falling wall back up. Weeded and planted ferns at the beach. Began massive clean up of Styrofoam from lake banks. Bought a new shed for the two new golf carts and a new riding mower.  Added lots of filing cabinets and storage cabinets to the gift shop and office. The fenced waiting area had a cola machine, waterfall and lots of landscaping and mulching added to create a nice place for guests to wait for their tours.  Donor recognition signs were added to this area.   Bought three more acres for alternate access and parking and cleared the land of dog fennel so that we can keep it mowed.  Took on debt for the first time in our history with the purchase of this land.  Began negotiations with Outback and the County on building a multi use Education and Conference Center called the Big Cat Lodge.  Unveiled the new conceptual drawings of this improvement created by Collman and Karsky with help from Genesis at the Fur Ball. Applied for a Planned Development for this additional 3 acres to give us cross access, parking and 6 more residences for interns and volunteers.   Helping Others:  We invited other animal welfare groups to use our Legislative tools in customized banners on their web sites so that they could encourage their visitors to write their representatives about important animal welfare issues. We hosted the Alzheimer's Memory Walk for 600 walkers who raised 50,000 for Alzheimer's victims. Worked with PAKT to help them negotiate a deal with the circus and AZA for promoting responsible, life time care for animals who have had to work for a living. Continued to help ACT by driving the Spay Day trailer each month so that 100-160 cats per month can be spayed.   Charities that we donated to this year in the form of Free Passes to our sanctuary:  100 passes to No More Homeless Pets Adopt-a-thon 30 passes and gift certificate for a Big Cat Expedition to Florida Voices for Animals, Donated a Big Cat Expedition, a Feeding Tour and more to Animal Coalition of Tampa for their Some Enchanted Evening fundraiser and the same again to their Stride For Strays walk-a-thon. Donated the use of our facility to the Humane Society of Tampa Bay for their Volunteer Appreciation party and to National Humane Society for their volunteer and donor recognition party at Christmas. Donated an Expedition and Two for One Passes to SPOT and worked with them to create a segment on Pinellas County's Public Access Channel. Hosted a party for a team of Florida Panther protectors.   We raised 1250.00 each for EARS and HSUS to aid the animal victims of Katrina and 1000.00 each for conservation programs to save the margay in Brazil, to help start an eco tourism lodge in Guyana and to assist Lewa in Africa.   Other:  Gave a private tour to Toronto Blue Jay's Shea Hillenbrand. Customized a golf cart for hurricane use by creating a cat-proof cage to drop down over the carriage so that we can access any part of the property in the event of a cat being loose.   In a year when tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes ravaged the globe and other sanctuaries, even good ones, found themselves considering the euthanasia of their animals rather than let them starve due to the drop in donations we were able to thrive.  We are thankful to our staff and volunteers who worked tirelessly to make this possible and to all of our donors and visitors who kept our cats fed in these worst of times.   The saddest news is that we now have to turn away nearly 100 exotic cats every year, because we cannot afford to take in all of them that are being bred and sold into the entertainment, pet and zoo industries.  The most common victims are Lions, Tigers, Cougars, Servals, Caracals and Bobcats.  We are now devoting more time to raising awareness and trying to get laws enacted that will protect these magnificent creatures from man.   The mission has evolved from just saving the cats that ended up in places like fur farms, hunting ranches and auctions, to making a difference on a global scale. People who come here and spend time with our cats are transformed.  I hear, over and over again, how people feel like their lives were changed forever by knowing these animals on such a personal level.  Many times I have heard visitors say, “I looked into that cat's eyes, and I saw God!”   For many of them, it is the first time that they have ever felt that they were intimately connected with the rest of creation.  It is a wake up call that we are all ONE.   It is my dream to integrate the beauty and majesty of the great cats with the inner awakening we can enhance in our visitors.  By making people more aware, we can make the world a better place.   Our Officers and Board of Directors • President Jamie Veronica (not compensated by BCR) • Vice President & BOD Cathy Mayeski (not compensated by BCR) • Secty/ Treasurer  Vernon C. Stairs (not compensated by BCR) • Director and Coordinator Brian Czarnik (not compensated by BCR) These members met for monthly board meetings.   Paid Staff: • Operations Manager  Scott Lope (compensated but not a member of the board) • Gift Shop Manager Cynthia Montayre (compensated but not a member of the board) • Administrative Sharon Marszal (compensated but not a member of the board)  

In this episode, hosts Gremi (Grace and Emi) of Helping Hands Humane Society interview coworker Katie Jesseph, Volunteer and Off-Site Coordinator. You'll learn all about our volunteer program - how to get started, what volunteers do at HHHS, changes we've had to make during COVID-19 - as well as how Katie got started in this work and her experiences and favorite parts of the job so far (spoiler alert: she adopted a Poodle which is a rare and amazing thing at HHHS!). If you have any questions about the volunteer program, please email Katie at katiej@hhhstopeka.org. For questions, stories, comments, or feedback regarding the podcast, don't hesitate to get in touch at gracec@hhhstopeka.org or emig@hhhstopeka.org. Thanks for listening!

This week on The Aid Station, Trailblazer edition, we talk to Nicole Lockwood, Manager Volunteer Program at Chicago Event Management and the MPW Trailblazer for North America. Nicole has taken advantage of COVID to immerse herself in other functional areas to gain a wholistic view of the company and events such as the Chicago Marathon and Shamrock Shuffle. Apart from her obvious desire to serve and help others her initiative has created the opportunity to progress her career and also have a clear understanding of the needs of each department when allocating volunteers. One of the wonderful opportunities of COVID is the chance to learn discover new skills in both our business and personal lives. Learn more about Nicole's journey and hear some inspirational volunteer stories in this video: https://youtu.be/rPrqhTQeNko #TheAidStation #MassParticipationWorld

Conversation focuses on our Volunteer Program and the positive impact they have on our students, staff and schools.

   In today’s episode, we visit with Suzanna Leff, one of the cofounders of Finca Amrta, a permaculture farm in the South Pacific region of Costa Rica.  Suzanna has been running her volunteer program for over 30 years and has been able to keep it full, almost exclusively by word of mouth.  We discuss topics like, how to find volunteer managers and administrative support, helping guests find their passions, and how to keep people engaged and happy.   If you enjoy the podcast, make sure to subscribe and leave a rating and short review wherever you listen to podcasts.  It takes less than a minute, and it really makes a difference in helping to spread the word about our mission to others looking to improve their own projects. This episode is brought to you by, well, YOU!  I haven’t built up my audience enough to have attracted sponsors and all that, so even though it’s the holiday season, you get to support the show without my selling you stuff.  Isn’t that great!   So, instead of buying an organic cotton shirt or an online course, maybe you can just buy me a coffee!    Go to https://ko-fi.com/sharinginsights to drop a few dollars in the bucket and let me know you care. To follow more of Finca Amrta’s adventures in homesteading, check out:The companion video to this episode, where we explore her organic gardens, greenhouse, and food dryer - https://youtu.be/3WOeAYZlKjE Finca Amrta’s Website - http://fincaamrta.com/  FB - https://www.facebook.com/fincaamrta/  Email - amrtasa@yahoo.com   Other recommendations from Suzanna: Nonviolent Communication Training - https://www.cnvc.org/  Volunteer Latin America - https://www.volunteerlatinamerica.com/ Special thanks to Ariel Poltronieri for editing this episode!   Music: Rite of Passage by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4291-rite-of-passage License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Follow Sharing Insights: https://sharinginsights.net Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/sharinginsightspod  Instagram: https://instagram.com/sharinginsightspod  Twitter: https://twitter.com/sharingipodcast  Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCqV63Fonev-y25FVSjGDvCg 

Fremantle Ports has introduced a volunteering program, ‘Friends of Fremantle Ports’. The program’s purpose is to inform and educate the public about port operations and contribute to the further activation of Victoria Quay. Being aware there was a keen interest in how ports functioned and also in Victoria Quay generally, Fremantle Ports ran a series of four ‘Port Walks’ in 2019 which were immediate sell-outs. The ‘Friends’ program increases the organisation’s capacity to meet this need, in a cost-effective and engaging manner. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are many health benefits to being outside and  involved  in physical activities.Latinos are underrepresented in sponsored recreational and outdoor activities.Latinos Outdoors sponsor outdoor and physical activities for Latino families and youth.Latino Outdoors are responding to Covid19 by going to virtual activities and small group activities.Latino Outdoors, depends on volunteers,  if you want to volunteer or donate contact Latinooutdoors.org 

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Stepping outside of your comfort zone can often be intimidating, but Elle Kehoe, the Vice President, Volunteer Program and Event Strategy at Miami Super Bowl Host Committee, has always pushed herself to do that and that’s where she’s found success.  It’s even landed her roles with the Super Bowl and the Olympics! She expresses to Jahaan why you should take advantage of every opportunity you’re given, how to create opportunities for yourself and why you should always work harder than the person next to you.  If you need inspiration to pave the way for yourself in the competitive sports industry, Elle’s journey will motivate you to go after what you want.   Connect with Elle:  Email: ellerkehoe@gmail.com   Links:  www.miasbliv.com   Connect with Jahaan:  Instagram: www.instagram.com/jahaanblake/ Email: jblake@thejblakegroup.com Website: www.thejblakegroup.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jahaanblake/   Produced by: Stephani Young Music featured in this episode is Business Invention by Krzysztof Rzeznicki/Lynne Publishing used under license through NeoSounds.

Volunteer vigilante? Balderdash? In this episode, Adam Janes, CVA shares his thoughts on volunteer management during the Covid 19 pandemic. Adam discusses care mongerers, changes in policies, virtual volunteer roles, how to help volunteers utilize video, and what comes next for the volunteer management sector. Adam highlights the "what we can do now" mantra, even during volunteer appreciation week. Adam also shares how he will adopt some changes going forward. About Adam: Adam is an up and coming leader of Volunteers and a community advocate for all things volunteering. He currently leads the Volunteer Program at Christie Lake Kids, a local charity that helps at-risk youth and children. www.christielakekids.com. Adam is currently on the Ottawa Administrators of Volunteer Resources Board as the Membership Coordinator www.oavr.ca. He is a member of the Beyond the Bake Sale, a platform that looks to innovate and celebrate how people invest their time, talent and treasure for the causes they care about. www.btbs.caAdam is an up and coming writer and workshop facilitator taking on assignments at a local and provincial level.When he is not engaging volunteers, Adam is happy to be called Daddy and is married to a wonderful wife.Find Adam at:https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-janes-876a9832/and check out the awesome work at Christie Lake Kids' Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/ChristieLakeKids/

Director of Park Visioning at Park Pride Andrew White is in studio for today's episode of Atlanta Real Estate Radio. Co-hosts Carol Morgan and Todd Schnick welcome White on this segment of Around Atlanta Radio to discuss the Park Pride initiative, past and ongoing projects and ways to help the community. White is a registered landscape architect who moved to Georgia 10 years ago. White originally moved to Georgia to attend graduate school for landscape architecture at the University of Georgia. After earning his degree, he moved to Atlanta and has been in the city ever since. Park Pride is a nonprofit organization celebrating 30 years of operation. The organization works with several communities to help and elevate spaces around Atlanta. The Georgia capital has over 350 parks within its limit, meaning Atlanta residents can visit a new park every day for almost an entire year. The abundance of parks in the city not only helps to provide a beautiful and welcoming space for everyone to enjoy, but they also aid in several health benefits for those who visit as well. “Parks are good for people,” said White. “It's good for their health, parks help lower blood pressure and they are good for stress. Thay are also good for the community. Parks are a place where people can come together, meet neighbors and strengthen those social bonds. Parks are also great for the environment. They are good for the water, they help lower the temperature and keep the air clean. There are a number of benefits that come from parks.” Park Pride has several programs to help aid in its goals of keeping Atlanta beautiful. One program, the Park Visioning Program, acts similar to a grant program. Instead of granting money, it grants professional design programs free of charge. This helps community groups stay on the same page and articulate a shared vision for their specific neighborhood park. Park Pride also has a Volunteer Program, Grant Program and various other support programs. Park Pride recently wrapped up a project in Kathryn Johnston Memorial Park. This three-and-a-half acre-park is a multipurpose area that experiences a lot of localized flooding in the surrounding spaces. Years ago, the streams adjacent to the park were used as a deposit for waste, making them de facto sewers over time. Eventually, the streams were covered and built on top of, leaving nowhere for runoff and excess rain to go. Katheryn Johnston Memorial Park helps to capture stormwater and takes it offline, helping low-lying areas from being overwhelmed by runoff. Park Pride is currently helping support Mattie Freeland Park. This small green space only occupies less than an acre of space and was recently transformed by the community. Members of the neighborhood saw a rundown lot filled with old cars and junk and transformed it into a beautiful park for everyone to enjoy. The community has been working to develop this city greenspace for almost 13 years, and recently joined forces with Park Pride to turn it into a real City of Atlanta park. In addition to smaller local park projects, Park Pride is also working on a much larger scale initiative. In conjunction with the City of Atlanta, the nonprofit organization is working to double the Atlanta greenspace overtime. “This is the citywide comprehensive plan,” said White. “The purpose of that plan is to really set the priorities for the parks department for the city of Atlanta and to help them strategically think about everything from new acquisitions to operations and maintenance to staffing. Park Pride is working with them on the community engagement piece of that.” Because Park Pride has been working in Atlanta for 30 years, they have an extensive network of supporters. The organization has several park boosters and supporters that work in their own neighborhoods. Park Pride can leverage this support to help communities' voices be heard. To learn more about Park Pride or to find out how you can help,

Helping to create a positive culture of volunteering in many organisations can be tough work for leaders of volunteer engagement. How do you ensure that volunteers feel valued by everyone, from the CEO and board down to the front-line staff? How do you have an impact on strengthening the value and impact of volunteerism when you, as a leader, already feel invisible or unheard?Tracey O’Neill, Manager of Volunteer Engagement at Austin Health in Melbourne, Australia discusses the strategies she has employed to strengthen the culture and buy-in for volunteering across her large health service. From the small-scale, easy things she did as a nervous newcomer, to the more bold and brave approaches she has harnessed in recent years as she has gained skills, knowledge, confidence, support and credibility.Tracey is a passionate advocate for the strategic engagement of volunteers and for professionalizing volunteer management because she believes volunteers change the world, and sustainable effective volunteering happens when supported by skilled leaders of volunteer engagement. Listen to Tracey speak further on advocacy in volunteer leadership in this Volunteering Victoria webinar alongside volunteer engagement colleague, Ang Cuy, Active Executive Director Youth Services, YMCA Victoria and Volunteering Victoria Sector Development Manager, Sara Sterling, by registering here. You can find links to other Volunteering Victoria webinars for leaders of volunteer engagement here.Read Tracey’s blog, Volunteer Village, here. Volunteer Village is a place for leaders of volunteer engagement across the globe to share our stories about the impact of volunteers, the vital nature of our roles and why our organisations, governments and communities should support and resource effective and transformative volunteer management.Find Shawn Callahan and Mark Schenk’s podcast, Anecdotally Speaking, here, where they share business stories and talk about why it works and where you might tell it at work. Get some great ideas for how you can grow your story bank.Tracey can be contacted at volunteervillage@outlook.com or tracey.oneill@austin.org.au, or at her LinkedIn page; https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracey-o-neill-cva-57447b20/

How do you evolve your volunteer program for the volunteers of tomorrow whilst meeting the needs of your volunteers today? Sam Clift, Volunteer Resource Manager at London Transport Museum talks through achieving senior management buy-in, involving volunteers in strategy planning, getting volunteers on board with organisational change and using technology and volunteer support to make volunteering more accessible and inclusive. Sam can be contacted at sam.clift@ltmuseum.co.uk or alternatively at his LinkedIn page: http://linkedin.com/in/sam-clift-0363a821Tips I learned from Sam:Court senior manager buy-in by chiming with their priorities. Keep volunteer value continuously in view.Technology can be embraced by volunteers.One change can create looking at other ways to change and grow.Use incentives to make changes more palatable.Involve volunteers in strategic roles.Be honest about limitations.Elevate volunteers to mentor roles.Find new ways to embrace inclusion.Meet challenges head-on.

A new program, in collaboration with the Victorian government, called "Empowring Serbian people in need of palliative care" is looking at ways of improving the lives of older generation Serbs in Australia. - Удржење српске заједнице Аустралије из Мелбурна већ годину дана сарађује са владом те државе у оквиру пројекта палијативне неге под називом "Empowering Serbian people in need of palliative care" и окупљања волонтера у оквиру тог пројекта. Координатор удружења Марина Челебић рекла нам је опширно о томе.

Joan Maxwell grew up in rural Fairfield, NC. She graduated from Mattamuskeet High School and the University of North Carolina, where she received a BA in history. She is married to Owen Maxwell and together they currently reside in Edenton, NC. In 1988, Joan and Owen founded Regulator Marine in an abandoned A&P Grocery Store in Edenton. Regulator is now operating in an 121,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility and is one of the most well-respected brands in the boating industry. Joan and her team transitioned Regulator Marine from a job shop/manufacturing process to a highly sophisticated lean manufacturing process. Under Joan’s leadership, Regulator received ISO 9000:2008 certification, as well as the North Carolina Department of Labor’s top safety award, the North Carolina Star. In a historically male dominated industry, Joan remains active in the boating industry’s leading organization, the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), where she served as the first female Chairperson and currently remains on the Boat Divisional Manufacturer’s Board while also serving on the NMMA’s Board. Joan focuses on learning innovative ways to improve the business that God has entrusted to her care. Currently, she is a member of C12, a Christian based leaders’ roundtable that focuses on building better businesses for a greater purpose. Joan Maxwell demonstrates and demands from her leadership team at Regulator Marine a high level of integrity and positive leadership. Her service is evident in her dedication to not only Regulator Marine, but also to the local community in which Regulator is located. Joan established a Volunteer Program at Regulator Marine which pays employees their regular wages during working hours while they volunteer their time and services to various local organizations of their choosing. In 2018, Joan established the “In His Service” program at Regulator, which oversees Regulator’s charitable giving, as well as its employee emergency assistance fund. Joan’s passion is to personally live out Regulator’s core values and to lead her team to do the same. Some of Joan’s past accomplishments include: receiving the 2018 Hammond Marine Industry Leadership Award along with her friend Kris Carroll; the Darlene Briggs Marine Woman of the Year Award and the National Association of Manufacturer’s STEP award. In the late 1990’s she worked with Erskine Bowles (former Chief of Staff for President Clinton) when both he and she were appointed to the North Carolina Rural Prosperity Taskforce by then-Governor of North Carolina, Jim Hunt. In 2004, Regulator and the Maxwells were recognized by President George H. W. Bush when they were invited to the White House along with three other businesses from across the country to discuss the needs of small businesses. In addition, she served as a past Chairman of the Edenton, North Carolina Chamber of Commerce, recognized as Chamber Person of the Year and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Edenton Chowan Partnership – focusing on economic development. “I really believe each of us is on a journey. Those things poured into me by my parents – especially my dad – led me to the place that I am today. When I was a little girl, I’d read my Bible and when I didn’t understand I’d go to my dad to explain it. He was a great man of faith, who in his 77 years of life taught me how to both live and to die. I am humbled each day to have been his daughter. My mother was a wonderful kind person that loved and shared. There were many times we’d sit down for Thanksgiving lunch with people who were not family – just someone she knew needed to feel the love of a family on that holiday...What I have come to know and understand is that I am a beloved daughter of God. I don’t have to have all the answers. What I get the privilege of doing is praying, listening and as difficult as it is for someone who wants to “fix it” and move along – to wait on God’s perfect plan."

Asim Baig, Ironman triathlete and MSHP Volunteer, and Emily Weinger, MSHP Program Coordinator, share how Mount Sinai uses volunteers to support population health efforts. Asim also shares his inspirational story and how he uses the support he receives from volunteers as motivation to volunteer himself.

We have outlined a plan for you to start a volunteer program for your online community to increase participation and create more loyalty.

One of the best ways to get consistent interaction in your online community is to build a strong volunteer program to support your members. It also helps you to manage the needs of the community. No community is built by one person. In today’s episode, we talk about the types of people who make great volunteers and how to get them involved. Podcast show notes available at https://communitiesthatconvert.com/episode97

For those of us in public service, it can feel like the weight of the world rests on your shoulders. With an unending mission of providing essential services to all reaches of our local populations, it’s good to know that there’s a helpful group of residents ready to get their hands a little dirty- literally. In this episode of Local Gov Life, we sat down with a handful of ICMA Members at our 2018 Annual Conference to weigh in on volunteerism and provide some useful tips on how you can start building a successful volunteer program in your community. Discussing some of the programs volunteers in their communities have assisted with, how to keep them engaged, and knowing when to take a step back, we promise this episode is worth a listen (or two, or four). If you’ve been looking for ways to get your residents active and volunteering, this is one podcast you won’t want to miss. About ICMA ICMA’s vision is to be the leading association of local government professionals dedicated to creating and supporting thriving communities throughout the world. We do this by working with our more than 12, 000 members to identify and speed the adoption of leading local government practices to improve the lives of residents. ICMA offers membership, professional development programs, research, publications, data and information, technical assistance, and training to thousands of city, town, and county chief administrative officers, their staffs, and other organizations throughout the world. Find out more about ICMA, and the profession, at our website: http://www.icma.org Follow us on Social Media! Twitter: http://twitter.com/icma Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ICMAORG/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/icma Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/icmaorg/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ICMAvideos

Listen to Harlem trailblazer, Vivienne O'Neill, as she talks food need in Harlem and more, with host Danny Tisdale, on The Danny Tisdale Show.Vivienne O'Neill, Director of Volunteer Program, Citymeals on Wheels is Meals on Wheels-type nonprofit organization in New York City that raises private funds to ensure no homebound elderly from Harlem to Hollis Queens. Since 2005. She vastly expanded the volunteer program – providing opportunities to get involved in any of the five boroughs – and helped to launch our Friendly Visiting program, which brings volunteers into the homes of our meal recipients for weekly in-person visits. She helped to develop Citymeals' corporate volunteer program and expanded our handmade card program. She also oversees our Senior Chat and Senior Script programs through which volunteers call and write letters to seniors, all while coordinating meal deliveries by volunteers of all ages. When Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012, she organized more than 860 volunteers who braved the storm's aftermath to deliver 64,595 emergency meals to seniors stranded in their homes. With the senior population in New York City expected to increase 40% by 2040, Viv ensures Citymeals is responding to the growing need of those who are facing hunger and loneliness. She spearheads key aging initiatives, including training volunteers to identify signs of Alzheimer's and elder abuse among meal recipients. In some cases, her volunteers have saved the lives of meal recipients. In 2017, Vivienne received a Front Line Hero award from New York Nonprofit Media.  https://www.citymeals.org SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: www.youtube.com/harlemworldmagazine.comwww.facebook.com/harlemworldmagazine.comwww.harlemworldmagazine.com Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/theharlemworldmagazinepodcast)

Learn about the Sea Crest Hospice Volunteer program and how you can get involved.

This week I gave a speech on managing volunteer programs. Volunteers in Disaster Service are a huge part of our national response. And you need to plan for having them. As the old saying if you build it they will come. Well in the world of disasters, if you have one they will come.LinksLinkedIn: https: https://www.linkedin.com/company/em-weekly/Twitter:‏ https://twitter.com/EM_WeeklyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/emweekly/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/em_weekly/ AdvertisersTitan HST https://www.titanhst.com/The Blue Cell http://www.thebluecell.com/

Today Jonathan sits down with David McClain, the leader of the National Volunteer Program within Word of Life. Listen in as David shares his story and reveals how the Lord changed his heart and outlook on his personal walk with the Lord. God has and is continuing to use David in a mighty way! Here you can learn how you too can be a part of the National Volunteer Program and get involved with the ministry of Word of Life in an amazing way!

Master Gardeners Volunteer Program

On this week's episode of the Nobodies Are Somebodies podcast, it's focused on continuing April awareness month, and this week it's a tribute to National Volunteer Week, with my unpaid agent Denise Hawken who runs a Volunteer Program at her paid job, and she talks about what happens during this full 7 days of recognition for her volunteers, and what Volunteer Week really means to her and the staff she manages Want to learn more? Visit: http://www.volunteer.ca  

SubjectACT Executive Producer Becca Posterino invites some inspiring ACT women to share their stories. Becca meets Kay Howell who retells her experience of breast cancer with good humour and positivity. Becca also speaks to Caroline McIntyre, Manager of Volunteer Program at Canberra Region Cancer Centre based at the Canberra Hospital about the significance of volunteer support for patients and their families. Finally Becca meets Sally Saunders of volunteer organisation - Bosom Buddies to explore the vital role these volunteers offer the ACT community.

Meet Jens Behrendt, the Deputy HR Director at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE. In this episode he shares excellent career advice and personal stories from working in various organizations and places around the world, such as being taken hostage in Ghana. “Sometimes you’re walking a thin line. But it did not change my commitment or determination to work for international organizations”, Jens says. Listen to an interview packed with food for thought for your career and get personal insight on what international organizations do and deliver. What’s it like to work for OSCE – the largest regional security organization in the world? On risks and security aspects working in areas that are high risk and hostile How you establish your brand as a professional The need to find a balance between work and personal life The most common mistakes people make during interview (Tip: be prepared to give a two minute selling pitch of what you are as a professional!) Entry points for a successful career, like UN’s JPO and Volunteer Program

In which our heroes join the DCP, get slaughtered on the job and have our lifeless corpses turned into half robots, half mans and all cops. We look at how important our dicks are, reminisce about that one robot that commits suicide in the second film (maybe?), and imagine an aged Robocop going through Alzheimer’s. Jackson points out that robotics and cybernetics are two completely different schools of science, Zammit doesn't understand why they don't use remote controlled ED-209s, and Duscher just forgives the film for any minor or major flaw because Robocop. So say goodbye to your human existence, choof off all those superfluous body parts and shoot a rapist in the dick because either way, dead or alive, you're coming with me. Want to help Robocop regain his humanity and more importantly, his penis? Head to http://www.patreon.com/sanspantsradio and for as little as $1 a month, you can help make a huge difference in his robomarriage. And don’t forget to get your free audible book download and a 30 day free trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/SanspantsRadio there’s probably at least sixty books about office party decorum. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Volunteering at The Lost Dogs’ Home Between 1995 and 2010, the estimated number of people volunteering across Australia has doubled. This upwards trend comes as good news to organisations, like The Lost Dogs’ Home, that value the role volunteers play in their day-to-day operations. To mark International Volunteers Day on December 5 and to find out how to get involved, we speak with the Elena Calodoucas, the Home’s volunteer coordinator and Jan, a long term volunteer at the Home.

   Join LLN Reports Thursday, 11/29 at 3 pm as they interview Beth Lye of WINGS - Giving Flight to Hopes & Dreams  Beth Lye has been a non-profit professional for the past 9 years. For the past 5 of those, she has been at The WINGS Program in Chicago's suburbs.For the past 5 of those, she has been at The WINGS Program in Chicago's suburbs.  Beth is the Manager of the Volunteer Program where she makes connections between the WINGS employees and the 250 people who are part of the organization as volunteers. Previously, she taught English to adults in Chicago, Africa, and Japan. She has a Masters Degree in Education from DePaul University.  The mission of WINGS is to provide a continuum of integrated services in an effort to end domestic violence and homelessness one family at a time.  http://www.wingsprogram.com/  Housing/Emergency Shelter or to get information about available services:  847-221-5680 (24 hour hotline)  www.linkedlocalnetwork.com 

  Join LLN Reports Thursday, 11/15 at 3 pm as they interview Beth Lye of WINGS - Giving Flight to Hopes & Dreams  Beth Lye has been a non-profit professional for the past 9 years.  For the past 5 of those, she has been at The WINGS Program in Chicago's suburbs.    Beth is the Manager of the Volunteer Program where she makes connections between the WINGS employees and the 250 people who are part of the organization as volunteers.  Previously, she taught English to adults in Chicago, Africa, and Japan.  She has a Masters Degree in Education from DePaul University.    The mission of WINGS is to provide a continuum of integrated services in an effort to end domestic violence and homelessness one family at a time.  http://www.wingsprogram.com/  Housing/Emergency Shelter or to get information about available services:   847-221-5680 (24 hour hotline)  www.linkedlocalnetwork.com 

Anthony Garza Jr. is the supervisor of horticulture and grounds at the botanical garden. He runs a class on horticultural methods and is responsible for the transition to more organic methodologies at the garden.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Hi, this is Rick. We edited this file on April 30th, 2013 in order to fix file upload problems we had within earlier copy Speaker 2: spectrum's. Next then Speaker 3: [inaudible].Speaker 4: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and [00:01:00] technologists. Speaker 5: My name is Rick Karnofsky. Brad swift and I are the host of this show. Today. We are pleased to speak with Anthony Garcia jr who will discuss the UC botanical garden at Berkeley. He's the supervisor of horticulture and grounds at the botanical garden and oversees a large number of employees there. He runs a class on horticultural methods and is responsible for the transition to more organic methodologies at the garden, including the recent adoption of compost tea. Speaker 1: Anthony Garza Junior. [00:01:30] Welcome to spectrum. Thanks for having me. Brad. Give us a, an overview of your responsibilities at the botanical garden. Sure. I'm the supervisor of horticulture and grounds and so I work very closely with [inaudible]. My boss who is the associate director of collections and horticulture and our director. I supervise about 10 area horticulturists. Okay. A lead building, maintenance employee, and a groundskeeper. [00:02:00] And I do a lot of interfacing with physical plant campus services here to support the infrastructure at the garden. I run a class called horticultural methods, which is IB one 12 l. Yeah. So I'm all over the place doing a lot of things. So it keeps it interesting every day. Speaker 1: How old is the garden? How, what's the history of the garden? Sure. The garden actually started down here on campus. I have an old black and white picture, my office of Palms and bananas and, and other interesting [00:02:30] plants out in front of I believe North or South Hall. Well that was pre 1930 because the gardens started moving up the hill, uh, to its current site, which is a former sheep and cattle farm in 1929. So it's been there that long. We actually have collections, uh, plant collections in the garden, say from the new world desert that date from the early thirties that are still alive. What's your favorite place in the garden? [00:03:00] Oh, that's hard to say. The garden is such a beautiful place and there are several spots where when you're up in the canyon you have views of the Golden Gate Bridge, um, which is unique to University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Speaker 1: I'd have to say my favorite place is probably out in the farthest reaches of the collection in the Mesoamerican or the Mexican and Central American collection because it, it's sort of wedged down in, uh, [00:03:30] Strawberry Canyon. So he can be out in that collection among plants from, uh, Mexico and feel like you're really out in habitat and cause you're seeing very little other built structures around you. It's, it's a really fine collection and probably the least visited because it's the furthest out from the front entrance. Is there any activity that the garden does to try to preserve certain species? Yes, absolutely. Might be in danger. Most of that work is, has been done just because of where [00:04:00] we are here in California with California native plants. And a lot of that conservation work is done by our curator, Holly Forbes and Barbara Keller. And, uh, for example, uh, there are several, uh, there's a recent case of a, an Arctic staphylococci or, uh, a Manzanita California Manzanita being rediscovered, uh, in the Presidio on Doyle drive. Speaker 1: They were, um, doing some road construction and found one individual, a plant that [00:04:30] was thought to be gone. And so, uh, that plant was before it was dug up and moved to another side and the Presidio, a bunch of cuttings were taken a vegetative cuttings. So we were involved in that and we received a lot of those cuttings and have propagated those and grown those on for, you know, growing back out at the Presidio or other botanical gardens. And we're growing some in the ground. So we're involved in sort of these, what you could call in the plant where [00:05:00] at these care charismatic rescues of very rare individuals and on campus there's the ability for researchers to apply to the garden to do, do, use your space and or do something on the grounds. Yes, we have both indoor and outdoor space available to students, postdocs, faculty, uh, indoor greenhouse space can be utilized. Speaker 1: [00:05:30] Um, if someone wants to study plants in an indoor setting for a particular reason, we also have a research plateau, which is outside and this can be used for growing plants in the ground. Uh, so yes, uh, that those two areas are available to, uh, anybody on campus who's doing research. Um, they usually just run it through our curator and our associate director of collections and horticulture. Uh, we make sure we can accommodate the plants and the type of work [00:06:00] and uh, Eh, that's been well utilized over the years. Alright. We also do other types of research or support other types of research in the garden that one might not think would happen in a botanical garden. Uh, for several years we had, uh, a magnetometer up on the research plateau that was run by, I believe, the physics department. And they were, uh, working to develop a very sensitive machine, almost like an MRI. So they were picking up, uh, [00:06:30] magnetic impulses from all over the bay area. And so they needed a quiet space away from a lot of noise. So they, uh, they use that. There's a people from campus doing research on on bees and how far they migrate and what types of plants they they travel to in pollinate. So it can be a a a wide ranging, uh, okay. Wide ranging types of research. It doesn't have to just be a plant or plant genetics based Speaker 6: [00:07:00] [inaudible] Speaker 3: [inaudible] you are listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 1: Yeah, compost tea has been around for a while. [00:07:30] Most of the work on compost, he started with a group called the soil food web. They were doing and still continue to do research on compost tea as mostly an organic replacement for synthetic fungicides for disease suppression in agriculture, horticulture and landscaping. So weed heard about it and we had some colleagues at other gardens starting to use compost tea with good results. [00:08:00] And so that's how we first started to hear about it. And what were the challenges in terms of embracing the process [inaudible] well, compost tea takes some specialized equipment. It's, it's a new approach that, like I mentioned before, it is not just pulling out the, the chemical fungicides to treat a problem. It's more, it's a more holistic approach where you're trying to get beneficial biology out into the environment and on your plants [00:08:30] to suppress diseases. Speaker 1: So it takes a while. So there's a, there's a learning curve and uh, an a by n curve with, you know, even my staff in terms of believing that this a new organic approach to disease suppression and introducing organic fertility will actually work. So, but it helps to have other botanical gardens Arboreta and other colleagues who have worked with this and have had good results from it. Talk [00:09:00] about the brewing process. Sure. So [inaudible] we were fortunate to get a grant from the Green Initiative Fund here on campus that paid for our compost tea brewing equipment. This includes a 100 gallon tank brewer with a motor that blows air into the tank. And we also bought a large commercial grade worm composting bin and started off with some bulk ingredients to make compost. [00:09:30] And so essentially what, what the process is, is taking hot compost or what we call thermophilic compost that is cooked down from organic biomass. Speaker 1: And then taking worm compost. The done the castings, uh, from the worms. Uh, both of these things end up looking like soil when they're fully done. And we take these two things and we put them in a fine mesh bag and we can suspend them in the [00:10:00] tank of water or we can put them in a five gallon bucket of water. And we, it's like kneading dough. We need all this material a and w a water solution. And what we're doing is if you have a healthy compost, uh, what you'll get in that water is a very rich mix of beneficial fungi, bacteria, nematodes, protozoa, uh, along with some nutrients. And so we take this [00:10:30] slurry, this comp, this t from compost, put it into the larger unit, fill that with water. We add some humic acids to sort of bind up the chloramines that are in the East Bay mud water. Speaker 1: And then we add some extra fish, emulsion and Capitol Kelp emulsion. The fish and Kelp emulsion are used to feed the biology that we've put in that water. We fill the tank up a hundred gallons and we airaid it with the motorized blower for 24 to 48 hours. [00:11:00] So what happens here is that all that beneficial biology propagates with the in the, in the water and with the air and the extra organic food provided by the fish and kelp. And so during that airation process, all this biology multiplies many, many fold. And so that's our basic brewing process. Speaker 1: So the real benefit will be how healthy you assess [00:11:30] your plants to be. And it, I guess over time you can make that assessment. Yes. Uh, at this point we have mostly been using our compost tea and our Rose Garden. We have a garden of old roses and this is a small collection and so it's been easy to apply, um, are relatively limited equipment, uh, to this collection. Also roses, uh, particularly cultivated roses are classics for having [00:12:00] Fungal Pathogens, like a black spot, powdery mildew, things like that. So we've been using it in there and some things have responded well. Some things haven't responded so well. And we've also been using the compost tea in the Rose Garden, not just for disease suppression on foliage, but to build the health of the soil in terms of the biology of the soil, the fertility in the soil. And so it can take time to convert a soils from [00:12:30] a conventional methodology where you're using synthetics, uh, and then changing into using organics that that can take time and that is pretty well supported in their literature. Going from conventional methodology to organic methodology. Um, it certainly takes some time to convert uh, soils and plants. Speaker 3: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [inaudible] [00:13:00] you are listening to spectrum on k a l x. We are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 1: Right now we have a student intern who has started and uh, there will be doing the brewing and helping with the brewing and application process in [00:13:30] afforded cultural methods. IB One 12, I'll be exposing my students to the process. There is a student run course on campus, uh, called decal. And so we'll also be bringing the decal classes up for demonstration of how we brew in our methodology. So, and we're certainly at this point, mostly getting the word out about compost tea, um, to students and, and other groups right here on campus. Yeah. [00:14:00] But it helped to broaden that out reach as again, as we see positive results from our, from our program. What does the volunteer program at the Botanical Gardens, the volunteer program comprises several, several arms. Uh, you can volunteer, uh, in horticulture with the area horticulturist, we have a very large volunteer pool of plant propagators who propagate plants for our plant sales, both our plant [00:14:30] deck, which is open daily and our two big plant sales in spring and falls. We have a very large volunteer plant propagator program. We also have volunteers who work in our, with our curators doing all types of, uh, things that curators do in museums. Um, and then we also have very large and active docent volunteer program as most museums do. So that docents, um, lead tours, uh, adult tours, [00:15:00] children's tours, and a free tours to the public as well. Speaker 7: Now the, the Volunteer Program embraces the university faculty, Staff Students, and it's also open to the community as well. Is that right? Speaker 1: The volunteer program, right? Oh yes. Uh, the volunteer program is open to anybody who's got the time, uh, to commit. I believe we do ask for a certain, uh, time commitment, um, before we'll, [00:15:30] we'll, uh, you know, give you your badge and your parking Pasch as a, you know, a lot of people come and go. But, uh, we've, we really couldn't do what we do without our volunteers. They do an amazing amount of work from the docenting to the volunteer plant propagation working in horticulture and curation. Uh, because the garden is, is understaffed and underfunded. Unfortunately we rely heavily on the work and the services of our volunteers. Speaker 7: And within that volunteer program, the kinds of opportunities there [00:16:00] are to learn about if someone doesn't have a great deal of experience, how much training is involved in that program where people who are interested but don't have expertise, could be of great assistance to you essentially learn how to do it all. Speaker 1: There's a very specific, uh, training program for the docents. In fact, that is, uh, that is fee-based. The docents actually have to pay to come and be trained for the docent program. And that runs [00:16:30] for several months. Uh, volunteer propagation training program is a little more casual, but there we have section heads in the volunteer propagation program who grow certain groups of plants and they'll, uh, train new people who come in along with our volunteer plant propagation program coordinator. Uh, they'll also do some sort of hands on training. Um, horticultural volunteers are a little different. We do prefer horticultural [00:17:00] volunteers that come in with us, some bit of knowledge, um, at least general knowledge about horticulture and landscaping and, um, tools and things like that. Uh, but horticultural volunteers, you know, it's mostly about time and having the interest and, uh, they'll come in and work with the horticulturist and, uh, and certainly learn quickly. Speaker 4: [inaudible] [00:17:30] you are listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 7: Are there other ways that the garden is reaching out Speaker 1: to the community or involving the community and activities? Uh, yes, we have programs that we run through the year and they may not specifically be on, [00:18:00] uh, you know, growing a particular plant. Uh, we try and broaden the interest range with our programs. It can be things like succulent wreath making. We have a concert series during the summer. We have children's programs that may or may not have to do with plants. We have, uh, classes on botanical illustration. So we really try and broaden, uh, the interest, um, and appeal to other groups besides people who are just specifically interested [00:18:30] in growing plants. Uh, one of the audiences we're reaching out to right now are our people, uh, who are interested in, in the arts are artists themselves. Uh, we have a very unique, uh, installation in the garden right now by Shirley, uh, Alexander Watts. And this is a installation that has to do with, uh, bringing awareness to the plight of, uh, honeybees and California native beast. Speaker 1: A very interesting [00:19:00] physical installation that you can come and see in our Mediterranean basin collection just above the Rose Garden. So that, uh, is a trend we're seeing in botanical gardens in particular is, is broadening the appeal to other audiences, including art installations. And so we're trying to be thoughtful and tasteful about it. And in this case with the, with the bee installation called a garden of mountings, which is a reference to a Sylvia Plath poem. We're trying to cross [00:19:30] link that art with, uh, the mission of the garden. And so this is a nice fit because it is about, uh, being aware about native bees and their role in the ecosystem and their relationship with plants. So that was a nice fit. And so a unique opportunity to come and see a unique piece of art, uh, in the botanical garden. So we're doing things like that to, to draw in other people besides just what we call plant people. Speaker 1: And how long will that installation be up? Well, it's been in for a couple of months [00:20:00] now and I think the duration was roughly about six months. Um, it will eventually probably succumb to the elements and so we'll have to take it down at some point, but it is something you can actually walk up, walk under, sit in a, there's a poem in there, there's pictures of the bees with their names and their roles in the environment. So it's a very interesting and educational, uh, art installation, which also happens to be I think, beautiful and appealing and in a unique setting in the garden. Speaker 1: [00:20:30] Great. And other artists out there that might be listening who would want to run an idea by you? What's the way to get in touch? Uh, they would probably get in touch with Vanessa Cruz, uh, who is on staff and she's been working with surely. And in fact, Shirley Watts is, um, working on bringing in more artists in the next year to do multiple installations in the garden. So we're looking forward to that. [00:21:00] And do you have a funding source for that? Is it, I believe that one is a, the fundraising is being done by, uh, the groups of artists who are actually coming in, uh, to do it. So we, yeah, we at this point, um, wish we, we did, but we don't have a lot of money to support the arts, but we like to promote the idea of the arts. Um, so we hope it's a good cross-collaboration in, um, having interesting [00:21:30] art in the garden for people to see and also giving the artists, um, some good exposure to their audiences. Speaker 1: Well, any point that you would like to make about the garden that I haven't, uh, covered? Yeah, I think one of the things that always surprises us at the garden is, um, how many people, even people who have lived in Berkeley for years and years, uh, have never been up to the botanical garden. It really is a hidden gem here in the greater bay area. There's nowhere [00:22:00] else where you can come and visit for relatively, uh, a cheaply where you can experience plants from around the world, grown in naturalistic assemblages, um, and have a view of the golden gate bridge places to have a picnic. It's really a unique setting in the bay area and um, and still underutilized even by, uh, the campus. So that that would be my one. Uh, shout out if you will for the garden is to please come and visit, [00:22:30] uh, and support, uh, the botanical garden and its mission. Correct. Anthony Garza, thanks for coming on spectrum. Thanks for having me. It's been a pleasure. Speaker 6: [inaudible] that was Anthony Garza Jr. You can find out more about the UC botanical garden botanical garden.berkeley.edu Speaker 5: [00:23:00] irregular feature of spectrum is presented a calendar of the science and technology related events happening in the bay area over the next two weeks. On the third Friday of every month. The Chabot space and science center located in the Beautiful Oakland Hills at 10,000 skyline boulevard hosts night school from seven to 11:00 PM guests 18 years or older are welcome to enjoy full access to exhibits, special activities, workshops, open labs, discussion [00:23:30] forums, alive, planetarium show, film screens, and telescope viewings. If weather permits, food, beer and wine are available for purchase. Tonight's theme is home-ec and we'll feature DIY projects including a green gift, bizarre holiday kitchen science fix it. Workshop discussions with they local monthly meetup group that craft intellectuals and mold wine. Who is it? www.chabotscience.org for more details. [00:24:00] Okay, tomorrow is Saturday, December 17th the director of the UC Wide Institute for Nuclear and particle astrophysics and cosmology. Bernard [inaudible] Dulay is giving a talk for the free monthly science of cattle lecture series. This talk will be 11 to noon in room 100 of the genetics and plant biology building here at UC Berkeley. Okay. Shedding light on the dark side of the universe. He will share current attempts to detect the weekly [00:24:30] interactive massive particles which could make up the dark matter. That makes up five times as much of the energy in the universe as ordinary matter. Visit science@caldotberkeley.edu for more information. Speaker 5: Nerd night is the discovery channel with beer on the third Wednesday of the month in this case, December 21st nerds of all walks of life gather at the rickshaw stop. One 55 fell street at Vanessa in San Francisco. [00:25:00] Plunk down their hard earned $8 drink, mingle and here three talks this month. Senior, UC Davis medical student, Erica Lee will present genes, gonads and genitals, the miracle of human sex differentiation. Anna Quillo, capital co-founder Adam Bristol. We'll discuss the future of personalized medicine and predictive bioinformatics. There'll also be a third surprise Speaker, sf.nights.com for more information [00:25:30] and now with some news headlines. Here's Brad Swift. Speaker 7: The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smartphones and computers, lasers, and a number of other powered devices. Science daily reports. The finding was made by a group of engineers headed by day you, Lee, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University and published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. [00:26:00] On December 11th Lee and his collaborators discovered that the thermal conductivity of a pair of thin strips of material called Boron nanoribbons can be enhanced by up to 45% depending on the process that they used to stick the two ribbons together. Although the research was conducted with Boron nanoribbons, the results are generally applicable to other thin film materials according to lead. The force that holds the two nanoribbons together is a weak [00:26:30] electrostatic attraction called the Vander vols force. Professor Lee stated traditionally it is widely believed that the phone ons that carry heat are scattered at vendor vault interfaces which makes the ribbon bundles thermal conductivity the same as that of each ribbon. Speaker 7: What we discovered is in sharp contrast to this classical view, we show that the photons can cross these interfaces without being scattered, which [00:27:00] significantly enhances the thermal conductivity. In addition, the researchers found that they could control the thermal conductivity between high and low value by treating the interface of the nano ribbon pairs with different solutions. One of the first areas where this new knowledge is likely to be applied is in the thermal management of micro electronic devices like computer chips and nano composites that are being developed for use in flexible electronic devices and structural [00:27:30] materials for aerospace vehicles. Speaker 5: Joe Cordeiro and the Economist pointed me to an article that appeared in the October 17th issue of the Journal of Agricultural and food chemistry in it. French researchers, Caroline Molet and her team studied the quality of Miele duck foreground. France produces 73% of these fat duck and goose loaders. One undesirable issue is that some lovers seem to have larger amounts of fat loss during cooking than others. Market regulation limits fat [00:28:00] loss to 30% and lower fat loss leads to more highly priced delicacies. A proteomics study got to the biological cause of this fat loss. Intense anabolic pathways lead delivers with low fat loss by dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry showed that deliveries were rich in proteins that help with the digestion and storage of food, the less desirable livers that lost a lot of fat or in a different physiological stage and had unique proteins including fatty acid binding protein for this is a marker for [00:28:30] a nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in humans. This suggests that the liver quality is dictated before the slaughter of the animal. One practical aspect is that the yield of four gras is improved by reducing the duration of overfeeding. Understanding the biological mechanism can increase yield and thus improve the humane production of fatty livers. It should be noted that the state of California health and safety code and acted in 2004 prohibits the force feeding of birds for the purpose of enlarging their livers or the sale of such products. [00:29:00] Starting on July 1st, 2012 Speaker 6: [inaudible]Speaker 4: the music credit. Today's program was the track petite to leap off of list on a David's 2011 album entitled folk and Acoustic [00:29:30] and is released under the creative Commons attribution license version 3.0 thank you for listening to. We are happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l s@yahoo.com and join us in two weeks at this same time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Garza Jr. is the supervisor of horticulture and grounds at the botanical garden. He runs a class on horticultural methods and is responsible for the transition to more organic methodologies at the garden.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Hi, this is Rick. We edited this file on April 30th, 2013 in order to fix file upload problems we had within earlier copy Speaker 2: spectrum's. Next then Speaker 3: [inaudible].Speaker 4: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and [00:01:00] technologists. Speaker 5: My name is Rick Karnofsky. Brad swift and I are the host of this show. Today. We are pleased to speak with Anthony Garcia jr who will discuss the UC botanical garden at Berkeley. He's the supervisor of horticulture and grounds at the botanical garden and oversees a large number of employees there. He runs a class on horticultural methods and is responsible for the transition to more organic methodologies at the garden, including the recent adoption of compost tea. Speaker 1: Anthony Garza Junior. [00:01:30] Welcome to spectrum. Thanks for having me. Brad. Give us a, an overview of your responsibilities at the botanical garden. Sure. I'm the supervisor of horticulture and grounds and so I work very closely with [inaudible]. My boss who is the associate director of collections and horticulture and our director. I supervise about 10 area horticulturists. Okay. A lead building, maintenance employee, and a groundskeeper. [00:02:00] And I do a lot of interfacing with physical plant campus services here to support the infrastructure at the garden. I run a class called horticultural methods, which is IB one 12 l. Yeah. So I'm all over the place doing a lot of things. So it keeps it interesting every day. Speaker 1: How old is the garden? How, what's the history of the garden? Sure. The garden actually started down here on campus. I have an old black and white picture, my office of Palms and bananas and, and other interesting [00:02:30] plants out in front of I believe North or South Hall. Well that was pre 1930 because the gardens started moving up the hill, uh, to its current site, which is a former sheep and cattle farm in 1929. So it's been there that long. We actually have collections, uh, plant collections in the garden, say from the new world desert that date from the early thirties that are still alive. What's your favorite place in the garden? [00:03:00] Oh, that's hard to say. The garden is such a beautiful place and there are several spots where when you're up in the canyon you have views of the Golden Gate Bridge, um, which is unique to University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Speaker 1: I'd have to say my favorite place is probably out in the farthest reaches of the collection in the Mesoamerican or the Mexican and Central American collection because it, it's sort of wedged down in, uh, [00:03:30] Strawberry Canyon. So he can be out in that collection among plants from, uh, Mexico and feel like you're really out in habitat and cause you're seeing very little other built structures around you. It's, it's a really fine collection and probably the least visited because it's the furthest out from the front entrance. Is there any activity that the garden does to try to preserve certain species? Yes, absolutely. Might be in danger. Most of that work is, has been done just because of where [00:04:00] we are here in California with California native plants. And a lot of that conservation work is done by our curator, Holly Forbes and Barbara Keller. And, uh, for example, uh, there are several, uh, there's a recent case of a, an Arctic staphylococci or, uh, a Manzanita California Manzanita being rediscovered, uh, in the Presidio on Doyle drive. Speaker 1: They were, um, doing some road construction and found one individual, a plant that [00:04:30] was thought to be gone. And so, uh, that plant was before it was dug up and moved to another side and the Presidio, a bunch of cuttings were taken a vegetative cuttings. So we were involved in that and we received a lot of those cuttings and have propagated those and grown those on for, you know, growing back out at the Presidio or other botanical gardens. And we're growing some in the ground. So we're involved in sort of these, what you could call in the plant where [00:05:00] at these care charismatic rescues of very rare individuals and on campus there's the ability for researchers to apply to the garden to do, do, use your space and or do something on the grounds. Yes, we have both indoor and outdoor space available to students, postdocs, faculty, uh, indoor greenhouse space can be utilized. Speaker 1: [00:05:30] Um, if someone wants to study plants in an indoor setting for a particular reason, we also have a research plateau, which is outside and this can be used for growing plants in the ground. Uh, so yes, uh, that those two areas are available to, uh, anybody on campus who's doing research. Um, they usually just run it through our curator and our associate director of collections and horticulture. Uh, we make sure we can accommodate the plants and the type of work [00:06:00] and uh, Eh, that's been well utilized over the years. Alright. We also do other types of research or support other types of research in the garden that one might not think would happen in a botanical garden. Uh, for several years we had, uh, a magnetometer up on the research plateau that was run by, I believe, the physics department. And they were, uh, working to develop a very sensitive machine, almost like an MRI. So they were picking up, uh, [00:06:30] magnetic impulses from all over the bay area. And so they needed a quiet space away from a lot of noise. So they, uh, they use that. There's a people from campus doing research on on bees and how far they migrate and what types of plants they they travel to in pollinate. So it can be a a a wide ranging, uh, okay. Wide ranging types of research. It doesn't have to just be a plant or plant genetics based Speaker 6: [00:07:00] [inaudible] Speaker 3: [inaudible] you are listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 1: Yeah, compost tea has been around for a while. [00:07:30] Most of the work on compost, he started with a group called the soil food web. They were doing and still continue to do research on compost tea as mostly an organic replacement for synthetic fungicides for disease suppression in agriculture, horticulture and landscaping. So weed heard about it and we had some colleagues at other gardens starting to use compost tea with good results. [00:08:00] And so that's how we first started to hear about it. And what were the challenges in terms of embracing the process [inaudible] well, compost tea takes some specialized equipment. It's, it's a new approach that, like I mentioned before, it is not just pulling out the, the chemical fungicides to treat a problem. It's more, it's a more holistic approach where you're trying to get beneficial biology out into the environment and on your plants [00:08:30] to suppress diseases. Speaker 1: So it takes a while. So there's a, there's a learning curve and uh, an a by n curve with, you know, even my staff in terms of believing that this a new organic approach to disease suppression and introducing organic fertility will actually work. So, but it helps to have other botanical gardens Arboreta and other colleagues who have worked with this and have had good results from it. Talk [00:09:00] about the brewing process. Sure. So [inaudible] we were fortunate to get a grant from the Green Initiative Fund here on campus that paid for our compost tea brewing equipment. This includes a 100 gallon tank brewer with a motor that blows air into the tank. And we also bought a large commercial grade worm composting bin and started off with some bulk ingredients to make compost. [00:09:30] And so essentially what, what the process is, is taking hot compost or what we call thermophilic compost that is cooked down from organic biomass. Speaker 1: And then taking worm compost. The done the castings, uh, from the worms. Uh, both of these things end up looking like soil when they're fully done. And we take these two things and we put them in a fine mesh bag and we can suspend them in the [00:10:00] tank of water or we can put them in a five gallon bucket of water. And we, it's like kneading dough. We need all this material a and w a water solution. And what we're doing is if you have a healthy compost, uh, what you'll get in that water is a very rich mix of beneficial fungi, bacteria, nematodes, protozoa, uh, along with some nutrients. And so we take this [00:10:30] slurry, this comp, this t from compost, put it into the larger unit, fill that with water. We add some humic acids to sort of bind up the chloramines that are in the East Bay mud water. Speaker 1: And then we add some extra fish, emulsion and Capitol Kelp emulsion. The fish and Kelp emulsion are used to feed the biology that we've put in that water. We fill the tank up a hundred gallons and we airaid it with the motorized blower for 24 to 48 hours. [00:11:00] So what happens here is that all that beneficial biology propagates with the in the, in the water and with the air and the extra organic food provided by the fish and kelp. And so during that airation process, all this biology multiplies many, many fold. And so that's our basic brewing process. Speaker 1: So the real benefit will be how healthy you assess [00:11:30] your plants to be. And it, I guess over time you can make that assessment. Yes. Uh, at this point we have mostly been using our compost tea and our Rose Garden. We have a garden of old roses and this is a small collection and so it's been easy to apply, um, are relatively limited equipment, uh, to this collection. Also roses, uh, particularly cultivated roses are classics for having [00:12:00] Fungal Pathogens, like a black spot, powdery mildew, things like that. So we've been using it in there and some things have responded well. Some things haven't responded so well. And we've also been using the compost tea in the Rose Garden, not just for disease suppression on foliage, but to build the health of the soil in terms of the biology of the soil, the fertility in the soil. And so it can take time to convert a soils from [00:12:30] a conventional methodology where you're using synthetics, uh, and then changing into using organics that that can take time and that is pretty well supported in their literature. Going from conventional methodology to organic methodology. Um, it certainly takes some time to convert uh, soils and plants. Speaker 3: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [inaudible] [00:13:00] you are listening to spectrum on k a l x. We are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 1: Right now we have a student intern who has started and uh, there will be doing the brewing and helping with the brewing and application process in [00:13:30] afforded cultural methods. IB One 12, I'll be exposing my students to the process. There is a student run course on campus, uh, called decal. And so we'll also be bringing the decal classes up for demonstration of how we brew in our methodology. So, and we're certainly at this point, mostly getting the word out about compost tea, um, to students and, and other groups right here on campus. Yeah. [00:14:00] But it helped to broaden that out reach as again, as we see positive results from our, from our program. What does the volunteer program at the Botanical Gardens, the volunteer program comprises several, several arms. Uh, you can volunteer, uh, in horticulture with the area horticulturist, we have a very large volunteer pool of plant propagators who propagate plants for our plant sales, both our plant [00:14:30] deck, which is open daily and our two big plant sales in spring and falls. We have a very large volunteer plant propagator program. We also have volunteers who work in our, with our curators doing all types of, uh, things that curators do in museums. Um, and then we also have very large and active docent volunteer program as most museums do. So that docents, um, lead tours, uh, adult tours, [00:15:00] children's tours, and a free tours to the public as well. Speaker 7: Now the, the Volunteer Program embraces the university faculty, Staff Students, and it's also open to the community as well. Is that right? Speaker 1: The volunteer program, right? Oh yes. Uh, the volunteer program is open to anybody who's got the time, uh, to commit. I believe we do ask for a certain, uh, time commitment, um, before we'll, [00:15:30] we'll, uh, you know, give you your badge and your parking Pasch as a, you know, a lot of people come and go. But, uh, we've, we really couldn't do what we do without our volunteers. They do an amazing amount of work from the docenting to the volunteer plant propagation working in horticulture and curation. Uh, because the garden is, is understaffed and underfunded. Unfortunately we rely heavily on the work and the services of our volunteers. Speaker 7: And within that volunteer program, the kinds of opportunities there [00:16:00] are to learn about if someone doesn't have a great deal of experience, how much training is involved in that program where people who are interested but don't have expertise, could be of great assistance to you essentially learn how to do it all. Speaker 1: There's a very specific, uh, training program for the docents. In fact, that is, uh, that is fee-based. The docents actually have to pay to come and be trained for the docent program. And that runs [00:16:30] for several months. Uh, volunteer propagation training program is a little more casual, but there we have section heads in the volunteer propagation program who grow certain groups of plants and they'll, uh, train new people who come in along with our volunteer plant propagation program coordinator. Uh, they'll also do some sort of hands on training. Um, horticultural volunteers are a little different. We do prefer horticultural [00:17:00] volunteers that come in with us, some bit of knowledge, um, at least general knowledge about horticulture and landscaping and, um, tools and things like that. Uh, but horticultural volunteers, you know, it's mostly about time and having the interest and, uh, they'll come in and work with the horticulturist and, uh, and certainly learn quickly. Speaker 4: [inaudible] [00:17:30] you are listening to spectrum on KALX we are speaking with Anthony Garcia jr about the UC botanical gardens. Speaker 7: Are there other ways that the garden is reaching out Speaker 1: to the community or involving the community and activities? Uh, yes, we have programs that we run through the year and they may not specifically be on, [00:18:00] uh, you know, growing a particular plant. Uh, we try and broaden the interest range with our programs. It can be things like succulent wreath making. We have a concert series during the summer. We have children's programs that may or may not have to do with plants. We have, uh, classes on botanical illustration. So we really try and broaden, uh, the interest, um, and appeal to other groups besides people who are just specifically interested [00:18:30] in growing plants. Uh, one of the audiences we're reaching out to right now are our people, uh, who are interested in, in the arts are artists themselves. Uh, we have a very unique, uh, installation in the garden right now by Shirley, uh, Alexander Watts. And this is a installation that has to do with, uh, bringing awareness to the plight of, uh, honeybees and California native beast. Speaker 1: A very interesting [00:19:00] physical installation that you can come and see in our Mediterranean basin collection just above the Rose Garden. So that, uh, is a trend we're seeing in botanical gardens in particular is, is broadening the appeal to other audiences, including art installations. And so we're trying to be thoughtful and tasteful about it. And in this case with the, with the bee installation called a garden of mountings, which is a reference to a Sylvia Plath poem. We're trying to cross [00:19:30] link that art with, uh, the mission of the garden. And so this is a nice fit because it is about, uh, being aware about native bees and their role in the ecosystem and their relationship with plants. So that was a nice fit. And so a unique opportunity to come and see a unique piece of art, uh, in the botanical garden. So we're doing things like that to, to draw in other people besides just what we call plant people. Speaker 1: And how long will that installation be up? Well, it's been in for a couple of months [00:20:00] now and I think the duration was roughly about six months. Um, it will eventually probably succumb to the elements and so we'll have to take it down at some point, but it is something you can actually walk up, walk under, sit in a, there's a poem in there, there's pictures of the bees with their names and their roles in the environment. So it's a very interesting and educational, uh, art installation, which also happens to be I think, beautiful and appealing and in a unique setting in the garden. Speaker 1: [00:20:30] Great. And other artists out there that might be listening who would want to run an idea by you? What's the way to get in touch? Uh, they would probably get in touch with Vanessa Cruz, uh, who is on staff and she's been working with surely. And in fact, Shirley Watts is, um, working on bringing in more artists in the next year to do multiple installations in the garden. So we're looking forward to that. [00:21:00] And do you have a funding source for that? Is it, I believe that one is a, the fundraising is being done by, uh, the groups of artists who are actually coming in, uh, to do it. So we, yeah, we at this point, um, wish we, we did, but we don't have a lot of money to support the arts, but we like to promote the idea of the arts. Um, so we hope it's a good cross-collaboration in, um, having interesting [00:21:30] art in the garden for people to see and also giving the artists, um, some good exposure to their audiences. Speaker 1: Well, any point that you would like to make about the garden that I haven't, uh, covered? Yeah, I think one of the things that always surprises us at the garden is, um, how many people, even people who have lived in Berkeley for years and years, uh, have never been up to the botanical garden. It really is a hidden gem here in the greater bay area. There's nowhere [00:22:00] else where you can come and visit for relatively, uh, a cheaply where you can experience plants from around the world, grown in naturalistic assemblages, um, and have a view of the golden gate bridge places to have a picnic. It's really a unique setting in the bay area and um, and still underutilized even by, uh, the campus. So that that would be my one. Uh, shout out if you will for the garden is to please come and visit, [00:22:30] uh, and support, uh, the botanical garden and its mission. Correct. Anthony Garza, thanks for coming on spectrum. Thanks for having me. It's been a pleasure. Speaker 6: [inaudible] that was Anthony Garza Jr. You can find out more about the UC botanical garden botanical garden.berkeley.edu Speaker 5: [00:23:00] irregular feature of spectrum is presented a calendar of the science and technology related events happening in the bay area over the next two weeks. On the third Friday of every month. The Chabot space and science center located in the Beautiful Oakland Hills at 10,000 skyline boulevard hosts night school from seven to 11:00 PM guests 18 years or older are welcome to enjoy full access to exhibits, special activities, workshops, open labs, discussion [00:23:30] forums, alive, planetarium show, film screens, and telescope viewings. If weather permits, food, beer and wine are available for purchase. Tonight's theme is home-ec and we'll feature DIY projects including a green gift, bizarre holiday kitchen science fix it. Workshop discussions with they local monthly meetup group that craft intellectuals and mold wine. Who is it? www.chabotscience.org for more details. [00:24:00] Okay, tomorrow is Saturday, December 17th the director of the UC Wide Institute for Nuclear and particle astrophysics and cosmology. Bernard [inaudible] Dulay is giving a talk for the free monthly science of cattle lecture series. This talk will be 11 to noon in room 100 of the genetics and plant biology building here at UC Berkeley. Okay. Shedding light on the dark side of the universe. He will share current attempts to detect the weekly [00:24:30] interactive massive particles which could make up the dark matter. That makes up five times as much of the energy in the universe as ordinary matter. Visit science@caldotberkeley.edu for more information. Speaker 5: Nerd night is the discovery channel with beer on the third Wednesday of the month in this case, December 21st nerds of all walks of life gather at the rickshaw stop. One 55 fell street at Vanessa in San Francisco. [00:25:00] Plunk down their hard earned $8 drink, mingle and here three talks this month. Senior, UC Davis medical student, Erica Lee will present genes, gonads and genitals, the miracle of human sex differentiation. Anna Quillo, capital co-founder Adam Bristol. We'll discuss the future of personalized medicine and predictive bioinformatics. There'll also be a third surprise Speaker, sf.nights.com for more information [00:25:30] and now with some news headlines. Here's Brad Swift. Speaker 7: The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smartphones and computers, lasers, and a number of other powered devices. Science daily reports. The finding was made by a group of engineers headed by day you, Lee, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University and published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. [00:26:00] On December 11th Lee and his collaborators discovered that the thermal conductivity of a pair of thin strips of material called Boron nanoribbons can be enhanced by up to 45% depending on the process that they used to stick the two ribbons together. Although the research was conducted with Boron nanoribbons, the results are generally applicable to other thin film materials according to lead. The force that holds the two nanoribbons together is a weak [00:26:30] electrostatic attraction called the Vander vols force. Professor Lee stated traditionally it is widely believed that the phone ons that carry heat are scattered at vendor vault interfaces which makes the ribbon bundles thermal conductivity the same as that of each ribbon. Speaker 7: What we discovered is in sharp contrast to this classical view, we show that the photons can cross these interfaces without being scattered, which [00:27:00] significantly enhances the thermal conductivity. In addition, the researchers found that they could control the thermal conductivity between high and low value by treating the interface of the nano ribbon pairs with different solutions. One of the first areas where this new knowledge is likely to be applied is in the thermal management of micro electronic devices like computer chips and nano composites that are being developed for use in flexible electronic devices and structural [00:27:30] materials for aerospace vehicles. Speaker 5: Joe Cordeiro and the Economist pointed me to an article that appeared in the October 17th issue of the Journal of Agricultural and food chemistry in it. French researchers, Caroline Molet and her team studied the quality of Miele duck foreground. France produces 73% of these fat duck and goose loaders. One undesirable issue is that some lovers seem to have larger amounts of fat loss during cooking than others. Market regulation limits fat [00:28:00] loss to 30% and lower fat loss leads to more highly priced delicacies. A proteomics study got to the biological cause of this fat loss. Intense anabolic pathways lead delivers with low fat loss by dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry showed that deliveries were rich in proteins that help with the digestion and storage of food, the less desirable livers that lost a lot of fat or in a different physiological stage and had unique proteins including fatty acid binding protein for this is a marker for [00:28:30] a nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in humans. This suggests that the liver quality is dictated before the slaughter of the animal. One practical aspect is that the yield of four gras is improved by reducing the duration of overfeeding. Understanding the biological mechanism can increase yield and thus improve the humane production of fatty livers. It should be noted that the state of California health and safety code and acted in 2004 prohibits the force feeding of birds for the purpose of enlarging their livers or the sale of such products. [00:29:00] Starting on July 1st, 2012 Speaker 6: [inaudible]Speaker 4: the music credit. Today's program was the track petite to leap off of list on a David's 2011 album entitled folk and Acoustic [00:29:30] and is released under the creative Commons attribution license version 3.0 thank you for listening to. We are happy to hear from listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l s@yahoo.com and join us in two weeks at this same time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Conversation w/ Stacey Iden, CVA, Program Manager, Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) Northern Virginia, about the value of volunteering for older adults and volunteer opportunities with local community organizations and Americorps Seniors.