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Australian of the Year: Sylvia McMillan, 50 years of community volunteering #AOTY2020 #ausoftheyear
Volunteering is doing things yourself that you think need to be done or that you think that you’ll enjoy. That’s what I think volunteering is and it’s to help the community. When it was part of my life, it wasn’t called volunteering when I started. It was just doing things that needed to be done. …
Cigna New England Community Involvement
New England – covering over 71,000 square miles. Home to more than 14 million people. But this isn’t how we see it. We see New England like this, on a more personal level because we live here, too. It’s why the health of our community is so important to us and at Cigna we know …
Strengthening Community through Equity
I think of equity as a concept that involves removing barriers that keep systems in place that don’t work to help people. The Y’s purpose is to strengthen the community, and we can’t strengthen the community without everyone having equal access to resources. The way that we do that work is by creating strategic partnerships …
Good Samaritan Society Foundation | Innovation | Kin Befriender
The window to the world project started seven years ago focused Typically around the technology and how we can develop ways to seamlessly connect people at a distance. The more we did in research the more we realized it’s the human element that’s missing. I would say this approach is very new what we’re doing …
Volunteer | Dog therapy | Good Samaritan Society
We visit on a regular basis the rehab center and Phyllis here with our two dogs it gives you a chance to make someone else feel good both of our parents my mother and her father were in facilities in LA last years we realize how dogs could make a difference it’s such fun to …
Chalk Day 2019 π | Nick Community Efforts
– We’re at George Washington Elementary School for Chalk Day. We’re out on the blacktop drawing our favorite Nicktoons characters with the kids. – I just love seeing their faces light up, they look forward to it every year. It brings something out in them, they really get to use their creativity and then see …
2019 Trusted Choice Community Service Award – Natasha Terrones | McFarland Clinic
NATASHA: For me it’s so much more than just community service, it’s a personal mission, it’s my family’s journey. JANELLE: She’s just taken this tragic loss and used it to help the community in such wonderful ways. NATASHA: December 17, 2016, I lost my 25-year-old daughter to an opioid overdose here in Ames. I felt …
Volunteer | Care and Compassion | Good Samaritan Society
I began volunteering officially January of 1985. This is my 35th year. It’s just the feeling I have to be able to make a difference. A smile and a pat on the back and just a listening ear makes all the difference. Joann is just a special person. She’s quiet, she’s gentle, she’s loving, friendly …
Service Learning at The Samaritan Women | Howard Community College (HCC)
Service learning is a powerful teaching strategy. And for HCC alumna Meghan Ross, service learning was an opportunity to find her passion. I heard about Samaritan woman when I was a junior in high school and I went back to my school and decided that, that was the issue that broke my heart and I …