RW Institute launches The Empathy Project, a structured corporate volunteering program connecting employees with international conversation partners through six-week dialogues, aiming for 1M hours of empathy work by 2026.
We were proud to work, live, and raise families in the areas we serve. This past weekend we joined hundreds of volunteers at the 10th Annual Anaheim Health Fair to show our commitment to our community. As a sponsor of the two-day event, we hosted a booth to help residents pass the time as they waited to see the doctor and/or the dentist.
Nearly half of America’s youth say a little coaching would encourage them to volunteer more, according to a new survey released today by The Allstate Foundation.
Cornerstones of Care and volunteers from Aramark hosted a two-hour training for approximately 25 teens and young adults in the Cornerstones’ Pathways, Youth Educational Success and/or foster care services.
2015 was a pivotal year for global sustainability. In September, the leaders of 193 United Nations (UN) Member States adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, comprised of a set of 169 targets, are the heir to Millennium Development Goals and represent a shared vision for what needs to be achieved by 2030 to secure a sustainable future. A few months after the SDGs were announced, world leaders gathered in Paris and agreed in principle to a new global framework to address climate change.
While both the SDGs and Paris Agreement are public sector commitments, achieving them will require multi-stakeholder collaboration. Yet these landmark agreements also take center stage in a sustainability environment already ripe with a dizzying array of sustainability frameworks, g
Celebrate Service is the theme for this year’s National Volunteer Week (April 10-16, 2016), a time to honor individuals who dedicate themselves to taking action and solving problems in their communities. It’s also a time to recognize the recipients of the Points of Light 2015 President’s Volunteer Service Award, the premier volunteer service award receiving both presidential and national recognition.
In this video filmed at Benevity's Goodness Matters User Conference, Nicole Campbell, Principal of Goodness Consulting at Benevity, discusses how companies can create engaging corporate social responsibility programs.
In this video filmed at Benevity's Goodness Matters User Conference, Diane Solinger, Global Lead, GooglersGive at Google, shares insights on how to engage a global workforce in giving and volunteering opportunities.
In this video filmed at Benevity's Goodness Matters User Conference, Cora McNeil, Senior Program Manager in the Office of Social Responsibility at UnitedHealth Group, describes how giving and volunteering can enhance overall employee health.
Systems change is hard. It’s especially hard when the current system seemingly works. It takes a lot of dedicated people who share a vision to make it happen.Pennsylvania and the rest of the United States are currently in the midst of moving from a system of day programs and sheltered workshops to a system promoting employment within a person’s community. It’s a movement from segregated settings to inclusive settings.
When Jeri Mulder was just 20 years old, she went through an experience with cancer that she hoped nobody would ever have to face again. 28 years later, she and her husband Jeff will donate $1 million to the LIVESTRONG Foundation through their family’s Shine Foundation to ensure that cancer patients and survivors get the support and access to care she didn’t have.
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