Helping Your Community During the COVID-19 Lockdown
With most of the United States and the rest of the world still under lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, it can be difficult to feel useful. However, even with social distancing in effect, there are many ways to connect and help the community and make sure...
How to Support Today’s Healthcare Workers
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, millions of people worldwide have been affected. To reduce the spread of COVID-19, many world governments have urged their citizens to quarantine and social distance. During this difficult time, those on the frontlines are needed now...
Community Development Banks: An Overview
According to the FDIC, an estimated 24 million American households were 'underbanked' in 2017. These underbanked Americans tend to be poorer and less educated. These individuals can find it difficult to access mainstream financial services, such as savings accounts or...
How to Help Communities Following Disaster
Whenever a natural disaster strikes a community, the first priority for first responders is the health of those affected. Response teams then take other aspects of well-being into account, like food and shelter, in what amounts to a scaling of Maslow’s hierarchy of...
Encouraging Your Employees to Volunteer
Employees impact all facets of an organization. The prize of any organization is its people. Of working Americans, 89% feel that companies who promote volunteer events offer better work environments. 70% believe that volunteer activities boost employee morale far more...
How to Help Nashville After the Tornado
On March 3rd, Nashville, Tennessee was hit hard by a devastating tornado in the middle of the night when many residents were sleeping, unaware of the danger heading their way. Millions of dollars of damage was done, and houses, businesses, and livelihoods were lost....
The Most Impactful Veteran’s Charities
There are various charities that have been established to aid veterans. Of course, they're all very different, but some are much more impactful than others. One way to separate the good charities from the great ones is to use a website like Charity Navigator. This...
Children’s Charities to Support This Year
There are many popular charities that people donate to throughout the year and especially during the holiday season. However, there are many children's charities that lack the media attention needed to create public awareness. Some of these U.S.-based organizations...
How Children Benefit from Volunteer Work
Helping others is a gift not only for those being helped, but for the volunteer as well. Therefore, many parents wonder how they can get their children to participate in volunteer work. How can a mother or father teach their children the value of volunteering and...
Floating Doctors: A Volunteering Spotlight
Floating Doctors is an organization that provides locum tenens medical and humanitarian aid services to poor, remote, underserved, as well as ravaged areas throughout the world. It was established nearly a decade ago, and its first mission involved the deployment of...