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UncategorizedVolunteerism By the Numbers

The latest research released shows volunteering in America is rebounding from the isolating COVID years. More than 75.7 million people – or 28.3 percent of us Americans – formally volunteered…

UncategorizedThe Benefits of Volunteering

Dictionary publisher Oxford Languages defines a Volunteer as ‘a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.’ ‘Freely’ doesn’t mean there is no benefit to the…

UncategorizedEasy Ways to Volunteer

Volunteering has never been easier. There are plenty of opportunities to reap the benefits of volunteering for you and your community with little or no training or time commitment. You…

UncategorizedVolunteering Begins at Home

What does volunteering do for children? Volunteering teaches kids valuable life lessons such as empathy and social responsibility. They can learn time management and the importance of teamwork, and it…

UncategorizedWomen in Philanthropy

When Dolly Parton received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2022 it was hard to list all of her efforts; she donated a million dollars to COVID research at Vanderbilt…

UncategorizedWomen of Words

Excluding the Bible and the works of Willliam Shakespeare, who are the world’s best-selling authors of all time?  Hint, women dominate the top ten. Coming in at number 1, The…

UncategorizedWomen in Sports

Women athletes are the big news right now with more than 40 of 2026 US Women Winter Olympians returning home from Milan with at least one medal in hand.  When…

UncategorizedWomen in the Lab

Name a woman chemist. Marie Curie will always be the first name we think of.  Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1866 she studied physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne in…