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03 30th, 2011| 
Photos and video clips of 2011 Tecnical Meeting of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organizations held in Yerevan, Armenia March 2-7.
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Cupertino Mayor presents The President’s Volunteer Service Award. Recipients include Andy Huang, Vince Laporta, Isabel Rodriguez, Doug Frieson, Steve Hill, Barbara Jobs, Paul Petach, and Leroy Wilkinson.
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Meet the volunteers that make Rising Star Outreach what it is….
Including David Archuleta and Stacey Tookey
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Mar
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Learn more about Cradles to Crayons Philadelphia’s mission to provide everyday essentials to local children in need and engage children through adults in meaningful, tangible, volunteer service. We are located in W. Conshohochen and we hope you’ll visit us in person and on the web at http://cradlestocrayons.org. Our address is 30 Clipper Road, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. Our phone number is 215-836-0958.
Duration : 0:3:47
Mar
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First volunteer Robin May about his EVS in Kursenai and Centre for creative expression after coming back from Lithuania back to Germany.
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Mar
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Documentary about Frivillig Väntjänst/Volunteer Friend Service by Jan-Eje Ferling. Engl. subtitles.
Duration : 0:7:15
Mar
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Volunteer Nation is a new video series that celebrates the passion of extraordinary Americans who take action through service, volunteerism, and civic engagement. These ten amazing volunteers will be featured in Season One.
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Feb
28
At the 2009 Paint-A-Thon, groups from local companies, including Motorola and PepsiAmericas, put down their work and picked up paint brushes to make a difference in the lives of area seniors.
In many ways, a Paint-A-Thon is like an old-fashioned barn raising. The spirit is still the same…neighbors helping neighbors, people working together to enhance their community. Sponsored by Catholic Charities, Valspar Coatings and the Volunteer Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago, it’s an annual event that brings together local organizations, corporate sponsors and volunteers for a community-wide effort to paint the homes of seniors and disabled people with limited financial resources. For this year’s Paint-A-Thon Valspar provided all of the paint,while over 550 volunteers also supplied their own brushes, scrapers, putty knives, rags and ladders, not to mention plenty of hard work. All of these efforts came together to make a big difference throughout ten townships in the northwest suburbs: Barrington, Elk Grove, Hanover, Maine, New Trier, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Schaumburg and Wheeling.
While this year’s Paint-A-Thon has come and gone, there are still plenty of volunteer opportunities available in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. Visit http://www.volunteerinfo.net for information on volunteer programs and openings at local organizations.
Through in-kind donations and considerable volunteer support, the costs and administrative needs are kept to a minimum. The end result is that the lives of the homeowners, volunteers and supporters have been enriched by this wonderful act of generosity, and the community’s appearance is improved.
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Feb
26
More volunteer opportunities…
http://www.petergreenberg.com
One of the hottest trends in travel is volunteer vacation, where you spend your travel time helping out the needy. From Habitat for Humanity to a wild horse sanctuary, there are a number of great opportunities available.
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Life is all about maintaining balance, and service is a very important aspect of that balance. Of course, we have a variety of needs that we must attend to which often involve taking from the world around us, but in order to balance this taking we must learn how to give something back.
True service means that we take time to give our energy to something outside of ourselves with no expectation of reward or payment as our motivation for serving. For some, the art of serving is well ingrained, and this talk may just be a reminder of things they have learned already but may have lost track of.
For others, it will be the first time that they have ever explored the concept of service in their daily activities, outside of the traditional sense of giving someone money to perform a service.
Research conducted on the effect of service on health provides powerful evidence of its benefits, not only for those who are helped, but also for the service providers.
One study done by House et al, in Tecumseh, Michigan, focused on 2754 people for up to 12 years. The researchers found that the men who did no volunteer work were two and a half times more likely to die during the study than the men who had volunteered at least once a week. Other research focusing on volunteer work time and again points out the significance of altruism and its positive influence on health.
This is not to say that we serve with the expectation of living longer, but rather that service is an integral part of living. Service reflects a healthy outlook on life, and in itself can help to improve our health further.
This talk by Neal Hoptman has been significantly influenced by the teachings and writings of Swami Satchidananda and Swami Sivananda and the foundations of Integral Yoga. Other significant influences have been the books and talks of the Dalai Lama and Ram Dass.
For further information and tools for enhancing your health and learning more about service visit the website http:/www.virtualhealthresort.com
Sincere thanks and appreciation to Martin Amada of www.sitca.com who produced and edited this podcast. which was shot at Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary and Holistic Spa (www.kamalaya.com) on Samui Island in the Gulf of Thailand.
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