making a difference! • moms making a difference
Maybe you’ve heard of Glassybaby already. If you haven’t, there’s a wonderful story behind it. It’s a story that begins with cancer and ends, or rather begins anew, with candles. It’s the story of Lee Rhodes, who started Glassybaby, which is now both a product and a company. It’s the tale of how something borne of a low point in Lee’s life became the means of lifting up so many others.
You see, fourteen years ago, Lee was raising …
Social Responsibility: How to Find Service Opportunitiesmaking a difference! • bettering communities
One of my favorite things about being a mom is how parenting has forced me to pull back and look at the world in the long view. Parenting has forced me to think of the world at large… and not just my little corner of it, and as a result,
Service: Ten Bite-Size Alternatives to the Traditional Bake Salemaking a difference! • tips for giving back
This week, let’s talk about ways to help others that involve making yummy things. We’ve talked before about helping others by feeding them, by nourishing them, even by cooking for them…. Seems only right that we should devote this week to simple ways to serve that incorporate
Service: Ten Bite-Size Ways to Give This Weekmaking a difference! • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service challenge is to Give. That seems so general; we talk so often …about ways to give. That’s because there are so many simple ways to give, and so many things to give besides money. Check out this list of 10 bite-size specific ideas for giving.
Ten Simple Ways to Build Gratitude for Living Treesmaking a difference! • tips for giving back
You all know what Arbor Day is, right? It’s a special day set aside each year for us as a people to focus on planting trees. Why planting trees…? Because trees help lower energy costs if planted near houses, and they clean the air. When is Arbor Day?
National Volunteer Week: How to Celebrate Volunteers & Teachersmoms making a difference • bettering communities
There’s a really good chance you are a volunteer or you are helped by a volunteer every single day! And as a parent, teachers make a daily difference in your life as well. This week (April 16-22nd) is National Volunteer Week. And May 7-15th is Teacher Appreciation Week.
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Act on Service: 10 Bite-Size Ideasmaking a difference! • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service… verb, Act, may seem kind of vague. To act can mean to do a lot of things, good or bad. We challenge you to think of and do one simple, bite-size thing, either from the list below or of your own creation, that involves the
Service: How to Drive Your Way to Servicemaking a difference! • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Service challenge is to do one small thing this week to help others that involve the verb “drive.” These can be things you can do while driving, about driving, to prevent driving, or involving memory drives. It’s not about organizing a big food drive… or blood
Service: 10 Autism Nonprofits to Supportmaking a difference! • tips for giving back
This week’s Season of Serve challenge is to Help someone else do good works. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel; find a person or nonprofit that’s doing work you believe in and find a simple way to help. Since April is National Autism Awareness Month, I’ve decided to provide …
Service: How to Make Your Spring Break Service-Orientedmaking a difference! • tips for giving back
I don’t know about you but spring fever has infected my family in a HUGE way! It snowed 4 inches yesterday alone, and then melted into a lovely 50 degree day (we went for a bike ride after school!). For Spring Break this year, we are hosting our own ‘…
Ride a bike or walk to a close destination to which you would normally drive.
Date: Wed., May 30
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: Dad Rules by Treion Miller
