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10 Easy Ways Dancing Can Make a Differencegiving back • tips for giving back
Last year about this time, I suggested a few ways to help others through dancing, like creating a dance about an issue you feel strongly about, recording it, and posting it on YouTube, or going to a dance performance and blogging about it. Dancing can be a powerful…
10 Bite-Size Ways Cooking can Make a Differencegiving back • tips for giving back
Gandhi once said: “Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.” Little…
10 Bite-Size Ways to Help Someone With a Disabilitygiving back • tips for giving back
Your challenge this week is to think about how it feels to have a disability, to empathize with someone who is mentally ill, or blind, or deaf, etc. Chances are, you know or are related to someone with a disability, or are disabled yourself. It can be very…
Ten Ways to Imagine a Better Lifegiving back • tips for giving back
This week's Season of Service challenge—to "imagine"—is a little different than the other ones. This time we ask you to just sit back and imagine the affects of what service you might be able to render for those you serve. A minister named A. Powell Davies once said, “Life is…
Ten Easy Ways to Help Others “Wear”giving back • tips for giving back
This week's Season of Service verb relates to service opportunities that involve the word "wear," whether that means making something someone else can wear, buying clothes for someone who can't afford them, or even wearing something different yourself. Like our post on "making" service opportunities, this is for…
Nature: Lessons Learned from Camping with 15 Childrengiving back • tips for giving back
When I was asked to help guide a trip of kids into the wilderness for a three day sleepover on top of a mountain, I jumped at the chance. As a trail runner, I had participated in mountain runs. Just days before, I had trekked to the summit of…
