Excerpted from the Hendricks County Flyer from May 5. Written by Ryan Palencer All last week, volunteers from around the world were in Indianapolis participating in the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) Foundation’s 50th anniversary community service project. The project included building three Habitat for Humanity homes, building a playground, and refurbishing the camp grounds [...]
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
5 May
Northern Indiana food bank receives fowl donation
Last week, a family-run poultry farm in Kosciusko County donated two truckloads, 3,000 cases, 26,000 pounds of chicken to the Food Bank of Northern Indiana. “We want to make sure the families that work with us on a regular basis are being taken care of,” John Tucker, Maple Leaf Farms CEO told WNDU-TV in South [...]
1 May
A new look for the warmer weather
I do believe the cold is finally behind us in Indiana. It may be wet, but its warm now, so I thought I’d freshen up the look of the blog. Thanks for stopping by on occasion. If you’ve come across a story in your community that you’d like to share on this site, please email [...]
4 Feb
The new pay-it-forward
Remember that movie that came out a few years ago? Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and some kid got the random acts of kindness concept really rolling there for a while. There were websites, school programs and people were actually out there paying it forward. Unfortunately, like many things, its novelty wore off. The concept is still around, [...]
2 Feb
Tweeting Data
I’m a big believer in having all the facts. With so many organizations out there to support, the movement to empower donors makes sense. Just look at donorschoose.org, smartgivers.org, yourcause.com… donors are getting informed and taking the reigns. I work for a non-profit, but we’re pretty neutral in that, we support other youth serving non-profits, [...]
12 Dec
How Do We Change the Culture?
Heard last night on NPR – We let business pay people based on value. But we don’t want people making money in charity. Want to make a million as a CEO selling violent video games to kids? Go for it. Want to make a million curing kids of cancer? You’re a parasite. So our top business school grads [...]
21 Nov
Impact of Volunteering – Made Visual
From the people over at http://www.good.is/ (I personally love this magazine and website. – jake)
18 Nov
AFP’s 2008 Philanthropy Award Winners
Tuesday night at the Indiana Chapter of AFP’s Philanthropy Awards Dinner, these fine citizen’s will be celebrated! For more information call AFP – 317.824.0940 Youth Achievement: Kate Pedersen Nominated by: Brooke’s Place for Grieving Young People Young Adult Achievement: Michael Hole Nominated by: Butler University Volunteer Fundraiser: Rhonda Kittle Nominated by: St. Vincent [...]
3 Nov
Listen for stories of giving on WFYI
Tune to WFYI at 4:30 every afternoon starting Tuesday, November 11th as they start a series on giving in central Indiana. 90.1 and the Indiana Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, will bring you a series of reports on the realities of philanthropy during tough economic times. From people joining forces to make a [...]
