Category Archives: Uncategorized

By Matt Robinson Celebration is vital to service learning practice and to sustaining service-learning in a community. By pausing to acknowledge and celebrate accomplishments during a service-learning project as well as at it’s end we reap exponentially more than we … Continue reading →

By Penny Kern I just had an interesting phone call and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Maybe someone out there can help me process this. A mother just called me asking for community service ideas for her … Continue reading →

Trudy Hamilton I recently had the experience to observe volunteers in a setting entirely outside my realm…hospital volunteers, and have a few thoughts. Often, in smaller hospitals, there simply is no funding to manage a volunteer program. In many healthcare … Continue reading →

Hello VolunteerMaine.org Blog Readers! In an effort to keep the Blog content high quality and relevant to you and your work the Commission has created a quick 5 question survey on the VolunteerMaine.org blog. Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F2CG5SZ . … Continue reading →

Hello VolunteerMaine.org Blog Readers! In an effort to keep the Blog content high quality and relevant to you and your work the Commission has created a quick 5 question survey on the VolunteerMaine.org blog. Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F2CG5SZ . … Continue reading →

By Anne B. Schink As a volunteer manager you are often in the crosshairs of change in your organization, whether it is fleshing out a new program or closing a program that no longer receives funding. You may have to … Continue reading →

By Matt Robinson In my last Volunteer Maine post I discussed how meaningful service-learning efforts develop by creating opportunities for youth to identify and impact problems and/or meet needs. Two recent experiences have me thinking about the many “whys” of … Continue reading →

By Jen Lobley I have a fascination with lists. People who know me well would probably describe me as a Type A, concrete-sequential person so my previous statement would not surprise them. My life seems to be full of lists; … Continue reading →

by Noble Smith To many, a coordinated three legged fund raising stool composed of a capital campaign, increased annual unrestricted support and a program of planned and estate giving, is old hat and is not a new trend. However, for … Continue reading →

by Alexa Plotkin This next September 11, 2010, will mark the ninth anniversary of the tragic events at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, PA. For many Americans, including myself, it feels like just yesterday that we … Continue reading →