Category Archives: volunteer

Volunteer Work (August & September): ARUP Blood Services & University Venture Fund

I haven’t posted up about my weekly volunteer work lately, not because I haven’t been volunteering, but rather because I have been working with the same two organizations for the last couple months.  I continue to donate platelets on a bi-weekly basis (health and iron levels permitting) with Arup Blood Services (also known as Utah [...]

Volunteer Work (June 28th and Month of July): University Venture Fund

I worked with the University Venture Fund for two years during my undergraduate studies, being one of my most invaluable work experiences.  Now that I am wrapping up my part time contract with my firm and I have completed my travel, I thought I would volunteer with this old internship, trying to give back to [...]

Miracle Worker at Tojinbo Cliffs

The June 22, 2009 edition of Time magazine was a fabulous edition with excellent coverage and editorials filling its pages. The best article was the Postcard page highlighting a volunteer at Japan’s Tojinbo Cliffs, a story I later found out was previously covered by the BBC in October 2008. Japan has one of the highest [...]

Volunteer Work (Week of June 8): KCPW

The week of June 8th I spent some time volunteering with KCPW, a local public radio station. (Note, the week prior was spent at The Climber’s Ranch in Grand Tetons National Park.  I wrote up my entry on the CragBaby site since the work was climbing related.)  My volunteer work with KCPW was helping them [...]

Volunteer Work (Week of May 21): Utah Blood

My all time favorite volunteer experience is donating platelets through Utah Blood.  I tried to donate on two occasions during this week and was unfortunately turned away due to a slight sore throat (even though I think it was allergy related). Bummer I couldn’t volunteer, but I understand their need to ad her to strict [...]

Volunteer Work (Week of May 17th): No More Homeless Pets

Previous to my climbing sabbatical, I would strive to volunteer on a weekly basis.  This past Wednesday my 10-month trip came to a close and I immediately jumped back into my service regime as I truly had missed this weekly routine while away. In the past I have put up a few blog posts about [...]

Impact of the Chip-In Widget

In May Phil Burn’s daughter, Serenity, was diagnosed with leukemia . Phil Burns is a local entrepreneur, blogger, and technologist and well known in the local technology scene. With the announcement of the news, fellow bloggers immediately responded by distributing the Chip In Widget (created by Jesse Stay) amongst their online presence and pitching in [...]

Another Way to Help Serenity

Numerous posts and tweets have been hitting the Utah scene lately concerning Phil Burn’s daughter, Serenity, being diagnosed with Leukemia. I blogged a couple days ago about the new Chip In Widget, created by Jesse Stay, that thankfully has been distributed amongst a handful of bloggers and is seeing a good up-tick in donations. However, [...]

The Ten Thousand Villages Model

I have blogged quite a bit about Ten Thousand Villages on my personal blog as I volunteer with the organization on a regular (usually weekly) basis. Today I thought I would post an entry on the WasatchGirl blog instead as not only do I enjoy the volunteer experience, I find the business model to be [...]

Tom’s Shoes: Shoes for Tomorrow

I stumbled upon the great site of Tom’s Shoes due to a post on the Lifehacker blog. Tom’s Shoes, a company founded by Blake Mycoskie, focuses on addressing poverty and health issues by donating a pair of shoes to a child in need for each pair of shoes purchased. The concept was conceived as Blake [...]