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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
