Monthly Archives: June 2013

Body language of the empowered volunteer

What is their body language saying?

Body language is something not often discussed openly in volunteer groups, but it can be a prime factor in the empowered volunteers success. For many people who take on the challenge of volunteer group membership building it will be the their first encounter with sales or any form of direct solicitation with the possible exception […]

United volunteers rebuild America

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  Women volunteer workers doing up clothing parcels at the ACF rooms (taken for Australian Comforts Fund), Sydney 1944/ photographer Sam Hood Volunteers in America are one critical key to our rebuilding future. Volunteering around the world has changed drastically over the decades. In my own family an uncle with a law degree enlisted into […]

Empowered volunteer wisdom for membership building

7 pillars of wisdom

  Empowered volunteers are by nature caring and empathetic. For this reason they will find themselves as they hand out business cards and encountering people who are not happy, they need to fall back on the empowered volunteer wisdom. They may have many of life’s hard issues on their plate and they may be emotionally […]

Human Comments Welcome at EVRA

Humans welcome

                         Scott Beale / Laughing Squid” with credit to laughingsquid.com. In the last 7 days I have received more than 6,000 comments that I have manually reviewed and approved or deleted. It turned out that the comments were not individually written by visiting humans. I […]

Passion for what you enjoy!

Last Game as a Packer

Some people become famous in part because they show their passion for their cause to everyone they meet. It seems to be a part of them. They live to support that group or business or team! The caption above of Bret Favre bobble heads was offered to those of us attending the last game Bret […]

charitable contribution scams

Charities world wide

    The report shows a list of the 50 worst charities. Some of these charities seem little more than scams from the audit reports on how the contributions distributed to those in need were unearthed. Many have names which are easily confused with legitimate charities. This type of issue hurts everyone who is trying […]

Volunteering shapes youth, even in college

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  How powerful is volunteering for youths today? It can help curb college age youth from alcohol abuse for starters! The key here for parents or even kids considering different colleges is that age old quote, “Birds of a Feather Flock Together”! The data to support the idea that kids who attend a college where […]