Obama’s Volunteers in Pennsylvania
Volunteers at two Philadelphia field offices share their stories about why they’re donating their time to Barack Obama’s campaign in Pennsylvania.
Duration : 0:3:49
Adam Huttler – The Business of Charity in the New Economy
Adam Huttler is founder and executive director of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists.
The traditional non-profit model is under attack. Rattling our tin cup for grants is no longer enough. Funders ask us to be business-like, but what does that really mean?
In this talk, Adam Huttler will discuss some emerging models for reinventing the way nonprofit cultural organizations do business. He will consider legal strategies, like the L3C and fiscal sponsorship. He will discuss structural approaches, including systems-centric cluster management. And he will consider the philosophical underpinnings of the whole conversation Who are our customers? Is professionalism really a good thing? When should infrastructure be outsourced?
Duration : 1:0:45
La Bici Digna Presentation (ENG)
Los Angeles. July 2010
In 2008, City of Lights was founded to increase visibility of cyclists of color, to provide legal rights and safety trainings, and to empower these cyclists so that they may advocate on their own behalf in their communities.
Along with the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), and the Popular Education Institute of Southern California (IDEPSCA), City of Lights began its legal rights and safety workshops for day laborers, as well as host bike rides.
In 2009, the Bicycle Kitchen began offering mechanic workshops to day laborers at CARECEN. Based on its success, people began discussing establishing a permanent location at a day laborer center.
By October of 2009, IDEPSCA offered a space at their Downtown Community Job Center in LA’s Garment District. With tools and used parts from the Bicycle Kitchen and donations from businesses and individuals, workshops at the space began; with day laborers, Bicycle Kitchen members, and City of Lights volunteers working side-by-side. They named themselves “La Bici Digna”.
The day laborers are the volunteers, teaching themselves bike mechanics in alliance with other volunteers and knowledgeable day laborers.
Day laborers and volunteers articulate their visions for the space through small meetings and assemblies.
In these assemblies, as consensus decision-making process, laborers develop as collective members and decision makers, creating the future of the program.
The laborers draw the connection between racist immigration policies and environmental destruction.
They hope to provide a sustainable example for others to follow in directly addressing real needs within a community, and doing so together, democratically, and with dignity.
[The structure and message of this video was decided on by the day laborers during their most recent assembly.]
La Bici Digna
http://ciudaddeluces.wordpress.com/?page_id=261&preview=true
City of Lights
http://ciudaddeluces.wordpress.com/
Bicycle Kitchen
http://www.bicyclekitchen.com
IDEPSCA
http://www.idepsca.org
CARECEN
http://www.carecen-la.org/
NDLON
http://www.ndlon.org
Popular Education Resources
http://www.colectivoflatlander.org/recursos
http://www.nnirr.org/shop/curricula.php
http://www.popednews.org/resources.html
Music: “Cariñito” by Los Hijos del Sol
Titles, Subtitles, and Editing!!! by Sasha
Thanxxx also to Luz
Duration : 0:3:27
Vice President Honors High School Service Team
Vice President Biden speaks to the Parade All-America High School Service Team about the importance of community involvement and public service. The team is composed of high school students who are changing their communities through public service. June 23, 2010.
Duration : 0:17:26
A Thousand Volunteers
Over one thousand Tulane University students hit the streets of New Orleans on Saturday, Sept. 1 to volunteer as part of “Outreach Tulane,” a variety of day-long projects in various neighborhoods of New Orleans.
Students coordinated projects with over twenty community groups, including the Louisiana SPCA, Habitat for Humanity, Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadian, Project Lazarus, City Park, Communities in Schools, the Green Project, Malta Park Assisted Living Facility, Beacon of Hope Resource Center, and more. Volunteers gathered bright and early on Newcomb Quad of the uptown campus and were bused to service agencies around the city.
It was the largest single day of community service for our students, faculty and staff. Activities included painting public schools, general cleaning and yard work, cutting fabric squares to make beds for animals, socializing with elderly residents, sorting and packaging food and other donations, building a Habitat home, and picking up trash and debris.
Public service is a graduation requirement at Tulane.
Duration : 0:1:47
LIVE UNITED STORIES- Tony and Carolina Argiz
The Argiz family volunteers together at a center for the elderly, where they provided them with balanced nutrition and daily activities to keep them healthy both physically and mentally.
Duration : 0:1:48
The Power of Volunteering
Learn how volunteering can benefit your community and change lives – including your own! Real volunteers from the San Francisco Bay Area give advice on how to overcome barriers to volunteering and finding the right volunteer experience for you.
Anyone can volunteer!
Produced by Mark Woloschuk / www.shtooky.com
Duration : 0:6:3
Community Tax Center 2008 IRS stimulus Package Day 03.28.200
Free Tax Return Preparation For You by Volunteers!
Trained community volunteers can help you with special credits, such as Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Child Tax Credit, and Credit for the Elderly for which you may qualify.
The VITA Program offers free tax help to low- to moderate-income (generally, $40,000 and below) people who cannot prepare their own tax returns. Certified volunteers sponsored by various organizations receive training to help prepare basic tax returns in communities across the country. VITA sites are generally located at community and neighborhood centers, libraries, schools, shopping malls, and other convenient locations. Most locations also offer free electronic filing. To locate the nearest VITA site, call 1-800-829-1040.
or
www.irs.gov
you may want to visit a volunteer site:
www.foundacomnorthtexas.org
or call you local IRS office for a site near you.
Are you ready to volunteer?
Thank you for your interest in being a volunteer for the Community Tax Centers.If you would like to be added to the list for the 2008 tax season please e-mail the Volunteer Coordinator, Franziska Gonzalez
actc.volunteer@gmail com
Duration : 0:4:4
Volunteer Efforts at the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center
Dominion Virginia Power employees and Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center employees volunteer their time and efforts to replace a fishing pier along Star Trail near the Center in Fishersville, VA.
Duration : 0:1:59
Community TAx Center-Shadow Brook VITA
Free Tax Return Preparation For You by Volunteers!
Trained community volunteers can help you with special credits, such as Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Child Tax Credit, and Credit for the Elderly for which you may qualify.
The VITA Program offers free tax help to low- to moderate-income (generally, $40,000 and below) people who cannot prepare their own tax returns. Certified volunteers sponsored by various organizations receive training to help prepare basic tax returns in communities across the country. VITA sites are generally located at community and neighborhood centers, libraries, schools, shopping malls, and other convenient locations. Most locations also offer free electronic filing. To locate the nearest VITA site, call 1-800-829-1040.
or
www.irs.gov
you may want to visit a volunteer site:
www.foundacomnorthtexas.org
or call you local IRS office for a site near you.
Are you ready to volunteer?
Thank you for your interest in being a volunteer for the Community Tax Centers.If you would like to be added to the list for the 2008 tax season please e-mail the Volunteer Coordinator, Franziska Gonzalez
actc.volunteer@gmail com
Duration : 0:3:23