Articles on Volunteering

Get Active!

Surfing the web for funny penguin pictures? Clicking through the first lady’s fabulous fashion slideshow? Googling yourself just to get an ego boost (or not)? Yeah, we caught...

Seva the Planet

It’s difficult to believe Seane Corn went through most of her teacher training terrified to lead her class, considering now, nearly two decades later, she’s one of the most...

How to Give Back with a Volunteer Vacation

Dorothy Engler felt blessed. She had fulfilling work as a Montessori teacher and the satisfaction of seeing her older child enter medical school and the younger one graduate college....

Volunteer

Electrical engineer Brian Dempsey helps people in America turn sunlight into electricity every day. But he says his most brilliant work was turning sun power into power learning for...

When You Wake Up

Most of us know what it means to act. But what does it mean to act sacredly? According to Oxford-educated author and religious scholar Andrew Harvey, “sacred activism” is...

The Pen is Mightier

Kevin Davis met Eric Spruth the same way most journalists meet a new friend: by writing a story about him. Davis, author of a nonfiction novel about the Cook County public defender’s...