A Rally For Rediscovering Values (And What It Means For Gen Y)
Miss Meg Goes to Washington Meg Biallas On Saturday, I was part of the estimated 250,000 who gathered for the “Rally-To-Restore-Huh?” on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (It was actually called the “Rally to Restore Fear And/Or Sanity” and hosted by the two Comedy Central icons, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Maybe you heard [...]
Community
Cultivating Mindfulness By Lisa Maas “The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” Aristotle I’ve recently taken up Zumba. The first class was humbling. My neighbor and I didn’t know a soul and we were the only new participants that day. This is a fast moving class. By the time we learned one [...]
Bluevine Exclusive: Students get involved in National Make A Difference Day
The Bluevine Collective recently spoke with students from Westlane Middle School in Indianapolis, IN who got up on a Saturday morning to collect, sort and prepare items for a support bank. The collected items will allow the school to aid families quickly as need arises. For more information visit Westlane’s News Item about the project [...]
TED Talk: Katherine Fulton – You are the future of philanthropy
In this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy — one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big things, even when money is scarce. Giving five practical examples of crowd-driven philanthropy, she calls for a new generation of citizen leaders. cephalexin monohydrate for dogs pills ceftin expiration date price [...]
Bluevine Exclusive: Middle School Class Works Together To Make A Difference
The Bluevine Collective recently visited Westlane Middle School in Indianapolis, IN to talk with a teacher and a class who turned a school assignment into a chance to help those in their community. Watch as Stanley Abell talks with the teacher who empowered her students to make a difference, even at a young age. Also, [...]
Better Together
Soul Searching By Stanley Abell This is the sound of all of us Singing with love and the will to trust “Once Voice” ~The Wailin’ Jennys Have you ever thought about some of the unassuming marketing messages you see on products or services at the store or around town? For instance, “new and improved taste,” [...]
How Connected Are We?
Geared Global By Kelly Campbell As I write this article, I am in the most serene of environments. I can hear the crickets chirping and the cows moo-ing… I can see the gibbons swing from tree to tree….I can almost taste the rice that will be harvested from the rice paddies that surround me. Children [...]
Why I Believe in Social
Miss Meg Goes to Washington Meg Biallas Whenever someone asks me why I love Twitter, I’m initially at a loss of words (because I don’t know where to start!). But then I quickly recover, and my face lights up. I love Twitter – among other social networks – because of what it represents. A friend [...]
What It Means to be “Community”
Geared Global By Kelly Campbell When I think of community, I think of a group of people all sharing common interests. Whether that stems from the same family tree, the same religion or language, the same geographical area, a shared historical background, or a sense of belonging to something, community can appear in many forms. [...]
A Stranger Among Friends
The Chai Life By Lindsey Geller This year was my first Rosh Hashanah as a complete stranger. It’s my second without my family but my first in a place where I knew no one. Spending the holiday in a room full of Jews but with none that I knew was an odd experience. We were [...]