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You Get More When You Give

Posted on 12/27/2012 by Becky Gillan | AARP Blog Author | Comments

AARP Research | Volunteering | Work | Your LifeFor my avid followers (are you out there?), you may recall that I previously described my trials during Super Storm (why can’t we all just call it a Hurricane) Sandy, and the random (or not so random) acts of kindness I experienced. In the research world we call this “informal” volunteering: people helping out neighbors. It seems a lot of folks help out in this informal way in addition to volunteering for organizations or charitable groups. AARP recently released a …

Surviving Sandy: ‘I Raised My Hand’

Posted on 11/21/2012 by Sondra Forsyth | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Bulletin Today | VolunteeringThis is the last in a series of profiles of New York area residents whose worlds were upended by Superstorm Sandy and the people who responded to help them. Day after day, Bob Tulipan led teams of relief volunteers to the areas hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy. One day the Rockaways; Staten Island the next. There was a mission dubbed “Operation Muck-Out” because scores of willing hands banded together to clean the residue and mold from homes that were …

Volunteering: This is Serious Happy Business

Posted on 10/19/2012 by AARP Illinois | All the news that matters for Illinoisans over 50. | Comments

Your LifeIt’s Friday Everybody! Jenn here from the Illinois communications team blogging this week on some of our awe-inspiring volunteers. Let’s admit it — the news these days is downright depressing. In fact, I can’t even watch the Chicago news at all or I’ll have nightmares. That’s why it was so great to spend two days last week at the annual AARP Volunteer Leadership Summit or (VLS) with some of our most inspiring, intriguing and intelligent volunteers. We had our advocacy vols, …

A Gift to the Nation — Tables, Chairs, a Priceless Legacy of Art

Posted on 10/8/2012 by Steve Mencher | News, Culture, Sights and Sounds | Comments

EntertainmentLinda Kaufman, and her late husband George Kaufman grew up in Norfolk, Va. So did their parents. The Kaufmans developed a passion for collecting early American furniture of the 18th and early 19th centuries, much of which she has promised to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Kaufman modestly calls her collection “some tables and chairs” but the National Gallery of Art, which will house and display them, brags that the pieces comprise “one of the largest …

Former NFL Players Give the Gift of Fitness and Fun

Posted on 09/13/2012 by Nolan Harrison III | Volunteering | Comments

VolunteeringOf all the things that we get to do as former players in giving back to the community, in my opinion, the most fun is giving time to the local community children. Last weekend, the NFLPA former players, as part of the NFLPA One Team One Community initiative, visited Monroe Elementary School in Oak Brook Illinois for a day of fitness, fun, and football. The mission of the One Team One Community initiative is to improve the quality of life …

The Takeaway: Boomer Volunteers Needed

Posted on 04/25/2012 by Elizabeth Brown | Brooklyn, NY | Comments

News RoundupsAs more boomers transition from full-time employment to “retirement”—whatever that may mean these days—charities see an opportunity to capitalize on some of their newfound free time.