Discover The Healing Power of Pets for Our Seniors Many seniors have pets and for good reason. Health experts agree that pets can help keep seniors healthy. The benefits are manyfold from experiencing real companionship, getting exercise, creating a daily routine as well as releasing everyday tension. Plus add the benefits of meeting new [...]
Struggling With Your New Year's Resolutions? Starting a new year tends to inspire people to seek personal improvement and make significant changes that can lead to greater fulfillment. These improvements/changes are usually committed to in the form of New Year resolutions. Resolutions often aim to help others, make a difference, and become involved in [...]
Helping Seniors Battle Holiday Loneliness For most people, the holidays are joyous occasions in which they enjoy a home-cooked meal, receive and give gifts, and share time with the people they love. For many, it provides a welcome pause from work and stress and allows them to truly bond with their loved ones. Unfortunately, [...]
What Is Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement that unleashes the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. Created in the U.S. in 2012, Giving Tuesday is now a global movement that promotes generosity among individuals and organizations. The movement centers around the act of giving [...]
Now Is The Perfect Time To Donate As the year draws to an end, businesses and individuals look to close out the year behind them and cast their vision to the new year ahead. For businesses, they tend to reflect on accomplishments and activities, like reaching goals or milestones. For others, however, it can [...]
Helping A Cause Without Donating Money Donating and volunteering are the two most common ways to support a non-profit. In an ideal world, everyone would have the necessary time and money to support all the causes they believe in. However, despite wanting to help, many are simply unable to volunteer or donate money to [...]
5 Questions To Ask When Choosing A Non Profit Every year, thousands of Americans donate to nonprofits for multiple reasons, including wanting to give back, supporting causes they believe in, and the tax benefits that come from donating. The problem is, it’s not always easy to know which nonprofit to donate to or what [...]
COVID-19’s Effect On Nonprofits Most non-profits help others because of funding from individual & corporate donors, as well as from grants and foundations. Traditionally, fundraising is an ongoing initiative that ensures non-profits can continue to help others. But for many non-profits, COVID-19 has shifted fundraising from being important to being vital to their very survival. With most [...]
Volunteering When You're Busy Volunteering is a highly gratifying experience that can benefit not only the individuals involved but entire communities. When it comes to volunteering to help older adults, the benefits are not only psychological but even physical. However, many people feel they are too busy to volunteer and miss out on the [...]
Safe Volunteering In the last couple of months, an interest in volunteerism has increased, in part due to a greater need for volunteers due to COVID-19 and newfound altruism by many. It seems that bad situations often bring out the best in people, and has led many to start or return to volunteering. However, [...]
