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Teaching giving
Create a culture of charity in your home! Whether you're picking up litter with your toddler, cooking dinner for a grieving friend, or coordinating a class project, you'll find ideas and inspiration here. |
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11 Fun Family Volunteering Opportunities in and Around Seattle
Restore a Park or Beach It’s hard to beat the tangibility of planting trees, doing battle with invasive plants, or cleaning up a beach. Opportunities abound, especially during Earth Month and many organizations have opportunities all year long. Just by participating, you and your kids learn about
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Giving Back: 16 Seattle-Area Organizations That Offer Help During the Holidays
Looking to give back or volunteer as an individual or a family during this holiday season? There are many great organizations in our area that could always use an extra hand in the kitchen, those old baby clothes stashed away in the closet or most of all, the community's support in helping others w
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Empathy and Education: Cultivating Compassion Skills in Children
Putting Compassion in Action When parents, teachers and experts talk about education, what typically come up are subjects like reading, writing, arithmetic. But research shows that growing the heart is key to the development of an altruistic, empathetic, kind human being. Our resource-rich Se
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Teaching Compassion: Changing the World Through Empathy and Education
Children are often told in a tone of reprimand by parents and teachers: “How would you feel if they did that to you?” It is essentially the photo negative of the Golden Rule (“do unto others …”). What if that message evolved into a positive set of values, then fused into lesson plans, group activiti
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Get Your Teen Volunteering During National Volunteer Month
The slowly-recovering economy has been especially hard on teens who count on minimum wage jobs to cover expenses and provide experience. The jobs are fewer, and adults who can’t find employment have stepped in to work positions traditionally held by teens. While it won’t bring in spending money, vo
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Volunteering with Kids: Become a Superhero Family
Editor's note: Get more ideas at our new family guide to volunteering! Several years ago, when Heather Smith’s son Benjamin was in kindergarten, she started looking around for opportunities for their family to volunteer together. After some searching, they signed up at Food Lifeline, a Shoreline-ba
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Family Guide to Volunteering
Be a Giving Family Plant a tree, sort through donations, grow food, run a diaper drive — if you and your kids want to give back, we've got ideas and inspiration for you!Read on to discover how your family can give back while getting out and about and learning about the issues that shape our co
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The Benefits of Volunteering for Teens
When she arrived in the Eastern Washington farming community of Wapato last spring for a six-day school service trip, Overlake High School junior Caroline Spencer expected to learn about migrant farm workers’ issues and work alongside them in apple orchards. What she didn’t expect was that her exper
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