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Reminder: For all parents out there thinking about sleep away camp for their children, join our free webinar tonight at 7pm ET for advice on how to choose the right camp!

When we celebrate July 4th, it's more than just BBQs and fireworks. It's about community. 🇺🇸 Here are 4 creative ways to show love for your community this Independence Day: 🎉 Host a Local Event: Organize a neighborhood potluck or a local talent show. It's a great way for first-time home buyers and VA buyers to meet their neighbors and build connections. 🌟 Support Local Businesses: Visit farmers' markets, local shops, or dine at a family-owned restaurant. Small actions can make a big impact on local businesses. 👥 Volunteer: Spend a few hours at a community center or participate in a clean-up event. It’s a wonderful way to give back and make our neighborhoods better. 🏡 Share Your Home Buying Story: For many, owning a home is the American dream. Sharing your journey can inspire others, especially first-time and VA buyers. This July 4th, let's make our communities stronger and more connected. Happy Independence Day! 🎆 How do you plan to celebrate and give back to your community?

Discover how you can have a voice by joining Excite’s Board or Volunteer Committee. Your skills, your voice – a community transformed. Learn more at excitecu.org https://bit.ly/46PChJ2

Dive into our most recent issue of Heritage and discover how planned giving can create your legacy at Texas A&M.

Watch this video to learn how we celebrated Rocket Companies reaching 1 million volunteer hours nationwide!

This is one of the ways I fill my 'community bucket' - by volunteering at the Ottawa Community Foundation, on the board, the Grants Committee and the Impact Investing Committee. If you are not familiar - OCF is your community impact broker, helping to bring together so many parts of Ottawa, to pool together our funds and use that to re-invest in our community. We connect people looking for ways to invest their funds for the good of the community (donors), with local nonprofits/charities (service providers) serving those who can really use that investment (community members or causes). And the causes we support are driven by what's needed and what's important to the people who make up our city - so range from social services to health to education to arts and culture to heritage to environment to animal rights. I love volunteering here because it helps me feel connected to the heartbeat of Ottawa across all of our diversity - from grassroots local community groups to donors and funders to business leaders to policy makers. As individuals we are each plugged into to different parts of our city, geographically or sectorally or demographically. But here, we are all united through our common interest in making our city a better place for everyone. So here's a little window into the amazing work that's happening in our city everyday, thanks to all these different folks coming together, each doing our part, to lift each other up. Grant Jameson Susan Scotti Carol Devenny FCPA, FCA, CBV, ICD.D Susan St. Amand, TEP, FEA, ICD.D Tracey Clark Simon Kennedy Tim Redpath Michael Maidment Grace Xin Tais McNeill Rebecca Aird #Ottawa #Community #Leaders #Impact #Volunteering #Giving #Granting #ImpactInvesting #CommunityFoundations

Today is Giving Day at Georgia Tech! Did you know that 33% of the Georgia Tech experience is funded by donors like you, in the classroom and beyond? Learn more and give at https://lnkd.in/eMJ-eABM.

Help break the pipeline.

Every week at Cause Communications we speak to young people whose lives have been turned around by youth workers. Their stories never fail to give me hope at a time when everything feels so bleak. Children spend 84 per cent of their lives outside of school, and yet few of us think about what they're up to until something serious happens, as in Croydon recently. Only when something truly tragic happens does the cry go out for investment in youth services. In the meantime, staff at Youth Zones (state-of-the-art youth clubs) founded by our incredible client OnSide youth charity, are mentoring young people, helping them manage and overcome mental health issues, delivering hot nutritious meals, finding their passion - whether it's laying down tracks or learning a new language - and just enabling them to have fun to the power of 11. Their youth workers perform miracles every single day enthusing children who have the most unimaginably difficult lives just because of where they happened to be born. OnSide have just launched this new video. If you work in #CSR, have a think about funding a program. If you're sitting on millions, help build a Youth Zone in one of the more disadvantaged areas of the country. Or just come and volunteer. Invest in the next generation. I can testify, it works. #youthwork #charity #youngpeople #attainmentgap #opportunitygap #levellingup https://lnkd.in/eKwCYEBY

New blog post! In this vulnerable article, our Program Volunteer Athena Samonte explores her time so far in academia, her experience volunteering with SFU Public Square, and the future that lies ahead. Read it now: https://ow.ly/q6TS50RaHuZ