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On a Continental Road Trip to Promote Volunteerism With 50Give

A couple of days ago, Keith Donohue was building trail signs for Acadia National Park in Maine. Today he is working at a horse therapy program for autistic children in Vermont. Tomorrow he will be helping out at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. It is all part of his one-man, cross-country volunteer road trip...

Former Presidents Pay Tribute to Bush 41 [VIDEO]

A star-studded group including all of the living ex-presidents gathered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to honor George H.W. Bush for his dedication to volunteering.

It Takes a Village to Build a Home for Conjoined Twins

(July 30) -- At the age of 58, the world's oldest living conjoined twins, Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, have spent plenty of time exhibiting the wonders of the human body. But over the last few months, they've shown that the human spirit can be far more wondrous. During that time, the twins have inspired an entire community...

Background on volunteering

Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life, but people also volunteer for their own skill development, to meet others, to make contacts for possible employment, to have fun, and a variety of other reasons that could be considered self-serving.

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