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Giving Away Your Success

Give away your success. At least some of it. Ultimately, it's what makes getting up each day worthwhile.READ»

A New Way to Really Connect Your Business -- With Your Business Card

Every business card brings with the hope of anchoring who you are at some later point in time and, hopefully, ensuring you stand out in the world. Now B1G1 makes it possible to make each business card you hand out a charitable voucher.READ»

Free Rice: Feed the Hungry, Spruce Up Your English

On one of my more lethargic post-lunch procrastination sessions recently, after a particularly soporific curry, I stumbled upon Free Rice, a site that a friend had sent me a while ago but I hadn't really taken the time to look at. ...READ»

Thursday is Careday

This Thurday marks the launch of Caredays, a monthlong service-stravaganza facilitated by the Center for Companies that Care. Caredays is an annual, national initiative to engage individuals and employers in activities that foster ...READ»

The Season for Giving

It's that time of year. The time when folks start focusing on loved ones -- and, well, giving. Some of us are even thinking about the charitable contributions that we can make by year's end. This year, the Case Foundation, a ...READ»

Blogging Hurricane Relief

The devastation Hurricane Katrina has wrought has been overwhelming and difficult to process. I'm sure many of you out there feel powerless to do anything to help. Kudos then to Strengthen the Good for its efforts to harness the ...READ»

Pay It Forward

Have you received important support in your professional (or personal) life from an unlikely source, beyond family and close friends? I have... and it has committed me to "paying it forward." I haven't had the good fortune of many ...READ»

Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger

When I arrived at work this morning, I had a brown paper bag at my desk that I've been instructed to put money into. No, there's nothing untoward taking place here, just a great idea to give something back. Monday is Skip Lunch, ...READ»