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Giving as a Family

Author
JENNY FRIEDMAN
Executive Director, Doing Good Together
Do you wish to cultivate compassion, kindness, and community responsibility in your children? How can you teach them firsthand that their efforts can improve other's lives and our world? What are some fun ways to spend time together and strengthen your family? Here are five tips to help you explore the benefits and delights of family volunteering!

Encourage all family members to help select volunteer opportunities. The more engaged everyone is in the selection process, the more committed all will be to the chosen projects. Think about

Footnotes/Endnotes

ON THE WEB!

Hands On Twin Cities, handsontwincities.org

Volunteer Match,
volunteermatch.org

Do It Green! Minnesota, to find a local environmental organization,
doitgreen.org

Read Up!

The Busy Family's Guide to Volunteering, by Jenny Friedman, Robins Lane Press, 2003.

The Giving Box: Create a Tradition of Giving with Your Children, by Fred Rogers, Running Press, 2000.

Act Locally!

Doing Good Together
Minneapolis, MN
612-822-6502
doinggoodtogether.org

Travel That Mirrors Your Values

Author
Eden Rock
Global Citizens Network

World travel can be a wonderful way to promote peace, gain understanding, and create friendship between people of different cultures. At the same time travel and tourism, by its very nature of increasing the flow of people and use of resources in an area, can contribute to economic inequalities or cultural and environmental degradation. “Responsible tourism” is a movement that seeks to combat the potential negative impact of travel and protect and preserve local people, including their land and economy.

Footnotes/Endnotes
  • Global Journal of Practical Ecotourism
    www.planeta.com
  • www.volunteerinternational.org
  • Rethinking Tourism and Ecotravel, Deborah McLaren 2003.
  • The Global Citizen: A Guide to Creating an International Life and Career, Elizabeth Kruempelmann 2002.
  • Global Citizens Network
    130 N. Howell St., St. Paul, MN
    651-644-0960 or 800-644-9292
    www.globalcitizens.org
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