First, there is the value of pro bono volunteer service to the individual and the practical skills acquisition for employees.
The start-up aims to help adults over age 50 in southeast Michigan transition to new careers, entrepreneurship and volunteer service.
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But what about the volunteer service of the National Guard and Reserves?
The move in New York also invites discussion around the tangible value of pro bono or skills-based volunteer service to the larger community.
The volunteer service would be part of the force's Country Watch team and could start in May if there is enough interest and skill from existing staff.
Lee and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake have agreed that the winning mayor would host the mayor from the opposing team for a day of volunteer service with AmeriCorps members.
The council has extended the eight-month consultation by three months to give town and parish councils, schools and community groups time to find their own funding or to organise a volunteer service.
In 1990, the Municipality of El-Agustino District, located in the Metropolitan area of greater Lima in Peru, asked the German Volunteer Service (DED) for technical assistance to ameliorate the burning problems of waste management within the district boundaries.
Many of the referenced studies by anti-military groups focus on Vietnam Era, pre-All Volunteer Force service, and the circumstances have changed drastically since.
The purpose of this experiment in global citizenship is to try to involve the public to share experiences in community service, gather ideas and techniques, and have an open discussion on how to handle some of the toughest challenges that volunteer and service organizations face.
Carin King, another volunteer with the service that runs the campus ambulance, told CNN that Collier "went out of his way" to get to know the student emergency medical technicians (EMTs).
If the immorality of the Vietnam War was the only reason those lucky enough to go to college dodged the draft, why did we not encourage our children to volunteer for military service once that war was done?
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Nearly 500 leaders from business, foundations, universities and politics are meeting to "celebrate the power and potential of citizen service" and lay out a plan to address "America's greatest social challenges through expanded opportunities for volunteer and national service, " according to the organizers' Web site.
One important trend in the 1990s has been an increase in the number of students who volunteer time for community service, such as tutoring disadvantaged pupils or visiting in retirement homes.
Ms Simpson believes special constables, who volunteer their time to the service, have the potential to play a wider-reaching role.
Dozens of Forest Service personnel and volunteer firefighters responded.
Insurance companies went along with it because it allowed them to shift some of their costs onto taxpayers, and fire fighters went along with it because it turned what was formerly volunteer work into paid civil service.
Matt Gluyas from Stithians will spend three months as an International Citizen Service (ICS) volunteer.
First, the U.S. military is an all-volunteer force, which means that service members freely choose to take on both the obligations and benefits of military life.
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One beneficiary of the service surge, the volunteer organization New York Cares, reports a 30 percent increase in prospective volunteers attending orientation sessions in January compared with the same period in 2008, and a monumental 75 percent increase from February 2008 to February 2009.
It also offers a careers advice service, information bureau, volunteer centre and outreach services.
Retirees who take part in the service might be expected to volunteer, or work part-time in so-called social enterprises.
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In 2011, 50 percent of Intel employees donated over 1.1million hours of service through the Intel Involved volunteer program - an average of 13 hours per employee - at 5, 100 schools and nonprofit organizations in 45 countries.
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One is national service full-time volunteer work, usually done by 18-25-year-olds and organised by federal bureaucracies.
It should also be noted that, until the U.S. military became an all-volunteer force, it compensated and treated its service members more like cannon-fodder.
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But Several bloggers quickly noticed that the maps bore a striking similarity to OpenStreetMap, an open-source map service with over 400, 000 volunteer contributors worldwide.
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