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Fourth in the Conari Press Call to Action series, this volume profiles 30 amazing young people who have overcome great personal odds to reach out and help others. First-person accounts include an amputee running in the Paralympics; the son of a cancer patient creating support groups for kids with sick parents; a girl who helped her mother and younger sister as they died of AIDS and who is now an AIDS awareness and prevention volunteer; and one of the students from the Littleton, Colorado, shooting who has created a teen drop-in center. With their stories, these remarkable teens take us to the depths of their struggles and the heights of their newfound sense of purpose and peace..
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Ruth and Linda have combined 40 years of fundraising and training expertise into a compact, fun, easy-to-read and easy-to-follow map for mounting any size silent auction event. From dealing with the panic when you realize the size job you've bitten off, to the letters soliciting donations, to mechanisms for tracking the stuff-the people-the tasks-and the money it is all in there. Even job descriptions for every job on every committee and example notes for saying thanks to everyone involved. This 192 very readable pages covers the territory and does it with charm, grace, and enough humor to keep you turning pages..
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This digital document is an article from The Non-profit Times, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2007. The length of the article is 428 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Fewer people volunteered in 2006.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication:The Non-profit Times (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 21 Issue: 9 Page: 8(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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