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Cover letters that prove you’re not a flake
Yesterday, a friend asked for feedback on a cover letter she was preparing. She’s a recent grad from Stanford, with an incredible passion for eliminating homelessness, and a track record of achieving...
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Seven Tips for Organizing a Fulfilling Volunteer Experience
Bottom Line: Volunteer projects over the last two days were a study in contrasts. One very mental, one more physical. Both fulfilling. Seven things that they both got right to make it a good...
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Climate Change and Big Carbon
Bottom Line: Climate change signs are coming through stronger now than ever before, and faster than scientists anticipated. The droughts in India and the US bode ill for food prices later this year,...
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3 Ways to Think About Legacy Giving
Bottom Line: If you have kids under age 18, and you don’t have a will which establishes your chosen guardian for them, you should fix that right away. Beyond that, your bequests say a lot about your...
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Struggle for Control of Grameen Bank
Bottom Line: The Grameen Bank, one of the landmark institutions for assisting the poor of Bangladesh, and receiving a Nobel for its role in establishing microcredit, has become a political football....
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Book pending approval for printing!
Woo-hoo! After some last minute fiddling with my ISBN, I submitted Giving Back to CreateSpace this afternoon. CreateSpace is Amazon’s subsidiary for self-published, print-on-demand works. Over the...
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Books on their way!
In spite of my concerns about submission guidelines, CreateSpace approved the printing of Giving Back, and the first copies are now on their way to me in the mail, and should be here in time for the...
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Busy day: finalizing text, domain and first event!
Finalizing the Text Due to some tight deadlines, in order to have copies for the event tonight, I had to approve the printing “sight unseen” (well, I’d reviewed many drafts and the “digital proof”...
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Stanford Grads Lead Building of Hospital in India
(Excerpt from Giving Back) Stanford Grads Lead Building of Hospital in India Five twenty-something Stanford alumni, united by their student volunteering experience in India over the course of a decade,...
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