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Meet Carol Laughlin!

Let's give a warm HOBA welcome to Carol! Meet Carol Laughlin, the newest member of the HOBA team. Carol joined us July 1 as project manager for the last quarter of the federally granted Habitat Restoration project known as VIRE. If you work on any of our RESTORE HABITAT projects, you'll be seeing and hearing from her soon!

"I'm excited to be working on such an important environmental initiative and with such dedicated volunteer project leaders," Carol…

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Added by Miranda Everitt Stenger on July 2, 2010 at 1:53pm — No Comments

PL Spotlight: Donald Cooper

After last year's Be the Change Day project at the Gardens at Lake Merritt, our Development Manager Donald Cooper developed a monthly calendar project that gets him out of HOBA HQ a least once a month! Meet him yourself at the Gardens every third Saturday, and at special Tuesday night projects this summer.

What’s your favorite HOBA project (and why)?…

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Added by Miranda Everitt Stenger on May 18, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

PL Spotlight: Annie Suzio-Granett

Annie Suzio-Granett has probably one of the best jobs in San Francisco. As a Corporate Project Leader and now an AmeriCorps VISTA, she's led memorable projects like a Mad Hatter Tea Party, painting school murals alongside Mickey Mouse, and setting up a photo booth at Julian St. Inn so that their clients might have a picture of themselves and their loved ones.

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Added by HandsOn Bay Area on May 3, 2010 at 4:29pm — 4 Comments

Lead the Change on Oct. 2

Gandhi once said, "you must be the change you want to see in the world." Our next annual Be the Change Day, when we will mobilize 1,000 volunteers to transform their communities for the better, is Oct. 2, 2010.

We're accepting applications for the leaders central to this awesome effort starting…

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Added by Miranda Everitt Stenger on April 27, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

PL Spotlight: Kelly Chang

Meet Kelly Chang, a HOBA Project Leader since 2009 who has also captained a TeamWorks series, been on our Leadership Institute Fellowship Team (LIFT), led at Coit Tower on 2009's Be the Change Day, and just been an all-around PL Superstar. Ask anyone at HOBA, and they'll tell you they wish we had 1,000 Kellys!

What’s your favorite HOBA project (and why)?

I have two…

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Added by Miranda Everitt Stenger on April 23, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

PL Spotlight: Manjesh Gorajala

What’s your favorite HOBA project (and why)?

Sacred Heart- Huge percentage of the worlds population goes to sleep hungry. I wanted to help the homeless and hunger. Sacred Heart is a great place for that, we do a variety of activities like sorting the donated clothes, helping at the donation center, clearing up the card boards for recycling and my fav - filling up the paper bags with groceries which are distributed to the needy on a weekly basis.The people who work at…

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Added by Miranda Everitt Stenger on April 20, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

E-mail sign-ups

Our new-member registration fee has brought in more than $1,000 for HOBA since it began on March 15. More than half of our new volunteers have chosen to support their service with $25 or more. At this rate, it looks like the fee will be able to cover about 20% of the cost of the calendar.

But the new fee has confused a few people who opt not to donate and wonder why certain projects are closed to them. Those who don't fill out a fee waiver form and don't donate…

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Added by Miranda Everitt Stenger on April 5, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

PL Spotlight: Colette Jappy

Colette Jappy has been a HOBA volunteer since 2003, and a Project Leader since 2008, with more than 450 hours of volunteering ... so far. You can find her leading Project Open Hand twice a month in downtown San Francisco -- a project with dessert!

What’s your favorite HOBA project (and why)?

POH is my favorite. The POH staff is wonderful & fun & the chef usually makes us dessert as a treat. I enjoy the POH volunteers &…

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Added by HandsOn Bay Area on April 2, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

PL Spotlight: Kelly Russell Turner

OOPS! Looking for our PL Spotlight on Manjesh Gorajala? Click here!

With more than 480 hours of HOBA service under her belt, Kelly Russell Turner is helping to tackle hunger and comfort families by leading projects at Martin de Porres and…

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Added by HandsOn Bay Area on March 30, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Groups

Sometimes school groups, service fraternities, or a group of friends will look to HOBA for an opportunity to volunteer together. We encourage people to volunteer with their friends, club members and classmates -- however, we have some guidelines to ensure the needs of our nonprofit partners are met.

We've seen in practice that our policy is a little unclear, so we'll share what it is now and ask for some input from you all out in the field on how to make it better.

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Added by Miranda Everitt Stenger on March 15, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

PL Spotlight: Miranda Everitt Stenger

Tim Szarnicki, Blake Brown and Miranda on their way to a HOBA VISTA team-building event!…

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Added by HandsOn Bay Area on March 12, 2010 at 5:00pm — 4 Comments

PL Spotlight: Tim Szarnicki

Meet Tim Szarnicki, a HOBA PL since 2009 with nearly 200 hours of service under his belt (and that's just with HOBA!). He's now serving his AmeriCorps VISTA term with us as Nonprofit Partner Coordinator.…

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Added by HandsOn Bay Area on March 5, 2010 at 11:30am — 4 Comments

PL Spotlight: Jessica Sutton

Meet Jessica Sutton, a HOBA PL since 2009 with more than 325 hours of HOBA volunteering under her belt. She's now serving her AmeriCorps VISTA term with us as Project Leader Coordinator.