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Miranda Everitt Stenger's Blog – April 2010 Archive (4)

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