MATTERbox Update As another year winds down, our MATTERbox team has been reflecting on all the good that has been accomplished this year through collaboration with our incredible partners. We are so very grateful for our corporate partners, our community partners and our amazing volunteers who give so generously of their time, effort, and resources […]
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Welcome to our monthly update on projects that have launched or will soon be launching at MATTER. Ukraine Project: Medical Relief Earlier this month we featured Marco DuBois, an ER nurse from Blaine who works at Allina Health’s Mercy Hospital – Unity Campus. Marco was preparing to travel to Ukraine with medical supplies from MATTER. He was
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Meet Caitlin. A student at The Blake School in Hopkins, 13-year-old Caitlin is one of MATTER’s young volunteers with an inspirational volunteer story. Back in 2020, Caitlin began participating in an optional Service Pathway program through her school that encourages students to volunteer during their free time. This inspired her whole family to volunteer. They
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MATTERnation is continuing to expand and advance MATTER’s mission of helping people launch projects that improve communities welcoming new staff and facilitating numerous impactful engagement events around the country. We recently welcomed Dena Maounis to the MATTER team. Dena lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and is our new Nonprofit Engagement Event Sales Representative for the
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November is the time of year to reflect on what we’re grateful for and here at MATTER, we’re very grateful for our volunteers. Because of their generous efforts, we’re able to launch incredible projects that help improve communities next door and around the world. MATTER’s volunteers are a diverse bunch. From students to soccer moms
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What Is Charitable Team Building? Charitable team building is one of the best ways for companies to improve employee engagement, satisfaction, and enthusiasm. When businesses provide volunteer opportunities that their workers can participate in together, such as a charity team building event, whether in-person or virtually, meaningful interpersonal connections are strengthened, and overall enthusiasm for
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Winston Churchill is quoted as saying, “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” No truer expression could describe two of MATTER’s longest-serving volunteers, Rod and Marge Jenkins. They built their lives around giving to others and giving back to their community. Faithfully volunteering with MATTER
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“They love it now that they’re needed again. They’ve been wanting to help but because of COVID, they haven’t been able to get out into the community. They feel proud and happy to be volunteering at MATTER. They’re even trying to recruit other students because they feel it’s such an important thing to do.” –
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MATTER is a group of problem solvers, innovators, dreamers, and above all, Doers. We’re not content to sit around wishing the world was a better place, we work to make it one. And we do so with the support of an amazing community of volunteers. This small army of faithful Doers wants to see more
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What Is Virtual Volunteering? The idea of ‘virtual volunteering’ has become more popular with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Also called ‘digital volunteering’, ‘online volunteering’ or ‘cyber volunteering’, volunteering this way is a virtual opportunity that’s been around since the rise of the Internet in the 1990s but hasn’t really taken hold
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