Get Out and Give Back – Hoop Dreams Scholarship FundBy Jane Hess
This column is about to take on a new twist – a twist that will hopefully encourage more of you to “get out and give back.” Starting with this story, I’m volunteering with a new organization or event each month then writing about [...]
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Get Out and Give Back
By Jane Hess
This one’s for Janine.
Janine is my co-worker. We share a metal-and-fabric cubicle wall and I know more about her than she thinks.
Janine works full time, raises five kids with her husband and takes night classes for her master’s degree four nights a week. She is also the stealth give-back-er [...]
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Get Out and Give Back
By Jane Hess
Katrina. Until August 29, 2005, that word would evoke a picture of a pretty, five-year-old girl with blond hair in pigtails and wearing a pink tutu. Now, for perhaps decades, the sound of that lovely girl’s name will recall memories of one of the worst natural disasters [...]
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Get Out and Give Back
By Jane Hess
It’s wedding season – and there’s nothing as frustrating as buying gifts for your thirty- and forty-something friends who already have everything they’ll ever need – and then some. Rather than the just-out-of-college newlyweds who are thrilled with Grandma’s sideboard and Crate and Barrel dinnerware, we stress over [...]
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