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Erin Harris: Aligning Personal Values with Meaningful Action
Erin Harris embodies the initiative and energy Doing Good enjoys seeing in volunteers. Eight months ago, she founded Un/Do Mindset, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health education and trauma recovery. A former teacher, Erin’s passion for this project is both inspiring and deeply personal. Her teaching career came to a heartbreaking end due to...
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Passion Drives Cancer Survivor Navita Gunter
Fifteen years ago Navita Gunter was “attacked” by cervical cancer. It was a very hard time but she fought the good fight, and today, by...
Partying for Kids Makes Toby Lemley’s Heart Sing
When Toby Lemley moved to Nashville 17 years ago he saw the generosity of the Nashville community and began to understand the value of giving...
Felicia Anchor Volunteers to Eradicate Injustice
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Felicia Anchor has come to understand that we live in a world where the random circumstances of our birth...
Mickey Milam Helps First Responders in Need
By Karen E. Williams When citizens are in trouble they call 9-1-1. They’re confident a First Responder will be there in minutes to help. But...
Leroy Jones Speaks of Hope & “No More Victims”
By Karen E. Williams While growing up Leroy Jones didn’t have any role models for volunteering. But these days he finds priceless rewards in volunteering and...
Volunteering Is In Her Genes
Pam Lewis Pam Lewis says that volunteering and giving back was instilled in her as a kid by both of her parents, especially her dad...
Giving through Volunteering Brings Healing and Blessings in Return
Jocelyn McCoy First her mother died from cancer. Eighteen months later her father died. Jocelyn McCoy was devastated. But with time and the sage advice...
Moving From Success to Significance
You’ve retired from your primary career. You’ve found your second half in another field – something like real estate, for example – and you know...
Why do you volunteer?
What leads someone to become a volunteer? For Rachel Moore it started early. While still in school in Hickman County, Tennessee, she liked to read...
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For Darlene Stephen volunteering is a family affair. “Since childhood I’ve watched my family helping...
There are many issues that need to be addressed in our community, but B.J. Givens believes in making...
When Karen Shayne finished her last chemotherapy treatment for cancer she was declared “in...
Fifteen years ago Navita Gunter was “attacked” by cervical cancer. It was a very hard time but she...
When Toby Lemley moved to Nashville 17 years ago he saw the generosity of the Nashville community...
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Felicia Anchor has come to understand that we live in a...
By Karen E. Williams When citizens are in trouble they call 9-1-1. They’re confident a First...
By Karen E. Williams While growing up Leroy Jones didn’t have any role models for volunteering. ...
Pam Lewis Pam Lewis says that volunteering and giving back was instilled in her as a kid by both of...
