The Doing Good Blog

Education & Youth, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific

It’s a small world, after all

January 1, 2020

Yoga proved helpful in Sheila Habacker’s recovery from her bone marrow transplant. After fully recovering, she became certified as a yoga teacher...

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Health & Wellness, Location-Specific

A New Perspective

August 2, 2019

Written by: Katie Christ For Jordan Thomas, volunteering is not something he does on the side, it is a way of life....

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Education & Youth, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Volunteerism & Community Action

How Sports Initiate Change

June 2, 2019

June Volunteer of the Month: Jimmy Pitts Jimmy Pitts loves sports almost as much as he loves service. Between coaching basketball and...

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Community & Social Services, Education & Youth, Faith & Spirituality, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Volunteerism & Community Action

Love in the Unreached Places

May 3, 2019

Marilin Kelley is spreading love in Nashville. A recent Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) mathematics graduate, Marilin is preparing for graduate school...

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Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Media & Innovation, Volunteerism & Community Action

Vet, Teacher, IT Director, and Volunteer

November 5, 2018

Written by: Anna Lopez Tommy Wolosin is Nashville’s Volunteer of the Month. The Director of Technical Sales and Marketing started his volunteer...

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Education & Youth, Faith & Spirituality, Health & Wellness

Always an Athlete, Always a (TN) Volunteer

October 1, 2018

“Serving others has always been a passion of mine and I will always make service over self a priority,” says Corey Alexander,...

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Education & Youth, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific

June Nashville Volunteer of the Month

June 15, 2018

Written by: Meg Provenzale Anna Claire Bowen has been named Nashville’s Volunteer of the Month. Anna Claire owns her own private practice and...

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Community & Social Services, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Volunteerism & Community Action

Haircuts for a Confident Community

December 4, 2017

Written by Zac Cooper Uncle Classic Barbershop has been chosen as the December Volunteer of the Month due to their Giveback programming,...

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Culture & History, Faith & Spirituality, Government, Military & Public Service, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Volunteerism & Community Action

Advocating for his community

July 1, 2017

Keith McLean Written by: Cole Gray Keith McLean of Franklin is Doing Good’s Nashville Volunteer of the Month for his work in...

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Health & Wellness, Volunteerism & Community Action

Providing prosthetics for all ages

May 10, 2017

Nick Gambill with Leah Burris Written by: Cole Gray Nick Gambill grew up working with his hands. Building decks and remodeling homes...

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Education & Youth, Faith & Spirituality, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Volunteerism & Community Action

Spreading the Light

April 3, 2017

By: Kingsley East “By letting my light shine through volunteer work, I’m able to help others have a better quality of life-...

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Health & Wellness, Volunteerism & Community Action

Fighting for Joy

December 1, 2016

Joyce Wisby volunteering at the Sunny Day Club Written by: Kingsley East Joyce Wisby is this month’s honored volunteer. From the age...

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Education & Youth, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Volunteerism & Community Action

A date, a wedding, & a 3 year old daughter

September 5, 2016

The Harbin Family Michele Harbin began volunteering in 5th grade, continues today, and is passing it on to her daughter. Michele grew...

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Education & Youth, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific

The Road to Success

May 20, 2016

Coach Jermarus McInnis (seated, center) Written by Kingsley East “Instilling success today for a successful tomorrow.” This is the slogan under which...

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Arts (Visual & Performing), Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Volunteerism & Community Action

“All children deserve the same opportunities, regardless of disabilities.”

April 4, 2016

By: Kingsley East Families of disabled children and local communities believe this truth, but it takes workers and volunteers like Annah to...

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Arts (Visual & Performing), Education & Youth, Health & Wellness, Volunteerism & Community Action

Asha, Lori & Ghandi

January 1, 2016

 VSA Tennessee Ambassadors Asha Patel, a junior at MTSU, was encouraged by MTSU Communications Professor Lori Kissinger to look into the collegiate...

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Animals & Environment, Health & Wellness

Rhonda Clark is Paying it Forward

September 4, 2014

Rhonda M. Clark On Valentine’s Day 2008, after a four-year wait, Rhonda Clark was paired with the love of her life –...

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Education & Youth, Health & Wellness

Karen Shayne is Transforming a Mood into a Movement

February 5, 2014

When Karen Shayne finished her last chemotherapy treatment for cancer she was declared “in remission” and a “survivor.” She looked in the...

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Health & Wellness

Passion Drives Cancer Survivor Navita Gunter

January 6, 2014

Fifteen years ago Navita Gunter was “attacked” by cervical cancer.  It was a very hard time but she fought the good fight,...

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Arts (Visual & Performing), Community & Social Services, Culture & History, Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Volunteerism & Community Action

Felicia Anchor Volunteers to Eradicate Injustice

November 5, 2013

As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Felicia Anchor has come to understand that we live in a world where the random circumstances...

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Arts (Visual & Performing), Government, Military & Public Service, Health & Wellness

Mickey Milam Helps First Responders in Need

October 2, 2013

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...

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Education & Youth, Health & Wellness, Volunteerism & Community Action

Giving through Volunteering Brings Healing and Blessings in Return

July 1, 2013

Jocelyn McCoy First her mother died from cancer. Eighteen months later her father died.  Jocelyn McCoy was devastated.  But with time and...

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Health & Wellness, Location-Specific, Volunteerism & Community Action

Why do you volunteer?

April 30, 2013

What leads someone to become a volunteer?  For Rachel Moore it started early.  While still in school in Hickman County, Tennessee, she...

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