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Erin Harris: Aligning Personal Values with Meaningful Action

January 20, 2025doinggoodtv

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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Volunteering with Friends – It’s Just Fun!

April 5, 2022Doing Good InternDisabilities,Education,Hunger,Nashville,Youth(0)

Written by: Terri Seydel In many ways, Phillip Hyams is a typical American teenager, balancing his time between school, sports, and friends. He attends Brentwood...

Giving the Gift of Time

April 2, 2022Doing Good InternAt-risk Youth,Building Communities,Immigrants,Nashville,Poverty,,Volunteerism,Youth(0)

Life experiences are often the best teachers and influencers of how we form our values and priorities. This has become powerfully evident in the mindful...

A Mother’s Story

March 24, 2022Doing Good Internaddiction,Advocate,Health,Mental Health,Suicide Prevention(0)

“I get more from volunteering than I give,” says Denise Stewart. “It gives me joy to watch how much NAMI’s programs that I teach, train...

Featured Volunteer: Robin Cole

March 10, 2022Doing Good InternAfrican-American Community,Education,Literacy,Nashville,Poverty,Reading,Youth(0)

Our featured volunteer Robin shares her story of why she volunteers with Read to Succeed!...

Out of Blessings Came a Call to Volunteer

March 1, 2022Doing Good InternBlog,Homelessness,Hunger,Poverty,Volunteerism(0)

Written by: Terri Seydel Volunteers don’t often have the privilege of knowing the positive impacts of their work. This is not the case for Bill...

Featured Volunteer

February 23, 2022Doing Good InternAfrican-American Community,At-risk Youth,Guiding Youth,Sports,Volunteerism,Youth(0)

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Volunteering to Change the Course of a Life

February 15, 2022Doing Good InternAfrican-American Community,Arts,Historical Preservation,Media and Technology,Museums,Overcoming Gang Violence,Preserving African-American History,Volunteerism(1)

Written by: Terri Seydel Would you like to change any of the decisions you made as a teenager? We’d probably all like to turn the...

A League Leaving Legacy

March 16, 2021doinggoodtvUncategorized(0)

Written by: Gunnar Eng This month’s Nashville’s Volunteer of the Month, Britney Gannon, originally joined Junior League of New York looking to continue a tradition...

Keeps You Coming Back

January 3, 2021doinggoodtvUncategorized(0)

One would think after almost 40 years of volunteering, Frannie Martin would be ready to call it quits and hang up the towel for good...

Volunteering: Not always glamorous, but

ByDoing Good Intern May 10, 2022 Animals,Disabilities,Youth

Anna Kate Roberson is a determined fourteen-year-old who doesn’t let her autism diagnosis get in the...

Offering Opportunities, Reaching Potential

ByDoing Good Intern May 3, 2022 Disabilities,Education,Exercise,Health,Medical Disabilities,Nashville

Growing up with a sister with Down Syndrome, Elizabeth Graham Pistole has a strong passion for...

Just Go for It!

ByDoing Good Intern April 26, 2022 Empowerment for Women,Homelessness,Poverty,Youth

Written by: Terri Seydel It was an elementary holiday event that sparked an interest in her to help...