good2gether

Linked from chron.com.

The Houston Chronicle – chron.com – has a link to the Do Good Channel on the home page.

Ike central.

Our Ike response is up in each of our Do Good Channels in Atlanta, Boston, and San Francisco. And we'll be launching Do Good Channels in TX in the next day or so to help. Go to anyone of the channels and click on 'Ike'.

We’re helping the response to Ike!

We've added a new category – Crises. This is where we're rounding up responses to bad things. Hurricane Ike is one of the sub-categories.

We're working with our newspaper partners to organize the response to Ike – nonprofits who are having events, looking for volunteers, in-kind donations, and more.

Here's one of the first listings – the United Way of the Capital Area (in Austin, TX) needs volunteers. If you're in Austin, help them out!

Atlanta 2day.

Man.  I've been in Atlanta a lot in the last couple of months.  Back again today and tomorrow for brand, nonprofit, and media meetings.

Find good to do!

Atlanta Do Good Channel at ajc.com/The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Boston Do Good Channel at boston.com/The Boston Globe.

San Francisco Do Good Channel @ SFGate.com/The San Francisco Chronicle.

Go.  Look.  Do good!

Baltimore, MD.

Taking off first thing from the hotel in DC and heading over to Baltimore for meetings with:

• Humane Society of Baltimore County
• Big Brother Big Sister of Central Maryland
• Business Volunteers Unlimited
• Baltimore Community Foundation
• Association of Fundraising Professionals Maryland
• The Baltimore Sun

From the Corporation for National and Community Service.

On volunteering in America:

• People who live in mid-sized American cities are more likely to volunteer than residents of big cities. The average volunteer rate for mid-sized cities for 2004 to 2007 was nearly 30 percent, three percentage points higher than the average for big cities.

• College towns are hot spots for volunteering. College towns tend to be home not only to many students with strong volunteering habits, but also a lot of highly educated adults. People who graduate from college and seek higher degrees tend to volunteer more than others, research has found. The three top mid-sized cities for volunteer rates — Provo, Utah (64 percent); Iowa City (45 percent); and Madison, Wisc. (42 percent) — are all college towns.

• Utah had the highest volunteering rate in the nation, almost 44 percent, while California had the largest total number of volunteers, 6.3 million.

• While volunteer rates in most states stayed the same or dipped slightly from 2006 to 2007, volunteering grew in other states such as Georgia, Louisiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota.

• People are traveling long distances to volunteer. More than 3.7 million Americans, about 6 percent of all volunteers, worked without pay for charitable causes at least 120 miles from their homes last year, including 1.1 million people who traveled overseas. The trend is especially pronounced in the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina. At least one-quarter of Mississippi’s volunteers and one-fifth of Louisiana’s volunteers last year were out-of-state residents.

• Women volunteer more than men, and working women have the highest volunteer rate. About 29 percent of women volunteered last year, compared with roughly 23 percent of men. Women with children and women who work have higher volunteer rates than other women.

Houston, TX.

Meetings in Houston today with the Greater Houston Community Foundation, Volunteer Houston, the YMCA of Greater Houston, and Association of Fundraising Professionals, Houston Chapter.

San Antonio, TX.

Meeting today with Big Brother Big Sister of South Texas, San Antonio Area Foundation, Nonprofit Resource Center of Texas, and the United Way of San Antonio & Bexar County.

The driving to Houston for more meetings tomorrow.

Boston to Austin to San Antonio to Houston to Boston.

Down to Texas this week to work on the Do Good launches in Austin, San Antonio, and Houston, and then back to Boston on Friday for more meetings.