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I was on the Acela with Wonder Woman!

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Took the Acela from NYC to DC and Linda Carter was on the train - that's me in the foreground and her in the back ground.

NYC.

On the Acela down to New York this morning for multiple meetings with potential strategic partners and then the Acela again down to DC tonight for nonprofit meetings over the next couple of days.

And even more new launch partners.

Two new launch partners this week - Community Health Charities of Florida and Volunteers of America.  VoA is our fourteenth national launch partner.  We're very excited to have both on board.

Welcome!

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.

Help buy a school bus!

This is cool – help Epic Change buy a school bus in Tanzania.

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.

This is Jane. Again!

This is Jane
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This is Jane

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And even more launch partners.

More terrific local organizations joining good2gether.

From Tampa, we welcome America's Second Harvest of Tampa Bay and Humane Society of Sarasota County. And joining us from Chicago is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago. New to good2gether is the Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford. And finally, this week brings us Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County in West Palm Beach.

Welcome all!

Want to find a great nonprofit, a terrific volunteering opportunity, a cool event to attend? Check out the Boston.com Do Good Channel (and if you're in some place other than Boston, just change your location and find stuff around you).