By Carrie Daut, Friends of the Orphans alumna You don’t need to be an Einstein to know that coming back to the States after a year in Guatemala was certainly an adjustment. Ignoring the much more complicated emotional-mental-heart side of it, let’s just skip right to the nitty gritty part. What were the five strangest […]

This month, we will be exploring some themes of sustainability and the environment leading us up to Earth Day celebrations. This is the first installment of our Earth Day tribute. By Jim Lindsay, Catholic Volunteer Network Executive Director When most Christians hear the word “stewardship,” they probably think of how they handle their time, talent […]

As Congress is still debating the budget, the Points of Light Institute is hosting “All Together Now – A Celebration of Service” at The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., to honor President George H. W. Bush for his visionary leadership in the American service movement. The event will bring together […]

Submitted by John DiTillo, The Haitian Project Volunteer (’08 Volunteer – Present) Haitian rice and beans with steak and mango salsa –a delicious, organic, can’t-get-more-local-than-this meal. Every couple of weeks a bull lumbers onto the Louverture Cleary School campus and lives on our soccer field for a few days, awaiting his inevitable induction into a savory […]

It’s amazing to us how technology has changed the way we experience the world. For example, just 10 years ago when I started looking for my volunteer program, I relied mostly on my printed copy of Response, brochures I found from various programs, word of mouth and the telephone to connect to the programs directly. Now, […]