- ARCHIVE / Newsflash
- Taproot: Volunteering that Matters
I’ve recently begun work on my first Taproot Foundation volunteer project–in this case, working with a team of other professionals to conceive, design, write, and develop a website for the Urban Community Center of East New York.
This is certainly the most unique volunteer experience I’ve ever had. In the past, my volunteer work usually consisted of manual labor or just giving money. I did build a website once, a long time ago, for the Housing Works bookstore–but the project was my idea and I worked alone, with little client input; the site was a “success” by only the broadest definition (i.e., it existed where before there was nothing).
Taproot is one of those experiences that recalibrates your expectations of and enthusiasm for what a volunteer organization can offer.
- Helping the Urban Green Partnership
Grim or green? Like every other big city (and quite a few smaller ones), Philadelphia is facing one of those two choices for its future. Skyrocketing energy costs, pollution-related threats, traffic and population issues, and the spectre of global warming have steadily crept to the foreground in the city called the birthplace of American democracy. Officials have begun taking steps to address these challenges, but here, as in the rest of the country, progress has been sporadic and the payoff unpredictable.
The Urban Green Partnership (UGP) formed to help speed the greening of Philly, by bringing together architects, universities, engineers, green tech experts, local business leaders and philanthropists. The UGP’s primary goal to date: ensure the construction of the world’s biggest, smartest, greenest mixed-use building in America–with retail space, research facilities, and private apartments–in the middle of an established Philly neighborhood.
- Animated Online Promo Hits the Web
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