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	<title>Whatcom Volunteer Center &#187; community</title>
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		<title>House 2 Home success story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A success story about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-funded House 2 Home Network from the Washington State Commerce Department:



House 2 Home Network — Virtual Furniture BankClient Success Story from Opportunity Council
Sam and Monica came to the Opportunity Council to ask about getting some rental assistance. They had found a place to rent and just needed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A growing opportunity in the community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knew that taking a position at Whatcom Volunteer Center as the Outreach Coordinator would result in funky tan lines, calloused hands and a black and blue fingernail. While my hands may be less than aesthetically pleasing at the moment, I smile every time I think of the project responsible. For the last two months, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of School and Out to Volunteer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aly</dc:creator>
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The Chore Program would like to thank the Explorers Club for spending their summer free time to help people in need. On June 12th, this wonderful group of girls spent several hours weeding, mowing, trimming, and raking for two adults with physical disabilities. The beneficiaries couldn&#8217;t be more pleased! One client was in awe of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serving on the Senior Police Force is Fun!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an interesting and fun job where you will see a lot of different things.  I especially like the public appreciation we get when writing tickets for disabled parking violations.  People will come up to us and thank us right as we are doing it!]]></description>
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		<title>HAVING A BLAST IN THE PAST</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatcom Volunteer Center needs people like you to volunteer to cover one or more four hour shifts on Friday, Saturday or Sunday &#38; holidays through Labor Day. ]]></description>
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		<title>House 2 Home Network receives $5,000 grant!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we arrived for our Whatcom Community Foundation site visit, I was nervous. I was there because my supervisor, Dan Hammill, along with Greg Winter of the Whatcom Homeless Service Center, had applied for a $5,000 grant for House 2 Home Network through WCF. It was my job to tell WCF how H2H works day-to-day.
Fortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart and Hands Award Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aly</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whatcomvolunteer.org/?p=2678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the director of the Volunteer Chore Program, I would like to take a moment to recognize some outstanding volunteers I have had the privilege of working with.  The Heart and Hands Awards took place on April 25th, at Bellingham High School. This  year the event recognized outstanding volunteers from non-profits all over  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joining the fight to end homelessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve only been at the Whatcom Volunteer Center for a few days and I have already learned so much. My preconceptions about homelessness in Whatcom County have been completely altered.
Before I came to the Whatcom Volunteer Center I thought homelessness was standing on the street asking for money or holding cardboard signs. I thought being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from a Year at WVC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is farewell and a big, giant, virtual hug to thank you.
For one year, I have been an Americorps VISTA for Whatcom Volunteer Center, and this is my last week. I can&#8217;t believe I squeezed it all into one year: Human Race, Make A Difference Day, Heart and Hands, Project Homeless Connect, thousands of emails, hundreds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PUZZLING DILEMMA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a nonprofit agency gives a service for free, many people don’t understand that the reason they get that free service is because someone else donated money so that agency could continue operating in the community.
 It puzzles me how to get people to commit to helping our agency by donating dollars or participating in [...]]]></description>
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