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	<title>Whatcom Volunteer Center &#187; family</title>
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		<title>Another successful Human Race!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 4 p.m. on Friday, June 11 we discovered that our 10K route for the Human Race was being torn up by construction. This is not the kind of news you want to find out the day before a huge event. Not only are there hundreds of race participants, but we spent months tirelessly organizing [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whatcomvolunteer.org/?p=2699</guid>
		<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>Have your awards event and eat ice cream too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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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>Nonprofit to Know #5: Bikers Fighting Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ray and Patrick, an unlikely pair both personally battling Cancer. Ray, an 11 year old boy, told his friend Patrick (49 years old) that he wanted to belong to a biker club when he got older. Together, they designed patch with a logo crossing out the grim reaper, came up with a motto, and created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Warm-Up Warming Hearts</title>
		<link>http://www.whatcomvolunteer.org/project-warm-up-warming-hearts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many hours would it take you to knit or crochet more than 3,200 pieces of warm items?
3,296 scarves, hats, blankets, mittens to be exact: this is a result of piles and piles of yarn in our entranceway, monthly knitting circles all year long, people coming in and out of our office taking yarn and bringing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonprofit to Know #4: Assistance League</title>
		<link>http://www.whatcomvolunteer.org/nonprofit-to-know-4-assistance-league/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.whatcomvolunteer.org/?p=2370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right, shopping can support children, domestic violence victims and senior citizens!
Have &#8220;no idea&#8221; what Assistance League is? It&#8217;s okay, Zach, Max, Steven and Brad of Western Washington University didn&#8217;t either&#8230;until one fateful day when they volunteered there to fulfill a class requirement and walked away with much more than class credit.
Assitance League is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonprofits to Know #3: Communities In Schools</title>
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		<comments>http://www.whatcomvolunteer.org/nonprofits-to-know-3-communities-in-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One in three kids in Whatcom County will fail to graduate from high school.  I hope you agree with me that even one high school dropout is a real problem: one we can solve together.
My Name is Dennis  D&#8217;Amelio and I work with Communities In Schools of Whatcom County.  I am writing this personal note [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Volunteering Has Meant to Me</title>
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		<comments>http://www.whatcomvolunteer.org/what-volunteering-has-meant-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by: Lacey Kara, Western Washington University student
I moved to  Bellingham, WA from Boston, MA at the beginning of my sophomore year of high  school. Not knowing anybody or having any other “niche,” I joined our high  school’s volunteer organization called “Key Club.” I felt like I would be  accepted here, if [...]]]></description>
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