Last Monday, exiting the office back door onto Joachim Street, the office manager, Erica Berger, and I encount...
Read moreAll nonprofits rely on volunteers – they make our world go round. They offer extra hands, time, ideas, donat...
Read moreWhen I was a little girl, I knew that I was going to have a career. My Barbie dolls had careers, and I really ...
Read moreThe Reverend David L. Frazier, Sr. served as the keynote speaker speaker for this year’s Port City Chapt...
Read moreThe holidays and the end of the year bring about a nostalgia for holidays’ past and force us to face, all to...
Read more“One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we co...
Read moreWhen Leslie Schraeder sent this month’s topic to me, I had no idea what World Listening Day was. According t...
Read moreIt was the summer of 1978 when my friend, I’ll call her Dinah, called me to tell me that she couldn’t come...
Read moreThe nonprofit organization Mental Health America’s “work is guided by its Before Stage 4 (B4Stage4) philos...
Read moreThe Learning Exchange has announced, “The National Volunteer Week theme for 2022 (April 24-30, 2022), Volun...
Read moreBy Jill Chenoweth I have spent the majority of my professional life in the company of women. The women have co...
Read moreEvery new year brings hope for me that I will morph into the best me; obviously, this has not occurred, so for...
Read moreDecember brings a hope for all that is good in the world to manifest itself, a hope for joyous days celebratin...
Read moreIn November, the Nonprofit World Celebrates itself – Nonprofit Awareness Month. I have struggled to write ...
Read moreThe month of October hosts 111 National Awareness Campaigns – everything from National Go on a Field Trip Da...
Read moreSometimes, old dogs and old broads can learn new tricks or remember old life lessons. Yesterday, my partner Ja...
Read moreI have a confession to make. I am currently suffering from depression. This is not an easy confession for me...
Read moreJuly marks the celebration of National Culinary Arts Month and celebrates the professional cooks and chefs who...
Read moreAs America celebrates Pride Month, I read many articles regarding its inception, history and the progress made...
Read moreMay is National Mental Health Awareness Month. According to Mental Health America’s 2021 The State of Mental...
Read moreAs with everything else in 2020, the UWSWA’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program was stalled unti...
Read moreGIVE. ADVOCATE. VOLUNTEER. The United Way of Southwest Alabama’s 45 partner agencies provide services in fou...
Read moreWhen the UWSWA management team met early in January to discuss Blog topics for each month this year, we decide...
Read moreOn the first work week day of 2021, I feel a sense of renewal and hope. Friends in recovery remind me that e...
Read moreJohn Maxwell noted that “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” This quote sums up 2020 to me. Fac...
Read moreIn the month of November, we celebrate Nonprofit Awareness. As the United Way of Southwest Alabama, we partner...
Read moreThe staff of the United Way of Southwest Alabama answer this question daily. Here are their responses: “Yo...
Read moreOne of the things that I cannot wrap my head around involves food insecurity in America. How can the greates...
Read more“In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible throu...
Read moreIt’s May, and for those of us along the coast, we know that this means the beginning of the “H” SEASON. ...
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