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Sue Carter Kahl (Volunteer Commons)
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Volunteer engagement, nonprofits, research, books, gardening, mosaics
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yappelbaum.bsky.social
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
suecarterkahl.bsky.social
It takes time, money, expertise, and other resources to engage volunteers well...
coyotebroad.bsky.social coyotebroad (Jayne Cravens) @coyotebroad.bsky.social · 27d
If your nonprofit accommodates people required to do community service, whether because of SNAP or the courts or classroom requirements, track how many #volunteers you're involving because of these programs &...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.
"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? . We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called the economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been, projects of mutual creation." . - David Graeber
October 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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meidastouch.com
Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
October 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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uabookbans.bsky.social
✨ It takes all of us to fight for the freedom to read. Take this NEW #BannedBooksWeek quiz to assess your strengths & uncover your individual advocacy style. At the end, get actions you can take based on your result: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/68d400f64d6f970015d8e11b #UniteAgainstBookBans
What's your Freedom to Read Advocate Personality? Take a quiz to find out! Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Banned Books Week. Oct. 5-11, 2025.
October 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
September 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?
What if we defined the economy as the way we take care of one another? Since that's what it ultimately is/ What wood economic indicators then look like
August 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
suecarterkahl.bsky.social
My co-workers this week include a new batch of baby doves. Their mama made a nest in the patio umbrella outside my window.
July 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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mariapopova.bsky.social
A bird divination for your hardest days from the summer red-bird. Available as a stand-alone print at bit.ly/summerredbird and part of the deck of 100 at almanacofbirds.org
June 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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pmgentry.bsky.social
I love that Lewes, Delaware (pop. 3300), has at least three different local history museums. My theory is that it has so many affluent senior citizens that when they run out of volunteer opportunities for them, they start another museum.
June 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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thesequel.bsky.social
Happening now! and you can jump on using the link below. #NoKings
June 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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aflcio.org
The birthday parade money could pay for 4 million Meals on Wheels meals, enough to cover 10,000 hungry and isolated seniors for an entire year.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
suecarterkahl.bsky.social
"We assume we can have an exploitative, ruthlessly competitive, profit-for-profit's-sake economy, and yet remain a decent and a democratic nation." This Wendell Berry quote lands especially true while reading @brian-goldstone.bsky.social's devastating book on those who are working & homeless.
May 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
"Our results suggest that a social media message would have to be sent by more than 47 constituents for it to exceed the value of a single face-to-face meeting." academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback
Abstract. Social media has made it easier than ever for citizens to voice their opinion to their elected representatives. However, officials may infer that
academic.oup.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
suecarterkahl.bsky.social
The gentle buzzy swish of bees in our lavender is captivating. #bloomscroll
Purple Lavender Bee on purple Spanish lavender
April 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
From, Revolutions in Reverse
Book by David Graeber
"At a moment when the capitalists’ collective refusal to even consider rethinking any of their basic assumptions about the world might well mean not just the death of capitalism, but of almost everything else, our only real choice is do it ourselves – to begin to create a new language & a new common sense, about what people basically are and what it is reasonable for them to expect from the world, and from each other." . - David Graeber
April 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
suecarterkahl.bsky.social
@independentsector.bsky.social released its annual update of the financial value of a volunteer hour (now $34.79). It is often combined with vol numbers & hours to report volunteer value. #volunteer #Nonprofit

www.volunteercommons.com/volunteer-im...
Value of a Volunteer Hour - Volunteer Commons
There is a time and place to use wage replacement rates for the value of a volunteer hour, but not every time nor every place.
www.volunteercommons.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
suecarterkahl.bsky.social
#BLOOMSCROLL
Pot full of dahlias, pansies, and a poppy. Red tulips and white fortnight lilies. Orange ranuculus, purple and orange violas, and purple pansies in a blue pot.
April 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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dynarski.bsky.social
Resistance with slides:

when presenting scientific evidence created by federal data and/or $

tell your audience what they won’t be seeing more of

Slides templates here

https://sites.google.com/view/tobeclear/
ToBeClear It is important for researchers to be clear, factual, and transparent about how federal priorities are affecting research. We therefore want to acknowledge that this work has been impacted by recent United States federal executive actions. This research has been affected by U.S. federal executive actions. Data removed that was used for this study • Example #1 • Example #2 • Example #3 Image Image This research has been affected by U.S. federal executive actions. Data at risk from lack of updating or maintenance due to cuts in personnel or funding used in this study • Example #1 • Example #2 • Example #3 • Example #4 • Sub example • Sub Example • Sub example • Example #5
April 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
suecarterkahl.bsky.social
Perhaps before we revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits, we could ensure billionaires and for-profits are paying their fair share.
colinwoodard.bsky.social Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · Apr 16
Authoritarianism Consolidation 101: weaponize the tax services against civil society, universities, political opponents and dissidents.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Apr 16
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, CNN reports
April 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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junlper.beer
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the book "Administrative Burdens" and it's just objectively untrue that no one will face "unnecessary burdens" b/c
*non-citizens almost never vote!
*About 20M citizens don't have access to citizenship documents

SAVE solves a non-problem by burdening American citizens.
golden.house.gov Congressman Jared Golden @golden.house.gov · Apr 10
Maine's voting culture is the best in the nation. I am confident that under the SAVE Act, our state can both ensure that only citizens can cast ballots and that no one faces unnecessary barriers to registering to vote.
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM