I volunteer on several nonprofit boards and helped organize several community blood drives.
Labels can be both empowering but also limiting. Let's recognize them for the value they bring and not the restrictiveness they can engender.
MA
United States
I try to have a good word and pleasant attitude for people with whom I come into contact. you never know when a kind word can turn someone's day around. The whole pebble in the pond thing.
Holden, MA
United States
Three years ago, I met a second year student from North High School at a Sister-to-Sister Conference. I was listening to a group of girls describe issues that they were struggling with. Afterwards, a 15 year old girl approached me to state that she was having a difficult time in her math class and was concerned about passing the mathematics portion of the MCAS that following spring. It was a serendipitous moment. I saw a spark in this young woman and knew she would be successful. We met weekly for 7 months, and she not only passed the MCAS, but got As and Bs in her math class.
