Posts Tagged ‘500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference’
8
Dec
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration. Tagged: 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Frommers. 4 Comments
It was a bit of a Sally Field moment for me last night (You like me, you really like me), when I was presented the Lowell Thomas Gold Award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation for the “Best Guidebook 2010″ for my book, Frommer’s 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference. The [...]
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29
Jul
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Vacation Ideas, volunteer. Tagged: 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Frommers, Melinda Quintero, planning, volunteer vacation. 6 Comments
Here is an article at Frommer’s about six steps to planning your volunteer vacation. I was lucky enough to be asked for my two cents as Melinda Quintero put the piece together. How to Plan a Volunteer Vacation in 6 Steps Whether you’re looking to volunteer for an afternoon or for several weeks while on [...]
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26
Jul
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in Inspiration, Opportunities, Vacation Ideas, volunteer. Tagged: 20th anniversary awda, 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Adaptive Sports Center, Americans with disabilities act, disabled american veterans, Frommers, Guide Dogs for the Blind, match-up, seniors with disabilities, serve.gov, United We Serve, Volunteer Match, work and volunteer abroad. Leave a Comment
Today, July 26, is the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability and mandates access to places of business. What a great day to make sure that your own actions and attitudes (and those of your family) embrace all equally. It is also a [...]
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8
Jul
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Vacation Ideas, volunteer. Tagged: 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Abang Africa Travel, America SCORES, Homeless World Cup, i-to-i, Institute for Field Research Expeditions, Intibuca Soccer Volunteers, Projects Abroad, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Travellers Worldwide, vuvuzela, World Cup, World Endeavors. 1 Comment
So I’m not sure whether Paul the Oracle Octopus will choose Spain or the Netherlands to win the World Cup, but I do know that the World Cup has finally conquered the US with Football Fever (soccer for us with our weird naming), bringing us up to the level of the rest of the world [...]
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22
May
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Profiles. Tagged: 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Shermans Travel. Leave a Comment
A lovely thing about having friends and colleagues in the industry in which you work means that there arise occasions for mutual back scratching. A wonderful (and newlywed) pal of mine, Ms. Blane Bachelor, with whom I had the pleasure of traveling to Scotland last year, recently interviewed me about voluntourism. Shermans Travel will get [...]
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9
May
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Inspiration, Opportunities, Vacation Ideas, volunteer. Tagged: 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, battered women shelter, Global Citizens Network, Mother's Day, teen mothers, United Planet, Volunteering Solutions, women's empowerment. 1 Comment
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY To my mom and every mom out there, and to the nurturing spirit in each and every one of us. If you’re considering a volunteer vacation, on this day I offer up ideas of a few opportunities out there where you can make a difference in the life of moms. (From Frommer’s [...]
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16
Feb
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Opportunities, volunteer. Tagged: 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, meet-the-author, Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institution. 1 Comment
Tomorrow, Wednesday February 17, I am going to be in Washington DC doing a speaking engagement and book signing for a program at the Smithsonian Institution. Inspired by the eye-opening events of 9/11, the Asian tsunami of 2004, and Hurricane Katrina, more people are waking up to the value of service—and realizing that their vacation [...]
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24
Oct
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference. Tagged: 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Andrew Mersmann, David Clemmons, voluntourism.org, voluntourist. Leave a Comment
Below is a link to listen to an hour-long radio show I did with David Clemmons. The show is called The VolunTourist and is part of his terrific website, VolunTourism.org It is a full hour long discussion–and who these days has an hour? But wanted to make it available. The Voluntourist link
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20
Oct
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Opportunities, Vacation Ideas, volunteer. Tagged: 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, China, Hands on Shanghai, handsonshanghai.org, Shanghai. 1 Comment
I just learned today that my book, Frommer’s 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, is going to be translated and sold in China. I’m pretty chuffed about that, so I wanted to focus today’s post on volunteering in China. Hands on Shanghai helps connect China-based and visiting professionals to charitable organizations in Shanghai [...]
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13
Oct
Posted by Andrew Mersmann in 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference. Tagged: 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference, Amazon.com, Andrew Mersmann, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Frommers. 1 Comment
Well–here it is. This is the book that kept me on self-imposed house arrest all winter and spring, tilting at the windmills of time trying to get it done. It is now available at online retailers (Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc) and I hope at your local bookstore as well. I love local bookstores [...]
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