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		<title>Your Business and the Community &#8211; Volunteer Work</title>
		<link>http://www.consumology.com/archives/2010/06/27/your-business-and-the-community-volunteer-work/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that donating your time as a volunteer is a way for you to strengthen the bonds of your community as well as aiding the poor. But how do you actually schedule this? It's a lot easier to get involved when a professional has organized the event. Of course volunteering can be more fun with your friends from work getting involved right along with you!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I expect you know that volunteer work is a great way to help build stronger communities as well as helping the poor. Of course, freeing up the time to volunteer may easily waste some of that very same free time.</p>
<p>Accordingly, some socially-conscious companies are integrating initiatives encouraging their employees to support the community through volunteer activities. A leader in this field is Adaptive Marketing LLC of Connecticut who developed shopping and financial benefits programs including Privacy Matters Identity (MVQ*PRIVACYMID) to consumers. Luckily, company-supported volunteering is more than blood drives and annual charitable giving. The employees of Adaptive Marketing are regularly given the opportunity to take part in a full range of community initiatives. By centralizing the organization the initiatives became larger events, with specific dates, locations and times posted in advance to make time management easy for those signing up. Giving volunteers a say in what initiatives are available is also important. Firms involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, (who offer to the public programs like <a href="http://www.aboutus.org/PrivacyMatters.com">Privacy Matters Identity</a> (MVQ*PRIVACYMID)) offer their employees a wide assortment of local activities. Volunteers may find themselves community projects in arts, helping out children, working on green initiatives etc. The result is that Adaptive Marketing volunteers have opportunities to explore useful avenues in volunteer work and enjoy their time volunteering. Most often a company-sponsored volunteer initiative &#8211; getting involved with a homeless shelter or assisting at a local school &#8211; is done either as a one-off event or on a regular schedule designed to achieve a bigger goal. Members of staff may well submit that they have no time to give, though it would be surprising if they genuinely cannot set aside the hours to lend a hand with an event requiring only a single day.</p>
<p>It has always been a fairly common practice for companies to assist the community which they serve. Goodwill comes from the volunteer work done by Adaptive Marketing&#8217;s staff members through these company-supported initiatives. The fact is, one of the benefits of helping others is a sense of accomplishment &#8211; an upbeat feeling that leaves not just the worker but the whole business more upbeat.</p>
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		<title>Volunteer Work &amp; the Business</title>
		<link>http://www.consumology.com/archives/2010/05/18/volunteer-work-the-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably know, volunteer work is a great way to help build stronger communities and at the same time assist the needy. Traditionally, however, freeing up the time to volunteer often consumes some of that very same free time. And you'll have more fun volunteering when your co-workers are pitching in right along with you!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Volunteering &#8212; coming together as a community, and supporting the local needy. But finding the room for this kind of event can be difficult, and before you know it you don&#8217;t have half as long at your disposal to actually do some good. Let&#8217;s not forget that volunteering is more fun when your co-workers are getting involved right along with you! Companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, that innovated financial benefits programs like <a href="http://identi.ca/yoursavingsclub">Your Savings Club</a> (MVQ*CLUBSAVE) that help to enrich consumers, are stepping up to become the points of organization for volunteer activities and helping employees make time for reaching out.</p>
<p>Such initiatives were always rare, limited occasions &#8212; in today&#8217;s world, so much more can be achieved. For example, Adaptive Marketing has offered staff members opportunities to get involved in everything from shoe recycling campaigns to local tree replanting events. By centralizing the organization individual initiatives grew into larger events, with specific locations, times and dates published in advance to help those signing up with their time management. There should always be a opportunity to select activities, of course. Employees of Adaptive Marketing choose from among a great many activities. Prior projects have ranged between a wide assortment of areas including aid and assistance for children and young adults, environmental projects, and events related to performance art. Often, the more the volunteer enjoys it, the more productive they are, so through offering such a variety of programs Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their staff will make progress on as many as possible.</p>
<p>A regularly scheduled day or a big one-off event &#8212; this is how a business tends to organize volunteer initiatives like these, perhaps at a nearby homeless shelter or the local school. Members of staff may well say &#8212; and truly be convinced&#8212; that they have no time to give, though we&#8217;d be surprised if they genuinely cannot free up the resources to lend a hand with an event lasting merely a single day.</p>
<p>Using their expertise to the benefit of the community around them is a practice with a long pedigree at many firms. The activities of the employees at companies like Adaptive Marketing spread valuable goodwill throughout the community. Helping around your home town leaves you feeling like a better person &#8212; just the sort of thing to leave stafrf motivated both in their volunteer work and back behind their desks, too. Creating the opportunity to help employees become volunteers is nothing but positive.</p>
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		<title>Your Guide &#8212; Volunteering Your Time</title>
		<link>http://www.consumology.com/archives/2009/12/13/your-guide-volunteering-your-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I expect you know that giving your time as a volunteer allows you to strengthen the bonds of your community and at the same time assist the poor. The obvious problem is that making arrangements to be free to volunteer has been known to consume very time that could really be put to much better use. Of course, when volunteering becomes a team effort with colleagues, it will be far more fun.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The spirit of friendship that develops among volunteers can tie their community together more closely, and as you&#8217;d expect it will fulfill the volunteers&#8217; goal of giving charity to their local poor. However, organizing this isn&#8217;t as simple as one would want, and before you know it you don&#8217;t have half as long left to actually do some good. Obviously, if volunteering becomes a group effort with friends from work, it&#8217;s likely to be far more fun. Thus, a number of companies are making themselves into points of organization encouraging their employees to support the community. A leader in this field is Adaptive Marketing LLC who developed financial benefits programs like At Home Rewards (MVQ*HOMERWRDS) to consumers. Fortunately, company-supported volunteer work is more than annual charitable giving. The staff of Adaptive Marketing have been provided with the chance to participate in a full range of community initiatives. For these events, the locations, dates and times that had been arranged were posted, making it convenient for staff members to know what to expect, and the exact amount of time each event might specifically require from them.</p>
<p>Naturally, it&#8217;s essential to let volunteers back programs in line with their own interests. At Adaptive Marketing, the company bringing you <a href="http://identi.ca/athomerewards">At Home Rewards</a> (MVQ*HOMERWRDS), employees have the chance to choose from a diverse list of volunteer activities in the local area. Earlier projects have ranged between areas as diverse as help and support for children and young adults, green programs, and events cultivating the area&#8217;s arts and culture. Adaptive Marketing&#8217;s members of staff are certain to have something they enjoy, ensuring they&#8217;ll enjoy the time they spend volunteering. A regularly scheduled day or a big one-off event &#8212; these are the most common ways for a firm to organize volunteer initiatives like these, possibly at a nearby homeless shelter or one of the local schools. Even those who say they don&#8217;t have the time can arrange for the public library&#8217;s used-book sale or a Saturday morning park clean-up.</p>
<p>Providing a helping hand is a practice with a storied history at many firms. The good worksefforts of the staffers at Adaptive Marketing create good feeling in their home town. Something that volunteer activities are guaranteed to do is provide your employees with a healthy appreciation for what they can do, which creates a motivated corporate culture. Promoting volunteering among your members of staff creates other rewards than the obvious, as we hope we&#8217;ve shown.</p>
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		<title>Cancer of the Mesothelium a Unusual Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.consumology.com/archives/2009/04/24/cancer-of-the-mesothelium-a-unusual-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mesothelioma is a infrequent cancer of the tissue that lines the body&#8217;s inner organs. Almost two thousand brand new cases are pinpointed each year in the whole United States. Out of these, almostthree out of four of occurrences involve the sac around the lungs, called the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In around [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mesothelioma is a infrequent cancer of the tissue that lines the body&#8217;s inner organs. Almost two thousand brand new cases are pinpointed each year in the whole United States. Out of these, almostthree out of four of occurrences involve the sac around the lungs, called the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In around ten to 20 percent of occurrences, <a href="http://www.whitelung.org/">mesothelioma cancer</a> may affect the tissue that surrounds visceral organs, named the peritoneal membrane, resulting in what is then known as peritoneal mesothelioma.</p>
<p>Being introduced to asbestos is positively the largest influencing factor for this rare disease. Following exposure to asbestos, the delay to development of the mesothelioma disease might be 20 to 40 years. Because of <a href="http://www.epa.gov/iaq/asbestos.html">job related exposure</a>, mesothelioma is almost three times more likely in males, than in females. Because the mass of occurrences moves upward with age, there are about 10 times more instances in the men more than age 64 than in the males in their thirties.</p>
<p>Getting Malignant mesothelioma is a grave cancer, that, at the moment, has a incredibly bad percentage of lasting continuance. However, if it is pinpointed early, regimens are  then available that can seriously stretch the patient&#8217;s life. New therapies continue to be and are being tested through the use of <a href="http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00402766">clinical trials</a>.</p>
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