Pamela Cox-Nulman, APR, CPRC,  guest blogger
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
It is easy to be left with the impression that only large businesses with seemingly bottomless resources in terms of donations and employees can make [...]

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Most of us in the field of community relations are always, no matter what our budget and staff, trying to do more with less.  My department sure does.  I like to make jokes about the three people in my department … me, myself and I.  Hey, I really like my staff, what can I say.  [...]

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Guest Blogger, Barbara Clark
“We want to do something for the kids, something that will be fun” … and a heart for volunteering is born.
It is not very difficult to find opportunities for employees or a company to do “good”, and provide “fun” for children or adults that are the beneficiaries of the volunteer effort.  [...]

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You have reached the “out of office reminder” for the blog of Teri Radosevich.  Teri is away from her desk right now, freezing her rear end off in Illinois, while spending some time with her family.
If you would like to find out how Teri is feeling about the holidays, press one.
If you would like to [...]

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Most Avnet Americas locations do some kind of a holiday project.  We have an internal community relations newsletter and in January we will do our “holiday roundup” story that summarizes a lot of what is going on.  But, in the mean time, I just had to give a shout out to these guys.
In our headquarters [...]

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