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In this image provided by the the United Nations Youth and Innovation Forum, Daniela Fernandez, left, founder and CEO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance, and actor and ocean activist Jason Momoa smile during a ceremony at the UN Ocean Conference where Momoa was made a United Nations advocate for Life Below Water in June, 2022, in Cascais, Portugal. Fernandez has no trouble attracting volunteers to her group Sustainable Ocean Alliance. Last month, she presided over the Our Ocean Youth Leadership Summit in Panama, where 77 participants from 45 countries volunteered their time to develop solutions to protect the oceans. (Diana Quintela Saramatos/United Nations Youth and Innovation Forum via AP)

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Helping out: How American volunteerism is changing — and why
By GLENN GAMBOA - AP Business Writer
Wed,04/19/23-12:22PM , 54 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Daniela Fernandez has no trouble attracting volunteers to her group Sustainable Ocean Alliance. Last month, she presided over the Our Ocean Youth Leadership Summit in Panama, where 77 participants from 45 countries volunteered their time to develop solutions to protect the oceans.
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Sara Campos poses at tennis courts being converted to a skatepark at Portland State University in Portland, Ore., Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. Campos is a fellow in Tony Hawk's The Skatepark Project program, which is training 15 skateboarding enthusiasts in community organizing and project management so they can build a skatepark in their neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Steve Dipaola)

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Tony Hawk uses skateboarding to teach community organizing
By GLENN GAMBOA - AP Business Writer
Wed,11/02/22-7:14AM , 79 Reads
Sara Campos remembers being inspired to start skateboarding after playing Tony Hawk videogames on the California family’s PlayStation 2.
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Dolly Parton poses for a picture before the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Ceremony at Gotham Hall on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in New York. Parton laughs at the idea that she is some sort of secret philanthropist. “I don’t do it for attention,” she told The Associated Press in an interview, shortly before she received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at Gotham Hall in New York City Thursday night. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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Dolly Parton donation strategy: 'I just give from my heart'
By GLENN GAMBOA - AP Business Writer
Fri,10/14/22-7:11AM , 203 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton laughs at the idea that she is some sort of secret philanthropist.
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

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Bill Clinton: 'The world's on fire,' but teamwork can help
By GLENN GAMBOA - AP Business Writer
Mon,09/19/22-5:03AM , 304 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is calling on governments, businesses, philanthropies and other prominent institutions to draw together and help a world that is “on fire" as he reconvenes the Clinton Global Initiative, the meeting of international leaders, for the first time since 2016.
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