Curated Video
How to Find Volunteer Opportunities in Your Area
Howcast - There are so many benefits to volunteer service that once you find opportunities in your community, you'll wonder why you didn't get involved sooner.
Makematic
Service
Service and volunteering are at the heart of happy, healthy communities. Learn who volunteers and serves in your community, how they help and what it does for society.
Makematic
Community Helpers
Learn about the important role that community helpers such as teachers, doctors, and firefighters play in our communities.
Curated Video
ASL Signs for Community Helpers | Volunteer Signs
This video is part 3 in our Public Services series and all about signs for people who volunteer in the community. Whether you volunteer in your local food bank, nursing home, museum, voting polls, animal shelter or somewhere else, we...
KERA
Martin Luther King Jr. Inspires Service
Since 1994, Americans have observed a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr on the third Monday in January. Congress designated the holiday as a national day of service. One group of volunteers in Dallas, Texas spent the...
Curated Video
Let's Learn About Communities: People at Work
Community Workers takes students on a journey through their own neighborhoods. From firemen to dedicated postal workers, and from skilled mechanics to trusted bankers, this program sheds light on the crucial roles that community workers...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rachelle Dené Poth - Fearless Teaching: Embracing the Changes in Education
Rachelle Dené Poth is a Spanish and STEAM: What’s nExT in Emerging Technology Teacher at Riverview Junior Senior High School in Oakmont, PA. She is also an Attorney and earned her Juris Doctor Degree from Duquesne University School of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rachelle Dené Poth - Teachers Make a Difference - Bruce Antkowiak
Rachelle Dené Poth is a Spanish and STEAM: What’s nExT in Emerging Technology Teacher at Riverview Junior Senior High School in Oakmont, PA. She is also an Attorney and earned her Juris Doctor Degree from Duquesne University School of...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Matine Khalighi - Overcoming Student Homelessness
Matine Khalighi, a 19-year-old student from Colorado now studying at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Matine Khalighi’s interest in helping others began in middle school when he enrolled in a community service class to research a social...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Matine Khalighi - Teachers Make a Difference - Amy Bainbridge
Matine Khalighi, a 19-year-old student from Colorado now studying at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Matine Khalighi’s interest in helping others began in middle school when he enrolled in a community service class to research a social...
Wonderscape
Solutions to Homelessness: Housing, Community Support, and Action
This video highlights the importance of safe, affordable housing as a key solution to homelessness, along with the need for rapid-response programs and community support. Discover how individual efforts, professional services, and local...
Curated Video
From Counting Cans to Feeding Families: The Math of a Food Pantry
Join us on an exciting trip to People In Need food pantry in Delaware County, Ohio! We'll go behind the scenes to see how they use math every day to help families in their community. From counting items to ensure families receive the...
Curated Video
Mastering Transitions and Cohesion in Writing
New ReviewTransitions and connecting phrases help ideas flow smoothly and connect to each other in writing. Learn about the different types of transitions in writing and how to use them effectively.
Kids Academy
Community Helpers for Kids | Jobs & Occupations for Toddlers, Preschool and Kindergarten
Community Helpers for Kids | Jobs & Occupations for Toddlers, Preschool and Kindergarten If you are focused on nurturing your kid’s habits and behavior from a young age, you should enroll them in community helpers for kids class. In...
National Parks Service
Everglades National Park - Cypress Cathedral
Video about volunteers and botanical illustration in a cypress dome (7 min. with closed-captions).
National Parks Service
Redwood National and State Parks - Redwood Ranger Minute: Citizen Science: Ecoclub Amphibian Project
Ranger Anica meets up with the youths and adults of the Bilingual McKinleyville Ecoclub to learn about their pioneering work tracking the chytrid fungus in Redwood National and State Parks. CREDIT: NPS
Curated Video
Skid Row Carnival Of Love Highlights Help For Homeless
Skid Row – the image that immediately comes to mind is not pretty… a desolate street with boarded up windows…downtrodden people lurking in the shadows...broken glass…darkness…despair ... The Skid Row Carnival of Love is an initiative...
Curated Video
Rescue, Transform, Share- How An Ohio Soup Shack Is Saving Lives
"It really does take a village to help people," says Sandra Lettie, a volunteer with La Soupe in Cincinnati, Ohio. La Soupe is helping to build and activate just such a "village" of compassionate people from the local area around the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Keishia Thorpe - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - USA
Keishia Thorpe is the 2021 Global Teacher Prize winner. Keishia teaches English to 12th-grade students who are English language learners at the International High School Langley Park, Bladensburg, Maryland, United States, a school where...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Keishia Thorpe - Teachers Make a Difference - John Messam
Keishia Thorpe is the 2021 Global Teacher Prize winner. Keishia teaches English to 12th-grade students who are English language learners at the International High School Langley Park, Bladensburg, Maryland, United States, a school where...
Curated Video
10 Cute Puppies Find Furever Homes - Your Daily Diversion
What happens when a litter of 10 newborn pups are suddenly on their own? This is where Doggie Protective Services (DPS), a volunteer driven, non profit based in Romoland, California, comes in. When the litter's Mom died soon after the...
Curated Video
Darla Shaw Shares Her Travel Stories
There is no doubt that 77-year-old Darla Shaw is an eccentric…and she is proud of that label. When she is not teaching as a full time college professor, She may be playing in her Kazoo and steel drum band… or attending her belly dancing...
Curated Video
Darla Shaw Shares Her Travel Stories
There is no doubt that 77-year-old Darla Shaw is an eccentric…and she is proud of that label. When she is not teaching as a full time college professor, She may be playing in her Kazoo and steel drum band… or attending her belly dancing...