How to win the World Cup (even if your team won’t)
Don't you sometimes wish that the World Cup would go on forever? There's a way you can still win the World Cup...even after it ends.
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Why Summer Reading = Empowerment
Studies have shown that student's achievement scores decline to the equivalent of them missing a full month of school by the time they return from break. Yikes. We know that no kid wants to think about school over the summer, but giving them...
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4 ways you can do something good right now
When so many things feel like they're going wrong in the world, it's hard to know how to help all of them. We can't fix everything ourselves - as much as we may want to - but if everyone starts somewhere, we are capable of more than we know. Change...
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How to be less trashy
From our ever-expanding landfills, to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it’s no secret that waste is a huge issue globally. We all need to play a part in creating a less wasteful future. And while we can’t all get a year’s worth of trash to...
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How to Use the POINT App
We know that not everyone's phone has become an extension of their brain. And even though POINT is super intuitive - we promise - we want to make sure you can get it down pat on your first try.
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Here’s the easiest way to get your summer volunteer hours
This might date us...but back in our day 👵🏽 we had to ask around, Google charities and bum off whatever our friends were doing to get in our volunteer hours. Honestly, it was a mess. At the end of the summer, we were scrambling.
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Introducing Geo Check-in
You know when your Uber or Lyft pulls up and your phone shoots out a notification: "Your car has arrived"... Well, we did the same thing for when you arrive at a charity.
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Habitat for Humanity Columbus Ohio is on POINT
The easiest way to volunteer just got even better. POINT’s Columbus users now have the opportunity to join Habitat for Humanity - MidOhio for all of their volunteer opportunities.
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Dates get boring – Watch
It's an easy fix, if you just shake things up a bit. Honestly, some of the best dates can be spent volunteering. You might have just cringed slightly at the word "volunteering", and we get it - the word itself just doesn't do it justice and sounds...
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Volunteering App Launches in Columbus, Ohio
We believe opportunities to volunteer should be app-friendly. We can book a room in Spain, order food from bed, catch a ride, invest in stock, but we can't sign up to volunteer in our communities...until now. POINT, a volunteering app, is now...
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Why pictures matter for non-profit events on POINT
When you create an event on POINT, the image goes front and center. We call it the event header image. This is the first impression that your potential volunteers get of your nonprofit.
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Charities: Five Quick Tips for Posting Events
POINT makes it as easy as it should be for your community to know about volunteer events. Not on POINT? Sign your charity up at pointapp.org/charity. When you post an event on the POINT charity dashboard, people see it on the POINT app. Cool right?
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