Volunteer All Star 2020 – Jim McErlean & The U.S. Air Force

Volunteer Month All Star – Last But Not Least Like I mentioned at the start of this month, we’ve had so many incredible volunteers over the past year, it was incredibly difficult to try to narrow it down to one that stood out among the rest.  However, one person continuously showed up throughout 2019… After […]

Volunteer All Star 2020 – A Group Effort from Walk With Sally Social Club

National Volunteer Month 2020 We’ve passed the halfway point for April, but we’ve barely scratched the surface highlighting some incredible Walk With Sally volunteers.  In honor of National Volunteer Month we wanted to bring some attention to our all star groups as well as individuals.  Sometimes a group effort is all it takes! Volunteer groups […]

Volunteer All Star 2020 – Carrie Davidson

National Volunteer Month – Volunteer All Star 2020 Our second undeniable volunteer all star for 2020 has volunteered as a committee member, a leader for our Restaurant team, a fundraiser for the Friendship Bowl, and has even brought more and more friends into the Walk With Sally community as an ambassador.  This next Volunteer All […]

Volunteer All Star 2020 – Todd Morin

Volunteer Month – Honoring Our All Stars April is National Volunteer Month and each year we like to honor one person as our Volunteer of the Year.  This year as we reflected back, there have been so many incredible supporters, we couldn’t decide on just one so instead we will be highlighting a different All […]

Putting the Men in Mentoring

Men Who Mentor: Meet Peter In honor of National Mentoring Month, Walk With Sally is honoring all of our mentors who contribute to our organization! We are so grateful for our volunteer mentors and all that they contribute to the Walk With Sally community. One mentor, Peter Phelps, is a cancer survivor, and just celebrated […]

Walk With Sally 6th Annual Surf Day Friendship Activity 2019

Mentor and Mentee Friendship Frank and Aiden at Walk With Sally's Surf Day Friendship Activity in Manhattan Beach near Los Angeles

Walk With Sally 6th Annual Surf Day Friendship Activity 2019 Partnership and volunteers create community at Walk With Sally Friendship Activity. Walk With Sally brings ocean healing and surfing to mentors, mentees and families in partnership with the Jimmy Miller Foundation, and with the support of FTK Social Club, to build community! Photos by @jolugarphotography […]

Walk With Sally Summer Internships

Walk With Sally staff and interns at the El Segundo Los Angeles office in Summer 2019

This past Summer, Walk With Sally welcomed 5 new interns into our office. These interns worked with our program, development, and special events teams to learn different aspects of working within a nonprofit organization. Program Internship Kelly, one of our program interns, is going into her Senior year at Loyola Marymount University, majoring in Psychology. […]

Leading CSR For Your Company

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Corporate social responsibility (CSR) comes in all shapes and sizes, and is typically driven by a dedicated company culture. The team behind a company’s CSR mission must keep a bigger picture at the forefront of everything they do. Understandably so, the leader of this team will need to be someone who […]

Why We Volunteer

Reasons We Volunteer In honor of National Volunteer Month we wanted to find out why some of our volunteers choose to give back.  So, we asked Janet Page, a volunteer who has spent more than a few hours with us over the past few months to tell us about her motivation.  Here’s what she had […]

Walk With Sally News – April 2018

April 2018 Newsletter Over the last few weeks Walk With Sally has been up to a lot, here’s a rundown of the latest activities and events. If you’re interested in joining our tribe of volunteers – click here! Volunteering 101 “The essence of life is to serve others and do good.” – Aristotle April is National […]