Written by: MacKenzie Paschen, WWS Social Club Member Published by: Melissa Ostrowski The Right Community – Walk With Sally Social Club As a young, professional living in the South Bay and throughout Los Angeles, finding a community to impact can be difficult. Finding one that is like minded and looking to give back, even more […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hi, I’m Autumn – Walk With Sally’s Volunteer Manager! In celebration of National Volunteer Month, I’m sharing all the ways you can volunteer with us and stay in the know about our upcoming opportunities. We like to find the perfect volunteer opportunities for you, so we take the time to get to know you, your […]
What Is A Bonus Activity? Through Walk With Sally’s activity events, mentors, mentees, and families impacted by cancer have the opportunity to grow their sense of community. To supplement our quarterly Friendship Activities, we also extend 1-2 opportunities per month we call Bonus Activities! These provide not only a sense of community, but also access for […]