The Social Good Summit, a two-day conference examining the impact of technology and new media on social good initiatives around the world, was held earlier this week.

The Social Good Summit has been viewed in more than 150 countries sparking conversations in 50 different languages.

I always highly admired the skills of the Americorps volunteers that I worked with for the last three years. I didn’t get how they had the energy to get up to do calisthenics at the crack of dawn, mentor and tutor school children and then plan elaborate productions for their peers late into the night only to wake up and do it all over again the following day. I wanted to know what fueled them. And so I jumped right in to see for myself what it truly means to give back.