eBay believes you’re good. I’m being serious. Those words came strait from the head of their CSR group.

There are hundreds of organizations out there that get no love due to limited budgets, staff and other challenges. Social media provides a plethoria of tools that could easily be employed by these very same organizations to increase their brand awarness.

Today the Case Foundation has launches its "Gear Up for Giving" initiative.

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.