round-up May 9
May 9th, 2008• The Latest Office Perk: Getting paid to volunteer: “For many young job hunters, a prominent employee-volunteerism program is a strong selling point. A 2006 survey of 1,800 13-to-25-year-olds found that 79% want to work for a company that cares about how it affects or contributes to society. Sixty-four percent said their employer’s social and environmental activities inspire loyalty, according to Cone Inc., a Boston-based brand strategy and communications agency, which conducted the survey. “Millennials are saying, ‘I don’t want to park my values at the door,’” explains Carol Cone, chairman and founder of the firm. “They’re asking companies: ‘What’s your purpose? What do you stand for? How are you giving back?’”
• 24 Hours on the Big Stick: What you can learn about America on the Deck of the USS Roosevelt: “Some say John McCain’s character was formed in a North Vietnamese prison. I say those people should take a gander at what John chose to do–voluntarily. Being a carrier pilot requires aptitude, intelligence, skill, knowledge, discernment, and courage of a kind rarely found anywhere but in a poem of Homer’s or a half gallon of Dewar’s…. Some people say John McCain isn’t conservative enough. But there’s more to conservatism than low taxes, Jesus, and waterboarding at Gitmo. Conservatism is also a matter of honor, duty, valor, patriotism, self-discipline, responsibility, good order, respect for our national institutions, reverence for the traditions of civilization, and adherence to the political honesty upon which all principles of democracy are based. Given what screw-ups we humans are in these respects, conservatism is also a matter of sense of humor.”
• former Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu supports World Vision child sponsorship appeal: in a series of London adverts
• Barna Research on use of technology in churches: “Blogging is also invading the ministry world. One-eighth of Protestant churches (13%) now have blog sites or pages through which people can interact with the thoughts posted by church leaders.” I wonder, how many of these church blogs are regularly updated? Church leaders looking for blogging approaches should check Eugene Cho’s blog.
• The Angry Black Woman sez - “Things you need to understand #9: You don’t get a cookie”
• Fewer Latino Immigrants Sending Money Home: “Only 50 percent of some 18.9 million Latino immigrants in this country now send money regularly to relatives in their home countries, compared with 73 percent two years ago” according to a survey by the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.
• START DRILLING: This energy solutions-focused op-ed is by a WashPost columnist who is on nobody’s list of oil glutton neo-cons.
• 58% of black children can’t swim: according to a survey by USA Swimming
• GovernmentisGood.com: This one is for the libertarians out there, government is good for something
• Loyal to the Bitterness: Peggy Noonon is not fazed by the Jeremiah Wright kerfuffle
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