Archive for October 2021
United Way of Pierce County Open Position – Job Posting
South Sound 211 has an open position for a Transportation Navigator at our contact center! This is a great opportunity for someone with call center or customer service representative skills to learn about the coordinated transportation system in Pierce County and connect people with services in the South Sound region. Please share the attached job…
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The month of October is the goriest month of the year. With its goblins and ghosts, its succubi and incubi, its body parts and blood, it’s just nasty. Well, it’s just nasty if one isn’t a child, or can’t easily reach their inner child. If one is a child, it’s either dress up time or…
Read MoreEnding Poverty Pathways Online Course
The Tarmarack Institute is offering a self-paced online course that helps you learn how to advocate and advance high impact ending poverty pathways in your community. The course is split into five (5) lessons and taught by Vibrant Communities’ Natasha Pei, Manager of Cities, in this new five module course. Topics include Ending Working Poverty, Governments…
Read MoreLaws
One reason we live in a great country is because of our legal system. Our forbearers worked, under pressure from the loyalists and fear of being executed by the Crown, to create a document that kept any government from taking over this country and eliminating our God given rights. Those rights were given to us…
Read MoreThe First Time Of Hearing Music:
I just sat there and waited. I hesitated my anticipation of joy for fear of impending regret. Should I care if that moment was private, closing the curtains to any onlookers. I knew that soon all would be right, if just for a few precious moments, and the entire experience would be mine alone to…
Read More6 Attributes of a Highly Effective Board Chair
Click the link below to read an article from Joan Garry about 6 Attributes of a Highly Effective Board Chair. Joan compares those traits to Ted Lasso from the Emmy-Award winning TV series of the same name. https://blog.joangarry.com/effective-board-chair/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=What+Makes+a+Great+Board+Chair%3F&utm_campaign=Blog%3A+Ted+Lasso
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