Ali Schlageter, AGI Superstar (Board member, Leadership Team member, and more!), writes a blog about how volunteering changed her life and, if given a try, could change yours too.

Hey everyone!  First, I want to welcome you to the new A Good Idea website.  This has been a long time coming and we are excited to finally have a website that will allow us to more easily keep everyone up-to-date on upcoming events, projects, and news.  A huge THANK YOU for everyone’s patience with [...]

It’s Sunday afternoon, and as I sit on American Airlines flight 816 officially on my way back to the United States, first to Miami and then home to San Francisco, an array of emotions, thoughts, and feelings consume my heart and mind. It was an emotional ride to the airport as I said goodbye to [...]

After two non-stop, exhausting days I finally have a free moment to sit down and gather my thoughts on Haiti and my trip so far. For those who haven’t been to Haiti post-earthquake (and from what I hear it was a mess pre-quake) the US media didn’t really show the real Haiti. We love to [...]

After looking at some of the comments on the Chase page (http://www.facebook.com/ChaseCommunityGiving?v=feed&story_fbid=210352434236), I’m a bit shocked to see so many people complaining that either their favorite charity didn’t make the top 100, that the cause that they are passionate about didn’t get represented, or my favorite, that their state didn’t have any nonprofits represented. It’s [...]

This email was sent to me from a friend, Bev Friedman, who brought her family to our 24 Hours of Service event. She gave me permission to share it. I think this is an excellent example of why it’s so important to get people involved in community service at a young age. HUGE thanks to [...]

What is social change? The best definition of “social change” that I could find on the web states that “Social change is a general term which refers to a change in the nature, the social institutions, the social behavior, or the social relations of a society, community of people, or other social structures. Any event [...]

While my first couple of days were filled with many inspiring moments and a couple of thought-provoking, heartbreaking ones, the last 48 hours have treated me to some surprises…both good and bad. (Mom if you are reading this, this might be a good time to skip the next paragraph…) I write this entry in the [...]

Hey everyone…so I’ve decided to take a crack at this whole blogging thing that I’ve been hearing about for so many years. You’d think after working in the software space for more than half my career I’d have taken a shot at one of these, but no…I resisted this long. This blog will be nothing [...]