By Karen M. Sughrue | Nov 1, 2015
I am a former University of Washington professor who gets bored easily. Despite retiring with no plans for the future, I managed to find a way to stay busy in my second act: as a self-confessed “serial volunteer.” As a faculty member, I taught earth and...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Nov 1, 2015
After a 40+ year successful career as a technology entrepreneur, I started Water to Thrive in 2008 as outgrowth from a summer Sunday School session on world hunger and poverty. Water to Thrive is a faith-based nonprofit that works to bring clean, safe water to rural...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Nov 1, 2015
The mission of our nonprofit, Eyes on Africa is to provide eyeglasses at no cost to Africans through distribution in communities with no access to vision care. This idea just “fell” on me when I gave a South African woman my spare pair of reading glasses....
By Karen M. Sughrue | Oct 30, 2015
Fostering A Life, Inc. is a nonprofit agency that provides life skills and tutoring services to youth between four and 10 years of age. We were incorporated in April of 2008 and received our designation letter from the IRS in April 2009. I was motivated to become...
By Gary Hume | Oct 27, 2015
I am a volunteer tutor for the national nonprofit Reading Partners at an elementary school across the street from my home in Seattle. I tutor the same student for 45 minutes twice a week to improve reading skills. Now retired, I longed to get back to working directly...
