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		<title>How To: Get Your Children Engaged in Volunteering</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" title="Footprints" src="http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/istockphoto_5823844_vector_kids_hand_and_feet_prints-300x300.jpg" alt="Footprints" width="88" height="88" />Check out TVO's fantastic article on how to teach your kids to contribute to society and donate to a worthy cause! You will be surprised by how passionate kids can become when they get involved. There's lots of fun opportunities too, volunteering is no longer about simply stuffing envelopes.</p>


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/2009/10/micro-philanthropy/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Micro-Volunteering'>Micro-Volunteering</a></li><li><a href='http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/2009/12/whats-new-at-get-involved-3/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: What&#8217;s New at Get Involved!'>What&#8217;s New at Get Involved!</a></li><li><a href='http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/2010/02/volunteering-olympians/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Olympic Volunteering'>Olympic Volunteering</a></li></ol>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/istockphoto_5823844_vector_kids_hand_and_feet_prints.jpg"></a><a href="http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/istockphoto_5823844_vector_kids_hand_and_feet_prints.jpg"><img style="float: left; border: 0px initial initial;" title="Footprints" src="http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/istockphoto_5823844_vector_kids_hand_and_feet_prints-300x300.jpg" alt="Footprints" width="146" height="146" /></a>Check out TVO&#8217;s fantastic article on how to teach your kids to contribute to society and donate to a worthy cause! You will be surprised by how passionate kids can become when they get involved. There&#8217;s lots of fun opportunities too, volunteering is no longer about simply stuffing envelopes. It&#8217;s a great way to give back this holiday season and an even better bonding experience for you and you family.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoparents/index.cfm?page_id=146&amp;article_id=5780&amp;action=article&amp;article_title_url=EngagedPhilanthropyandthePoweroftheHour">TVO Parents: Engaged Philanthropy and Power of the Hour. </a><a href="http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/logo_tvoparents.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-853 alignright" title="TVO Parents logo" src="http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/logo_tvoparents.jpg" alt="TVO Parents logo" width="129" height="36" /></a></p>
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<p>Need extra help getting your family inspired? Check out this great video on Ryan Hreljac, the seventeen year old creator of the <a href="http://www.ryanswell.ca/">Ryan&#8217;s Well Foundation</a> &#8211; which has provided clean water to over 580 000 people around the world.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/2009/12/how-to-get-your-children-engaged-in-volunteering/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>Check out our other videos on superstar volunteer teens: <a href="http://www.getinvolved.ca/watch/video/quinnrunkle">Quinn Runkle</a>, <a href="http://www.getinvolved.ca/watch/video/rajan">Bilaal Rajan</a>, <a href="http://www.getinvolved.ca/watch/video/amandalemonade">Amanda Belzowski</a> and <a href="http://www.getinvolved.ca/watch/video/card">Abbey Simbrow.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/istockphoto_5823844_vector_kids_hand_and_feet_prints.jpg"><img style="float: left; border: 0px initial initial;" title="Footprints" src="http://blog.powerofthehour.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/istockphoto_5823844_vector_kids_hand_and_feet_prints-300x300.jpg" alt="Footprints" width="146" height="146" /></a></p>


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