ONE KIND ACT.COM

By Arlan Berglas
Online Community Service

The following 13 meaningful ways to do community service online have been approved by We, The World (a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization), to qualify as community service credit.  All programs are documented online so that the person that assigned your service hours can actually see your work.  Upon completion of your service time, you will receive a stamped letter as well as a certificate of completion from We, The World.  Please verify with the person that assigned your service that you can receive credit for online service prior to starting.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact arlan@wetheworld.org.

13 Meaningful Ways To Do Community Service Online:

1) PIF Mentor:  After a 30 minute online chat, the protege is sent the online script with directions on how they may now be a PIF Mentor too if they wish. You will also receive a free web page on this site. To see a sample web page click HERE.   PIF Mentors that are doing community service will receive one hour credit for each complete mentoring session.  A complete mentoring session is as follows:

a) Arrange to do a 1/2 hour online chat with a friend, family member, co-worker, or anyone who wishes to learn their purpose, organize their passion, volunteer their gift and engage their heart.

b) Go to any online chat room and go through the 30 minute chat process.  This time, you will be the mentor and they will be your protege.

c) You must make a copy of the chat and send a copy to your protege as well as a copy to aunitedworld@gmail.com.  *Note* As soon as we have our new website www.pifmentor.org completed, this process will be done automatically.

d) Send a follow-up letter to your protege as well as a copy to aunitedworld@gmail.com.

2) PIF Research Director: After a 30 minute online chat, the community service provider contacts the charitable organizations (of interest to them) in their community and provides We, The World (WTW) with the nonprofit’s mission along with the volunteer coordinators name, phone number, email address and fax number.  In addition the community service provider will let the volunteer coordinator know that while they are doing research for WTW, they may also be interested in helping that organization online too.  Often, other charitable organizations may want to recognize their current and past volunteers by emailing certificates of appreciation that they can then download and hang on their wall.

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Helping To Unite The World One Person At A Time

Explanation:

We, The World: (www.wetheworld.org) The mission of We, The World (WTW) is to maximize social change – globally. WTW is working to awaken a spirit of caring and involvement in the public so that millions of people begin to see themselves as part of one global interdependent community – and actively take part in creating a world that works for all!

Working with an extraordinarily accomplished team, WTW has begun the process of building an unprecedented critical mass of individuals, organizations and coalitions whose efforts to create a caring world will be highly visible and accessible. By forming global networks of collaboration between groups and individuals involved with: human rights, ecology, animal concerns, peace and nonviolence, creating ethical economic systems, creating cultures of self-sustaining green communities, personal and societal health and transformation, and many others whose work concerns the interests of literally billions of people and other life on our planet.

A United World: (www.aunitedworld.org)  A United World is a website that is operated by WTW that encourages those participants that are involved with the pass it forward movement to access it as if it were your own website. In other words, “A United World” is your website and A United World/(your name).asp is your webpage on your website.
Requested changes to this website are always honored so that it is 100% acceptable to everyone. Best of all, there is never any fee associated with our work, we are not asking for money, we do not have affiliate programs, or advertisers on this website.  It’s all free!  What we want to do is show our appreciation for your efforts to pass it forward!
The purpose of this website is to create a collaboration of hundreds of thousands of people and organizations all working together to help make the world a better place and pass it forward to others. Our motto is “Do What Is Right & Help Others“.

Pass It Forward: (www.passforward.org) is a Movement! This movement is made up of volunteer mentors that are helping each and every person learn their purpose so that they can organize their passion, volunteer their gift, and engage their heart.  After a 30 minute online chat session, your PIF Mentor will always be available to you by email to help you move forward by directing their mentees (proteges) to different people and organizations that are all available on the A United World website.  We guarantee 100% satisfaction!

This PIF Movement (President Obama’s personal message) is encouraging individuals, families, groups and organizations to create their own PIF Program based upon their gift/passion. Everyone has a gift and if they don’t know what it is their own personal volunteer mentor will help.  All programs must abide by Character Counts six pillars of character – trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Additionally, the programs must be acceptable to 100% of people or it will not be a PIF Program. Pass It Forward Programs.

What does must be acceptable to 100% of the people mean?

If a person is working online with this movement they will be on a level of consciousness which we’ll call global consciousness.  This global consciousness is made up of ALL religions and ALL political beliefs.  When you are networking with the people and organizations listed on this website, you are looking for ways to pass it forward.  As online mentors we strive to continually help our proteges (online) to make the world a better place based upon their gift.  Everyone has a gift!  What’s yours?

Creating your own We, The World nonprofit program: If a person wants to create their own  nonprofit program, a mentor will be able to give access for protégé all the tools necessary free of charge on the A United World website.  All volunteers of this movement are given the opportunity to have a mentor, be a mentor, and pass it forward.  By creating your own nonprofit program, WTW will make available a donation button on the mentor’s web page so that the donor’s contribution is tax-deductable.

An individual, family group or organization can apply for a grant and be pre-approved by WTW first. Once they are approved by WTW to create their own WTW, PIF 501 © (3) nonprofit program, they may send their own money into WTW or have a sponsor do it for them. Within a couple weeks after WTW receives the money and the application from the future program director, they will be issued a check for 90% of what WTW received in the form of a grant.

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by Rubel Shelly

It is naïve to think there is never a time when force will be required or when legitimate power has to exert itself. Parents do have to use their authority in order to civilize and nurture unruly adolescents. Bosses sometimes have to fire people who are working against the company’s policies and best interests.

Generally speaking, however, the power of human kindness is a superior form of power to brute force. An attempt to lead by persuasion should always go before the last-ditch requirement of confrontation and pulling rank.

Gail Halvorsen was taught these ideas about kindness, service to others, and the like back in Sunday School as a boy. Now a retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force, he never tires of telling about a situation where putting his convictions to work helped change the course of history. It helped turn an enemy into an ally.

Halvorsen was a pilot in Europe during and after World War II. In post-war Germany, he was on the ground in Berlin. Some of the many hungry children in the once-prosperous Germany that Adolf Hitler had reduced to penury flocked around him and his buddies to ask for food. They were hungry. They were begging for a scrap or bread or a handout from the soldiers’ rations.

Turn an enemy into a friend and heal an old wound!

Halvorsen didn’t have any food for the group of about 30 kids. He had two sticks of gum in his pocket. He handed them to a couple of the children — and had a bright idea. The next time he dropped food into the Soviet-blockaded area of Berlin, he dropped gum and candy out for the children as well. When word got back to his superiors of what he and now other pilots were doing, there was a chewing out for their “unauthorized activities.” But one general defended what the pilots were doing. He encouraged them to keep it up. And soon American candy companies were providing chocolate bars and chewing gum by the tons.

As Halvorsen puts it, “It wasn’t the chocolate. It was hope!” Little children and their beleaguered parents were encouraged to believe that things would someday be better for them. Historians of the period have credited the candy drops for helping change the attitudes of the German people toward their recent enemies in war. The same non-government program is also credited with altering American attitudes toward the German people.

Maybe there are children for you to help in your neighborhood, through your company’s involvement in the larger community, or in some ministry of your church. Maybe the people to think about aren’t even children. Maybe there is just someone who needs an act of positive kindness that you can provide. There are certainly no guaranteed outcomes, but it probably won’t do harm to be gracious.

It could even turn an enemy into a friend or heal an old wound. Sweet!

I myself have gained much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because your kindness has so often refreshed the hearts of God’s people (Philemon 1:7 NLT).

This article has been re-printed with permission. It first appeared at www.heartlight.org. Heartlight exists to provide resources for positive Christian living in today’s world.