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Every March since 2006, Tim Woodland has suited up in full firefighting gear and climbed 69 flights of stairs inside Seattle’s Columbia Center, the second-tallest building west of the Mississippi River. He joins hundreds of firefighters in this annual fundraising event (which you can read more about in this Roots story from 2019.) ... Read More

Deborah Leedy, site admin at our distribution center in Redding, California, started volunteering 20 years ago at her local church. What began as a once-a-week commitment has since grown into dozens of hours dedicated to multiple organizations each month. ... Read More

It started out small: Volunteering to catalog a tiny library at her daughter’s co-op preschool after noticing the books were outdated and lacked diverse representation. One thing led to another, and five years later Malissa Webber, communications manager for Roots News and ERGs, was averaging 100 hours of volunteer time annually at her kids’ current school, North Seattle French School. ... Read More

This fall, Scott Bennett, senior IT engineer in Columbia Falls, Montana, journeyed halfway around the world with a team of eight volunteers — including his son and brother-in-law. They were traveling to help address a critical need for clean water in the remote rural village of Kattakur, India, as part of a project through Aasha India, an organization that promotes development and infrastructure projects in the country’s most impoverished regions. ... Read More

Even though he’s a forester by training, Brad Moehlmann has always harbored an interest in being a teacher. He even considered changing careers once. Recently, he found a way to take what he’s learned in his role as region forester for Southern Oregon to create lesson plans for students at two high schools in Oregon’s south Willamette Valley. ... Read More