{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AmeriCorps Connections","title":"250 & Beyond | Show Up. Do What You Can. Be Ready to Leave.\" | Alex Schwartz 👉Happy Earth Day!  🌍🌎🌏","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a35eab59\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1638,"description":"Happy Earth Day!  🌍🌎🌏Alex Schwartz has a philosophy for volunteering that he picked up from a hospice care essay he read on a spring break service trip in college — and it's stuck with him through every service experience since.Step 1: Show up. Step 2: Do what you can with what you have. Step 3: Be ready to leave.From AmeriCorps NCCC building Habitat for Humanity homes in Montana, to disaster relief after California's Camp Fire, to trail restoration in Iowa, to Boys and Girls Club work in Utah — Alex has served across more communities than most people visit in a lifetime. Each time, he brought those three steps with him.Now settled in Minnesota and just starting to volunteer at his local youth center, Alex reflects on what it means to build community as a newcomer — and how showing up to serve is the fastest way to feel like you belong somewhere.His closing thought: Tikkun Olam. Repair the world. Leave it better than you found it. Ask the community what \"better\" looks like — then do what you can. Happy Earth Day!  🌍🌎🌏#StillGettingThingsDone_______________________________________ 🤝 This episode is part of a special series produced in partnership with 250&Beyond: Our American Story and our partners:  The National Museum and Center for Service — A national organization developing a truly national museum and center dedicated to honoring and inspiring service in ALL its forms.  Independent Sector — The only national membership organization that brings together a diverse community of changemakers, nonprofits, foundations, and corporations working to strengthen civil society and ensure all people in the United States thrive.  WETA — Founded in 1961, WETA is the leading public broadcasting station in the nation's capital, serving their community with educational, cultural, news, and public affairs programs and services.  ________________________________________ AmeriCorps Connections lifts up real stories of AmeriCorps alumni — 100+ featured! Honest, unfiltered truth...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/c4sc2-uOGbHbwtPQX335ur5oQHYsLQ6rDBkAM2hvRNU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQwMjg4LzE2OTIz/OTQ2NzctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}