{"id":291,"date":"2011-09-21T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/best-volunteer-thank-you-gift-ever"},"modified":"2018-06-22T14:38:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T21:38:05","slug":"best-volunteer-thank-you-gift-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/09\/best-volunteer-thank-you-gift-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best volunteer thank you gift ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Jayne &amp; her thank you gift from BPEACE by jcravens, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/6170090316\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6163\/6170090316_baf1d717de_m.jpg\" alt=\"Jayne &amp; her thank you gift from BPEACE\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Jayne &amp; her thank you gift from BPEACE by jcravens, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jaynecravens\/6170090220\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6154\/6170090220_beb8261f05_m.jpg\" alt=\"Jayne &amp; her thank you gift from BPEACE\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an online volunteer with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpeace.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">BPEACE<\/a>, and out of the blue, they sent me this soccer ball, hand-stitched by Afghan women. Afghan women have been renowned for centuries for deft needlework. Now the women of DOSTI, meaning \u201cfriendship\u201d in Dari, have harnessed that heritage to handcraft club-quality soccer balls &#8211; with the help of BPEACE. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bpeace.org\/?p=1371\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read the DOSTI soccer ball story for yourself<\/a> (and learn how to get one for yourself!).<\/p>\n<p>BEST VOLUNTEER THANK YOU GIFT EVER!<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, see this page on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coyotecommunications.com\/volunteer\/recognize.html\">how to thank online volunteers<\/a> (also covers how to use the Internet to thank ALL volunteers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an online volunteer with BPEACE, and out of the blue, they sent me this soccer ball, hand-stitched by Afghan women. Afghan women have been renowned for centuries for deft needlework. Now the women of DOSTI, meaning ???friendship??? in Dari, have h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[36,37,72,180,304,325,10,6,334,529,530,532,540],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-afghan","tag-afghanistan","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-microvolunteering","tag-ngo","tag-ngos","tag-nonprofit","tag-online","tag-volunteer","tag-volunteering","tag-volunteers","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-4H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}