Wednesday, November 08, 2006

At United Way, they’ve figured out that youth thing | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA

At United Way, they’ve figured out that youth thing | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA: "As a newcomer to Pierce County, Diana Stover wanted to learn about the place, get to know other young folks and do some good.

But how?

“Life is so crazy,” Stover said. “It’s difficult with the computer age; you communicate so frequently over e-mail now, it just seems like we’re a hands-off generation.”

Who can understand kids these days?
Turns out United Way of Tacoma-Pierce County does. The do-good workplace fundraiser, which some might describe as stodgy, created an ultramodern answer for twentysomethings and thirtysomethings.

In oldtimey, techno-academic terms, you’d call it “episodic volunteerism-infused social networking.”

Since January, United Way calls it Project:U."

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