After Grau busted through the glass ceiling at the LA Times, rising from classified sales to outside sales and then into management, she left the weight of her career behind in retirement. Not one to atrophy in retirement, Grau embraced weight training. And it shows. This 76-year-old woman is fit and has those kind of arms that flatter sleeveless shirts.
Tag: Volunteering
Your Business & Nonprofits
Managing charitable donations and business can get tricky. One can’t stay in business if one is much too generous. Business owners learn that there such things as phony causes that are enough to harden even the softest hearts.
When Your Volunteerism is Challenged
A few months and committee meetings later, you discover that the committee leader is impossible to work with. You can’t please the leader; you are under constant critique from the leader who seems to delight in admonishing your suggestions. Defeated and depleted, your volunteer-enthusiasm is sucked out of you like a Hoover super, megapower vacuum.
Volunteers Radiate Positive Energy
—As seen in The Cambrian When I reflect on past volunteer efforts, my first visual is that core group. At the first meeting, each person took a… Read more “Volunteers Radiate Positive Energy”
Why volunteer? ’We make a life by what we give’
As published in The Cambrian …by what you give A periodical column by Charmaine Coimbra I was the shadow. Black covered my tiny body from the shiny… Read more “Why volunteer? ’We make a life by what we give’”
Volunteer Fundraising–A Leap Of Faith
“I was perfectly sober. It’s just that, somehow, I’m unsure how, but, well, no one else would, and, grants are nearly a thing of the past, and the costs keep coming, and well, what could I do?”
The Muse Pallet 