New program combines vacation with volunteering

Jaunted has an interesting article on a new way to vacation: Traverse City is offering charitable-minded tourists connections to local volunteer efforts to enrich their time on vacation in Michigan.

Excerpt: Traverse City, MI is giving summer tourists a unique opportunity to do good between beach visits.

The city has launched a new program called "Visit with a Purpose" that allows tourists and conventioneers to arrange to work on short-term volunteer projects with local groups including the Great Lakes Children’s Museum, the Maritime Heritage Alliance, and the Alliance for the Great Lakes.

The whole article can be found here.

Source: Jaunted.com
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