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Urban Connections is a nonprofit organization is located in an area identified ‘low performing’ due to not having 75 percent of…
Fran Knoizen has raised more than $100,000 to fight cancer over 30 years, she served more than 50 senior attendees weekly…
Wendy Moore uses her painfully modest, often challenging, beginnings to fuel a passion to help kids have access to brand new…
College freshman Sydney Wilson started Ocean Hour, a beach cleanup club when she was a junior in high school. “A lot of…
Rich Garland is a hands-on volunteer and board member for the The Blessing Board, a Pittsburgh-area nonprofit that serves victims of abuse,…
Shortly after Katie Prior began playing the trumpet, her great-grandfather, a war veteran was admitted into hospice care. Katie’s family talked about…
Ray Hartenstein, 81, of Cushing, Texas, visits a small East Texas school library to read and sing to a large class of…
Carlsbad, a coastal community in southern California, has seen its share of disasters. With a semi-arid climate and seaside location, it is…
Tim Stanfield cleans, repairs and removes stickers on 90-100 used books every week so that they can be used to introduce at-risk…