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Taylor Leong has spent the past eight years serving sick-disadvantaged youth in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. When Leong was seven, her best…
The Harvest House Committee, a subset of Valley United Way’s Corporate Volunteer Council, tackles hunger by collecting food in a unique way…
Alex Gramling says a “Christmas miracle” inspired him to found an all-volunteer organization that in three years has provided more than 1,500…
In 2010, Sarah Dewitz of Orlando, FL founded Just 1 Book at the age of 10. After reading an article about a…
In 2011, Jeremy Garriga learned of a need for new, warm socks among the guests at New Jersey’s Hoboken Shelter where he…
The Volunteer Action Center at the University of Arkansas established the Full Circle Campus Food Pantry in February 2011. The pantry is…
Herbert Raasch, a nursing major at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, has a passion for helping people. This year, he challenged…