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Gennifer Davis is a youth living in Appalachia. At 13 years of age, Gennifer was searching for a project for her Girl…
After graduating college at the top of his class, Greg Forbes Siegman walked away from his own lucrative career dreams to spend…
Thomas Turner has been an active community volunteer for over 45 years. At the age of 86, he devotes an average of…
Some of the toughest neighborhoods in the country are those that are located in large inner-city urban areas. Citizens of these neighborhoods…
Sondra Clark has published two books, is a motivational speaker, and has her own line of craft projects at the ripe old…
Patients at Methodist Rehabilitation Center deal with the effects of stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury. One of the goals…
Paul Bales’service to the people of Blount County, Tennessee began when he was just a child. He is employed with The Daily…
The Green River Area Development District “Senior Connections” AmeriCorps seeks to improve the quality of life for the at-risk elderly in Western…
Volunteers for Peace (VFP) has been a Vermont nonprofit membership corporation since 1982. VFP is totally membership supported and is in partnership…
Although volunteer participation in meeting the public safety needs of the community has been a long-standing tradition of civilization, Don Haidl has…
Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity (SIMA), Norfolk provides a wide variety of community service efforts through the Adopt-a-School program with area elementary and…
Rusti Lang, a senior at Santana High School in Santee, California, was like many other students involved in the line of fire…
Woodmen of the World/Omaha Woodmen Life Insurance Society is dedicated to helping people when disaster strikes, as seen through Woodmen’s Disaster Relief…
Vivian Hanson Meehan, R.N., D.Sc. serves as President and Executive Director of the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD),…
Madge Burton lost three of her children at one time in a brutal murder and had to deal with the paralysis of…
After her teenage son was shot to death, Debbie Parnham wanted to prevent others from a life of devastation and pain, so…