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Since 1983, Robert "Papaw" Keeling, a retired engineer, has been resident grandfather at Katy Elementary. He volunteers more than 30 hours each…
Urban Ministries of Raleigh is a volunteer-intensive, nonprofit organization founded in 1980 to address the unmet needs of the poorest citizens in…
Ten years ago, Bob Denny and his wife, Becky, were addicted to drugs and alcohol. When they became homeless, their children were…
Since May of 1992, United Parcel Service's Eastern Georgia District has been in partnership with Thurgood Marshall Middle School. UPS volunteers spend…
The Department of Community Service at Daemen College is a student program, its primary objectives are to educate and provide students the…
Since its inception in 1982, Green Mountain Prevention Projects (GMPP) has trained teens to be peer educators and leaders in substance abuse…
The "Our Kids" project, also known as "Our Kids Are OK," provides assistance to Baxter Country Area children who need medicine, medical…
KIDS HOPE USA, a program of International Aid in Spring Lake, Michigan, helps a church link its members who have love to…
Busbee Quarters is an area comprised of 50 family dwellings, 47 of which are occupied; there are approximately 70 children in the…
The Peekskill Area Health Center (PAHC) has been providing a comprehensive range of preventative health care service to more than 20,000 users…
Approximately 25% of the students at T.C. Walker Elementary School live in disadvantaged homes. These students do not meet the criteria for…
Allen Lowenberg, in his eleventh year of full-time service to the St. Joseph School District, is affectionately known as Edison Elementary School's…
After receiving a B.S. in Nursing in 1976 from the University of Pittsburgh, Sandy Good received a M.S. in 1979 as a…
In 1989, the Reverend Herbert H. Lusk, II, a former Philadelphia Eagle's football player, joined with several other Eagles and community residents…
F.A.C.T.S. is a program in which at-risk high school students pair up with and tutor second grade students. During the 1992-93 school…
Tess Wise founded the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center (HMREC) of Central Florida in 1980 and worked for more than 17…