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The University of Maryland and the Nyumburu Cultural Center have formed a partnership to increase awareness and understanding of diversity, particularly concerning…
Deb Naro has helped to organize and plan the implementation of the Community of Caring program in Plymouth, New Hampshire, as well…
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Danielle Cathcart started raising money for Wipe Out Kids Cancer (WOKC) when she was about 11 years old. In 1994, Danielle’s five-year-old…
Donna Early’s volunteer service spans throughout Summit County in Ohio. She is an active and dedicated member of their chapter of the…
Blenda Wright has volunteered with Southern California Housing Development Corporation (SCHDC), an affordable housing provider, since 1997 at the Rancho Verde Village…
The mission of Project Linus NJ, Inc. (PLNJ, Inc.) is to embrace fragile children from birth to 17 years of age with…
Michael Roth’s passion is the preservation of agricultural history so that future generations in Montgomery County, Maryland (808,000-plus population adjoining Metropolitan Washington,…
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Lee County Community Development Corporation (CDC) is a community based 501(c)(3) organization established in July 1996. Governed by a nine-member Board of…
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Jessica Frieder has spent more than 1,250 hours the past two years working with at-risk youth at a local service agency while…
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