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KIDS HOPE USA, a program of International Aid in Spring Lake, Michigan, helps a church link its members who have love to…
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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…
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Warner Canto is a founding member and Vice President of the Student/Partner Alliance (S/PA). The S/PA is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization…
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