The Daily Points of Light
For 27 years, Tyrone Gaines has volunteered in the Baltimore City neighborhood of Reservoir Hill, where he has lived his entire life. <P> In 1971, Mr.
SeniorNet was started in 1986 at the University of San Francisco as a research project designed to examine whether computers and telecommunications could enhance the lives of senior citizens.
Andrew Meloni has been the Sheriff of Monroe County since 1980. For more than 5 years, Sheriff Meloni has been volunteering with the Compeer program.
Inner City Youth Services is a program of Child and Family, Inc., a private non-profit agency in Knoxville, Tennessee, which provides sexual and physical abuse treatment, as well as parenting and h
Steve Tremblay, a quadriplegic since a spinal cord injury in 1971, is founder and president of Alpha One, a statewide nonprofit center for independent living based in South Portland, Maine.
Swim with Mike is an annual swim-a-thon that raises funds for the University of Southern California Physically Challenged Athlete's Scholarship Fund.
Sixteen-year-old Lisa-Anne Marie Furgal is president and founder of the non-profit organization, YOUTH (Youth Out To Help) located in Pinellas County, Florida, which she began in 1995 at age 13.
In 1958, Helen Webber began an informal reading group for the children of her neighborhood in her apartment in East Harlem.
For the past 15 years, Helen Minarik has spent her time volunteering at her local community medical center, Memorial Medical Center at South Amboy, NJ.