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When high school athletes Ian Niggles and Sam Zeng learned there was no program in their community to help special needs students…
Fifteen-year-old Angela Liu, an accomplished musician with a gift for playing the flute, is helping bring more color and texture to the…
No matter the venue – at swimming pools, rivers, lakes and oceans – water safety and drowning prevention is a universal concern.…
Meet Remington Youngblood, the charismatic 13-year-old leader of a movement in north Atlanta to engage students in supporting America’s servicemen and servicewomen.…
What Christine Lott saw during a volunteer mission trip to Africa motivated her to give up her career in investment banking back…
Sometimes all it takes to create change is the resources you have around you. Using a webcam and free online resources, honor…
In a suburb of Orlando, Florida, one organization is creating positive change by giving adults with cognitive disabilities the opportunity to make…
When public safety officials in Marion County, Florida, need help in emergency situations involving missing persons, they call on a special group…
Every community needs that person who goes above and beyond to support and lift up the community. On the Island of Oahu,…
After spending hundreds of hours in the hospital’s medical library researching a rare birth defect in her newborn son and finding support…
What began as a third grade school field trip in 2005 to the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center evolved…
For National Health Center Week, Points of Light in partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers honors health center volunteers,…