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Through TennisSERVES, Sejal Vallabh has brought a mainstream sport to an underserved community. Sejal uses adaptive technology to teach the sport. The…
Public service announcements (PSAs) are a promising solution to one of the primary obstacles facing nonprofits: media access. With social media platforms…
Ashley Pittman is a senior nursing major at Georgia College and State University who actively works to help a variety of people…
When young people are hospitalized or facing a serious illness, they often feel forgotten and sad. Having experienced these struggles firsthand, Jen…
For more than four years, Commander Christopher Mora has donated hundreds of hours of pro bono legal service to the citizens of…
Stepping Stone Support, an organization run entirely by volunteers, uses its Survivor’s Little Helper program to provide those in cancer treatment, cancer…
Selma Erey is a longtime volunteer and homeowner in the Rockaway Peninsula in New York City. In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated…
When Dimitri Godur was 12, he heard his parents talking about the country’s economic challenges and potential cuts to school arts programs.…
Deeply affected by news that several lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teens had taken their own lives due to bullying, Amelia…
Meredith Iler founded Helping a Hero to raise money to build special needs homes. Since 2006, her organization has built more than…
Chris Sleeper, a volunteer firefighter and EMT for more than 16 years, recently received the 2012 C&S Volunteer of the Year Award…
Although food kitchens and homeless shelters are doing all they can to feed and house those living in poverty, there are many…
Wanting to give back to the hospital that helped him, Tony Kernan volunteered to update the Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital’s patient orientation…
Cyndie Shepard founded Creating the Future, a program that offers direct academic tutoring in elementary, middle and high schools that lack funding,…
A former foster child herself, Helen Ramagalia founded Foster SuperStars to serve as a mentoring program for foster children in her community.…