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Members of the Ford ACTS (Assisting the Community Through Service) Community Service Volunteer Program have been coming to the Dare to Care…
In his 10 years of service to the Board of Trustees of the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, Alan Swendiman has served…
Margaret Walsh helps children develop the building blocks they need to grow into adults with compassion, skills and knowledge about the world…
Mary Hall manages an outreach office for Baby Find, located in M.A.S.H. Village, a homeless shelter in Las Vegas. The office opened…
Prompted by a newspaper article about the growing number of people with AIDS in Marin County, Carola Detrick, a local business woman…
In the fall of 1994, City High School teacher Wayne Bentley became involved in minority representation on the local juries. Since then…
What could possibly inspire a 66-year-old mother of 10, grandmother of 39 and great-grandmother of 15 children to return to school, learn…
Unique in the Tarrant County area, Rosemary "Rosie" Mauk combines divergent ideas into a common vision to serve the disenfranchised within her…
Ross Farnsworth has long been recognized as a leader and doer in the growing community of Mesa, AZ. He started volunteering in…
More than 700 volunteers are part of Hooked on Books, a one-on-one reading program that pairs inner city children with people from all…
Karen Zimmer has been essential to the development of the Linking Neighbors program, which provides technical assistance to community residents’ neighborhood revitalization…
A retired engineer, Thor Andersen works diligently to help homeless individuals and families get back on their feet and find permanent housing.…
Joe Dean founded a Reading Is Fundamental Program in Opelika, AL and named it Jean Dean RI, in honor of his late…
The staff and administration at Fairview Elementary School have taken an innovative approach to addressing community social problems within the public school system. By…
With a population of approximately 1.2 million people, Sacramento County reflects a richness and diversity of people and culture. While the median…
Glenn Stein has devoted himself to addressing the critical need for computer skills in low-income, inner-city neighborhood residents. He founded and manages…