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Andrew Meloni has been the Sheriff of Monroe County since 1980. For more than 5 years, Sheriff Meloni has been volunteering with…
Affiliated with Mt. Calvary Seventh Day Adventist Church in Tampa, FL, the Mount Calvary Youth Drama Guild, started in 1993, is an…
Inner City Youth Services is a program of Child and Family, Inc., a private non-profit agency in Knoxville, TN, which provides treatment…
Steve Tremblay, a quadriplegic since a spinal cord injury in 1971, is founder and president of Alpha One, a statewide nonprofit center…
Swim with Mike is an annual swim-a-thon that raises funds for the University of Southern California Physically Challenged Athlete's Scholarship Fund. The…
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, FL,…
In 1958, Helen Webber began an informal reading group for the children of her neighborhood in her apartment in East Harlem. The…
For the past 15 years, Helen Minarik has been volunteering at her local community medical center, Memorial Medical Center at South Amboy,…
The Senior Companion Program (SCP), located in Pittsburgh, PA, offers homebound senior citizens companionship and services, linking senior volunteers with seniors in…
The 10 members of the Magnusen family began volunteering as a family more than 13 years ago. They fostered 31 babies, most…
Merle Hatleberg, a former nutritionist, started the Some One Cares Soup Kitchen in 1986. She began by feeding 30 people and today…
Eagle Pass, TX is the only incorporated community in Maverick County. Spanish is the primary language for 90% of its residents. This…
Adam Hornstine is a 17-year-old student at Moorestown High School in New Jersey. In 1996, Adam organized a new club named M.A.G.I.C.,…
In 1990, when the Imani House was established as a nonprofit organization, Bisi Iderabdullah came back to Brooklyn, NY from Liberia to…
In 1994, Kevin Donahoe lost his father, Jim, after a lengthy battle with cancer. To honor his father, Mr. Donahoe began a…
Started in 1919, Unity Shoppe provides basic necessities to low-income families, children and elderly, while encouraging self-sufficiency and independent living. The organization…