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In 1981, Marilyn Morris started Youth Crime Watch in Broward County, Florida to challenge students to get involved to reverse peer pressure…
The Serve Houston Youth Corps is a classic mentoring program for children of 19 elementary schools in Houston's inner city. Martin Cominsky,…
Lila Bjorklund helped start the Utah Girls' Village in 1969 to provide a home for abused and troubled girls. The success of…
Fort Bliss Partnerships in Education Program provides an on-going supplemental resource program for 27 schools in El Paso to promote educational excellence…
YouthFriends is a Greater Kansas City metropolitan area initiative which connects young people, ages five to 18, with caring, adult volunteers in…
Don and Marilyn's goal was to not only serve the community, but to help their children create a solid life-style foundation upon…
Since his own nearly fatal health failure from Diabetes & End Stage Renal Disease 20 years ago, Paul Hackman has been educating…
West Virginia Health Right, Inc. (WVHR) was founded in 1982, by a small group of physicians and nurses who recognized the need…
Mrs. Nancy Berla has been volunteering at Running Brook Elementary in Columbia, Maryland, since she established the FACTS (Families and Community Together…
In 1995, a group of 20 volunteers created an organization committed to improving the self-esteem of poverty-stricken youth ages 6 to 18…
In 1996 the Board of Trustees of Drew University, along with former New Jersey governor and president of the University, Thomas Kean,…
Co-founder of the Adopt-A-Role Model (ARM) program, Jestine Dennard has openly dedicated her life to ensure that local disadvantaged youth have the…
The 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, Inc. is a nonprofit organization comprised of local business and industry leaders whose mission is "to nurture…
Over the past eight years, Frederick Hoffman has single handedly raised more than $300,000 for the National Leukemia Society by pedaling his…
I have been recycling for 8 years. Me and my family are still recycling. We have recycled boxes, soda cans, food cans,…