Rosemary Matzerath has volunteered with the Literacy program for 9 years. As a result of her efforts, her students are now able to participate more fully in the community and achieve their career and personal goals. A lifelong educator, Rosemary . . .
Ching serves as a volunteer tutor with the Literacy Program at The Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz. Twice a week she works with a student at the Santa Cruz County Jail. Each session she signs in at the jail, passes through security where . . .
The Minnesota Children’s Museum is honored to have Judy Jarman as one of its most outstanding, kind, and dependable volunteers. Since 2009, Judy has contributed almost 1000 hours of volunteer service in a variety of roles at the museum. Judy first began . . .
In honor of Family Volunteer Day, Nov. 19, Points of Light and Disney are recognizing families with the Daily Point of Light Award. Meet today’s winning family, the Mattson family of Clarence, New York and Honolulu, Hawaii, and nominate someone in your community. When Elizabeth and . . .
Sometimes, volunteering means hard physical work, such as delivering boxes of food to the hungry, shoveling snow for shut-ins or doing clean-up work at disaster sites. For Steven Sunday of Cape St. Claire, Md., who’s 71 and has been forced . . .
“Book Lady! Book Lady! Book Lady!” That’s the warm embrace Zoe Sanchez Richardson hears as she enters a room full of 6 and 7-year-old children. Those excited screaming little voices are like music to her ears. For the past few years . . .
“Consumers want the companies, the brands they are loyal to, to be agents of purpose,” said Points of Light CEO, Tracy Hoover, as she opened the Business Track at the 2016 Conference on Volunteering and Service, celebrating corporate changemakers who . . .
Six years ago, Carter Jimenez Jenkins was looking at a website called Blue Planet Run and saw a photo essay about people who were living without access to safe water. Carter was shocked and knew he needed to take action.
A STEM major in college and now the mother of two girls passionate about science, you could say that Sandy Marshall knows a little bit about the challenges of getting more girls and women interested in STEM careers. That’s precisely . . .
Building on its corporate volunteering efforts throughout the year, Fidelity Investments recently celebrated its annual Fidelity Cares Day, with more than 6,000 employee volunteers sharing their time and talent with 27 schools and 81 projects across the United States, Canada . . .