Across America, caring adults are involved in efforts to foster literacy among at-risk children. While not minimizing the commitments of any of those individuals, there is an absolute “specialness” about the contributions made by a Pottstown, Pennsylvania man. He is . . .
Since 1953, the Volunteer Services Council of the Texas Center for Infectious Disease (TCID) has provided tuberculosis patients with basic services that the hospital was not able to provide. When tuberculosis was rampant in this country: men, women, and children . . .
The ABC Unified School District (USD) has come face to face with America’s future. In this district of contrasts, no ethnic group can claim a majority. It boasts Whitney High School, whose standardized test scores are higher than any other . . .
Mrs. Otissey Denton was a teacher for thirty-three years. After her retirement in 1991, she began spending three to four days a week at schools, nursing homes, the library and civic clubs; however, she began her service to the community . . .
Lois Park began tutoring with an adult literacy program in Helena, Arkansas, in 1984 at age 67. Her husband, a minister for 45 years, died in 1981, leaving her with “time on her hands.” Perhaps the thing that inspired her . . .
Every journey must begin with a single step, and thus Scarlotte Deupree’s journey with literacy began in 1997 when she began to notice an increasing need for literacy work in her rural hometown of Sylacauga, Alabama. In 1997, Deupree read . . .
Heidi Figel has been involved with the Community Service-Learning Institute since September of 1998, when she joined the Institute’s AmeriCorps program. During her time at the Institute, she quickly made the transition from volunteer participant to project leader. She has . . .
The Alpha Center is an organization that is seeking to bring positive change to the lives of youth and elderly in Baton Rouge on an ongoing basis. The motto of the Alpha Center youth is based on the idea that . . .
What began in 1994 as a three-campus partnership has grown to nine campuses from Bristol to Chattanooga. Private and publi, two- and four-year colleges and universities have joined together to establish service-learning programs on their respective campuses. From both urban . . .
Established in 1990, the goal of the Volunteer Talent Center (VTC) is to improve the academic performance and social skills of K-12 students in the Jefferson County Public School (JCPS) District. The Center meets its goal by mobilizing adult and . . .