January 1, 2007
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From July 2001 until January 2004, staff of the Washington, D.C.-based Food & Friends recruited, trained and deployed volunteers to prepare and deliver food to people with HIV/AIDS, cancer, dementia and other life-challenging illnesses.
April 1, 2007
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Staff from the national program office of the program Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved Americans established and operated a technical resource center.
October 25, 2007
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Service credit banking programs seek to help elderly people remain healthy, independent, and in their homes by enlisting volunteer caregivers to provide supportive services.
May 1, 1997
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From 1992 to 1996, the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic established a model volunteer clinic on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island, providing care to medically underserved residents and low-income people employed on the island.
November 1, 1996
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Beginning in August 1993, researchers at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., conducted extensive interviews with 250 volunteer leaders who had started their own community initiatives.
January 28, 2009
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Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health established the Resource Center, to support the growth and development of State Pain Initiatives.
December 17, 2008
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Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal seeks to reduce social isolation in distressed areas of Shreveport, La., and adjacent Bossier City and to disseminate its model of renewal to other cities.
December 17, 2008
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The position of community coordinator is a demanding one that can take an emotional toll, says Michael B. Leonard, D.D.S., associate coordinator of Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal.
December 17, 2008
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Stacy Davis is a resident of Shreveport's Cedar Grove neighborhood who had - past tense, he makes plain - a rough life on the streets.
December 17, 2008
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The sign reads 'Cedar Grove Garden of Love,' and on this bright spring day 79-year-old Margaret Myles is planting marigolds. "I want this place to be the prettiest place in the community," says Myles as she finishes her work.
