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January 25, 2013 | Program Result
Experience Corps engages older volunteers to tutor - with a focus on reading - and mentor low-income kindergarten through third-grade students. It expanded and became an independent nonprofit organization.
March 11, 2010 | Journal Article
There are a number of simple steps potential health care volunteers can take now to ensure their skills can be utilized effectively in response to future disasters.
April 1, 1998 | Annual Report
Volunteerism in America
May 11, 2010 | Story
Scholars and alumni of the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development and Clinical Scholars programs donated medical services to victims of Haiti earthquake.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
When mothers of the most disadvantaged children participate in the community, their children's health improves, according to this analysis of an Indonesian longitudinal study of family health and welfare. This suggests community participation may be an important mechanism to help break the intergenerational cycle of poverty.
May 31, 2009 | Program Result
From 1983 to 2008, RWJF funded more than 1,700 projects across the country to support interfaith volunteer caregiving through three national programs.
May 31, 2009 | Program Result
One of the first Faith in Action projects, located in Boston, has survived, struggled and sometimes thrived since its initial funding in 1983.
May 31, 2009 | Program Result
A Faith in Action project in Nebraska negotiated the tricky terrain of providing needed help to fiercely independent elders.
May 31, 2009 | Program Result
Pam Determan, the executive director of VINE Faith in Action in Mankato, Minn., had all the right qualifications to lead the project - and it was still a struggle to establish and build the organization.
May 31, 2009 | Program Result
In rural Oregon, a Faith in Action project learned by trial and error how to meet the needs of isolated elderly and disabled residents.