You are now viewing 1 - 10 of 18 results
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.
May 31, 2009 | Program Result
On a sunny day in April with cherry blossoms in full bloom, Mark Andersen walks the streets of one of the poorest, most troubled neighborhoods in Washington.
August 1, 2006 | Program Result
The Faith in Action Project of Houston recruited, trained and deployed volunteers to provide caregiver services to elderly people living in Houston's Independence Heights neighborhood.
December 1, 1997 | Program Result
United Seniors Health Cooperative established the Cooperative Care Network (CCN), a computerized service credit bank in the greater Washington area, to increase the availability of services for the elderly and the disabled living in their homes.
June 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Catholic Charities of Santa Fe trained 20 community volunteers to mentor 18 teens during their pregnancies, birthing and the first year of their babies' lives under a project called MentorMoms.
July 1, 2001 | Program Result
The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.
January 1, 2007 | Program Result
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.
February 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Art Science Research Laboratory provided equipment and supplies for recovery workers deployed at Ground Zero in Manhattan and the Fresh Kills landfill site in Staten Island after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
July 1, 2003 | Program Result
Legal intervention to protect the rights of children can be a necessary step in meeting their health needs.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result
On January 1, 1995, Chicago Youth Programs (CYP), in conjunction with Children's Memorial Hospital, became the third site of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids program.