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America the Beautiful, America the Beautiful Fund, America the Beautiful, No date

America the Beautiful Fund is a national non-profit organization started in 1965 to encourage volunteer citizen efforts and to protect the natural and…

Tags: America the Beautiful, Conservation, Environment, Nonprofit, United States, Volunteer

AngMoKio, Yosemite National Park, AngMoKio, 7-Sep

Yosemite National Park is an American national park located in the western Sierra Nevada of Central California, bounded on the southeast by Sierra…

Tags: California, Environment, Park, United States, Yosemite

Bureau of Justice Statistics, The United States Criminal Justice System, Bureau of Justice Statistics, None

The flowchart of the events in the criminal justice system (shown in the diagram) updates the original chart prepared by the President's Commission on…

Tags: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, United States

City Club of Cleveland, Robert F Kennedy, "A Call to Stop Violence", City Club of Cleveland, April 5, 1968

Senator Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech to a city club in Cleveland, Ohio, bemoans the futility of violence and how it erodes love and connection…

Tags: Humanity, MLK, Racism, Robert F. Kennedy, United States, Violence

Council on Foundations, Council on Foundations, COF, 1949

The focus of the Council on Foundations is to create an organized pathway for foundations to take advantage of the unique confluence of opportunities…

Tags: Agencies, Council on Foundations, Foundations, Philanthropy, Policy, United States

David Battle, Peace Corps Volunteers, Peace Corps, 1972

The initial reactions to the Peace Corps proposal are convincing proof that we have, in this country, an immense reservoir of such men and…

Tags: AIDS, Community, Education, Health, JFK, Peace, Peace Corps, United States, Volunteerism

Defense Visual Information Service, Abuhena Saifulislam, First Muslim Chaplain in US Marine Corps, Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, Year 2014

From Wikipedia: Commander Abuhena Saifulislam is a Bangladeshi-American who is the first Muslim Naval Officer appointed as an imam chaplain serving…

Tags: Chaplain, Imam, Islam, Marine Corps, Navy, United States

Dersh, Stanley, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1791 United States Bill of Rights - First Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, Library of Congress, 1959

During the First Congress of the United States, after gaining its independence from Britain, twelve amendments to the new constitution were proposed…

Tags: 1791, Bill of Rights, Constitution, First Amendments, Individual Rights, United States

EnergyStar, ENERGY STAR, US Environmental Protection Agency Voluntary Program, 1992-, EnergyStar, None

More than 80 percent of Americans now recognize the ENERGY STAR label. American families and businesses have saved a total of nearly $230 billion on…

Tags: Clean Air Act, Climate, Energy Star, EPA, United States, Volunteerism

Federal Emergency Management Agency Photo Library, Convoy of Hope, Federal Emergency Management Agency, May 9 2005

Convoy of Hope has a cache of baby supplies ready to be shipped to victims of hurricane Katrina.

Convoy of Hope is a nonprofit organization that…

Tags: Baby Supplies, Convoy of Hope, Disaster Relief, Groceries, Health, Missouri, Nonprofits, United States