Love lives on in the heartbeat of a stranger
Perhaps the first sound Jessica Moore ever heard was her twin sister Haley’s heartbeat in the womb. On April 25, 2017, Jessica listened to that…
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Articles from Circles Social Datebook & Charity Register Volume 3
Saying ‘yes’ as a way to help change the world
Active as a volunteer with UCOM since 1997 through her church, Philip R. Cousin AME, Sandra Hicks said that volunteering was something she has always…
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Serving so no one faces the crisis of hunger alone
United Community Outreach Ministry (UCOM) Executive Director Sara Mitchell often invokes the words of television personality Mr. Rogers when she thinks of the food insecure…
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Retirement leads to a life helping others
Six years ago, when he retired as a labor relations administrative manager with the Jacksonville Energy Authority’s St. Johns River Power Park, Bill Hiers decided…
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Humbly feeding the hungry since 1995
Visiting Trinity Lutheran Church’s Food Pantry in Riverside can offer deep lessons in humility, and not just for the clients. “I’m always telling the volunteers,…
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Becoming a better version of self by helping others
When North Florida School of Special Education students head out to the community, they are always encouraged to “be the best version of themselves.” However,…
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Spirit of giving, dedication to homeless alive in downtown Jacksonville
As Northeast Florida’s largest provider of comprehensive services for homeless men, women and children, I. M Sulzbacher Center plays a major role in the city’s…
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Volunteering teens gain confidence
When Sandalwood High School teacher Maria Gumbayan first brought her students to volunteer in The Salvation Army’s food pantry 12 years ago, the experience came…
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Meeting the needs of the hungry without discrimination
As a well-known advocate for the lost, the vulnerable, the needy, the poor, the hurting, the helpless, and the hopeless, it comes as no surprise…
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Church group provides tuna casserole, served with love
On the last Friday of every month, Bill Kornmayer and his wife, Rita, join a small team of volunteers from Our Lady Star of the…
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Nonprofit provides 20 years of compassionate care to Beaches’ homeless
It’s been 20 years since members of four Beaches churches joined together to create Mission House, the only day facility at the Jacksonville beaches that…
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Commitment to underserved shines through agency’s work
It was Lutheran Social Service’s mission to fill in the gaps for neighbors in need of a meal that attracted Jeff Viau and his wife,…
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Feeding the many faces of hunger
For more than 35 years, employees at Lutheran Social Services (LSS) have been working to nourish hungry Northeast Florida residents though a wide array of…
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Retired volunteer busies herself by giving back
For seven years Paula Caplan has served once a week at the Jewish Family and Community Services’ Max Block Food Pantry. Although she wishes she…
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Food pantry aims to help people help themselves
Falling in line with the century-old Jewish Family & Community Service’s mission to “help people help themselves,” JFCS’s Max Block Food Pantry does not discriminate…
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Nonprofit provides alternate way to feed people in need
Since its inception five years ago, Hunger Fight has distributed more than 3,711,943 prepackaged meals to children and families deemed food insecure throughout the Southeast….
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Becoming part of “something bigger than myself”
It was the song “Fill a Heart” Tori Kelly wrote for the campaign Child Hunger Ends Here that inspired the Williams sisters, Khadjah and Vivica,…
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Major food bank distributes food so hungry can be fed
There is no single human need greater than food, and because hunger triggers crime, and affects unemployment, worker productivity, and education, Feeding Northeast Florida is…
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Working hard so no one will go hungry
It was fear of being bored in retirement that eventually led Emma Holt to volunteer at the Farm Share warehouse on Jessie Street, where she…
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Making sure good food doesn’t go to waste
Every year more than 40 percent of the food grown by farmers is either dumped in a landfill or left in the field to rot…
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