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For four years he's been running Good Karma Bikes, an innovative San Jose-based social enterprise that is empowering the homeless through bicycles.

Chris van der Honert, left, and Doug Vidulich, bring donated food up from the basement to the main floor at Boulder's Emergency Family Assistance Association.

Harmony At Home has received donations from the following: $15,000 from the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, $5,000 from the Ralph Knox Foundation and $1,500 from the Northern California Chapter of American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Whistler may have had sub-zero temperatures this week, but the stars didn't mind, and still strutted their stuff for the cameras at the Whistler Film Festival.

Craig Witcher is no longer looking to help save on taxes -- he's looking to help save lives.

A receptionist who answered the phone at the foundation said Cooper had resigned Friday morning.

A former top aide to President Barack Obama is returning to the White House to co-ordinate policy aspects of the health care law.

Julio Arellano, right, and others participate in a tai chi class at the Asian Counseling and Referral Service in Rainier Valley.

Tana Hogan, Elijah Family Homes program administrator, right, talks with client Jenny Vasquez and her daughter, Eryn Nofiger, 18, during a recent visit to her Vasquez' Kennewick apartment.

Devon Liscum and brother Jeremy pose at a school in Mexico while helping out in the School of Champions program.

The fundraiser welcomes people who write a check of at least $75 to the charity of their choice.

"The hardest thing is coming up with the title of my major," Trawick, 19, told Ruth De Jesus, associate dean of intercultural advancement at Gettysburg College.

A mother and her pups awaits her flight. Volunteers at Van Nuys airport loaded over 400 animals onto 14 private planes so that they could go to new homes all over the Pacific Northwest.

Last December, a special fundraising effort was just the push that the Boulder Jewish Community Center needed to complete a campaign to construct a new building.

The Nature Conservancy in Washington is trying to buy and preserve three miles of private land along the Queets River on the Olympic Peninsula.

T. Lulani Arquette believes that the original, nature-based values of Native American peoples still have a lot to teach a Western culture that she said is teetering on the edge of suicide.

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LOTTERY funding for the Winchester Citizens Advice Bureau means that they have become the leading partner in a new project targeting those in need.

GlobeMed staff and Erich Lehman owner of 1975 Gallery at GlobeMed's 1st Annual Art Gala.

From the time Nevada's namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, was launched in 1914, it has held a special place in the hearts of the state's residents.