VAIL — Vail Valley Medical Center’s Volunteer Corps recently celebrated its annual Volunteer Service Awards and Recognition Luncheon. In 2015, the approximately 100 active volunteers contributed over ...

Nicole Jacobson was far from home and feeling alone, placed by the Peace Corps in a remote village in Zambia with a host father who had five wives and a disturbing interest in the young American ...

Graduates of the Environmental Studies Program go on to a wide assortment of careers. Many, but not all, fit into one of the four “career paths” listed below. Finding the right career path can be a ...

Among the millions of Americans whose lives have been upended by COVID-19 are the 7,000 who volunteer abroad through the Peace Corps. A couple of months ago, 34-year-old Adam Greenberg and his partner ...

Neighborhood resilience relies on the commitment of volunteers who empower neighborhood preparedness in the Citizen Corps program around the country. This national program links the layperson to ...

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI (CBS DETROIT)-- Michigan State University graduate and Farmington Hills resident Charles "Randy" Perkins considers his first trip and experience in the Dominican Republic a ...

The Peace Corps will start sending volunteers overseas again in mid-March after it evacuated them from posts around the world two years ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government program ...

Emma Tremblay, then a 25-year-old Peace Corps volunteer from Seattle, was 4,000 miles from home on an exam table in Ecuador. A physician selected by the Peace Corps loomed over her and firmly placed ...

More than 50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps, an organization dedicated to providing Americans an opportunity to live and work in foreign countries to address pressing ...

The Peace Corps agreed to a record $750,000 legal settlement in recent weeks over allegations it botched the medical care of a volunteer leading to her 2018 death. Lawyers for the family of Bernice ...

The mayor had called Teaneck "ground zero" for the state's infections. In Teaneck, New Jersey, volunteer EMTs are constantly answering potential and confirmed COVID-19 calls, sometimes wearing ...