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Category: Volunteerism

Giving Back: Organizer learned at an early age how to get big rewards

When her career brought her to Jacksonville five years ago, Burgess began volunteering with the company’s community service projects group at the invitation of a friend. When her friend stepped down as the leader of the service group, Burgess volunteered to take that place.

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Giving Back: It’s an honor for this volunteer to help youngsters succeed

Just look at Kenneth Reddick’s calendar, and you know helping young people is a passion. He spends every moment he can doing whatever he can to encourage and support them.

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Giving back: Helping students is a year-round project for United Way corporate volunteer

DiPietro thrives on giving back to the children and families in need in our community, whether it’s collecting school supplies or rounding up items for the food pantry at Sandalwood Middle School, a United Way Full Service School.

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Giving back: ReadingPals volunteer helps turn the page on good reading habits

For Ramona Roberts, coaching her ReadingPal students so they can experience a love of reading is why she has volunteered through the United Way of Northeast Florida initiative for the last three years

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Tour of Thanks: United Way recognizes companies for community engagement

United Way recognizes companies with high-levels of community engagement in the fourth installment of the “Tour of Thanks” blog series.

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