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  • Lisa Marie Platske

    Lisa Marie Platske, CEO of international leadership development company Upside Thinking, Inc., speaker, business coach, and author, is deeply invested in her community and doing what she can to make the world a better place.

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  • Teddy Gross - Using Common Cents To Save The World

    Teddy Gross is the founder and executive director of Common Cents, a national not-for-profit educational organization, which specializes in designing citizenship programs for children and young people, and supporting their work in schools throughout the country and across all demographic divides.
     

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  • Patricia Wenskunas - Assault Survivor, Victim Advocate

    Patricia Wenskunas was victimized at an early age, and again as a young woman, but both times instinctively survived. Now she helps others learn how to overcome their plight as a victim of violent crime and learn how to survive and thrive!

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  • Lisa Ostrow - Songs of Sight

    Boston area resident & recording artist, Lisa Ostrow, volunteers her time and talents to raise funds for the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Foundation and the Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the Blind (PAD/NFB) - both nonprofits are dear to her heart.

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  • Anna Bissonnette - Ending Elder Homelessness

    For 20 years, Anna Bissonnette has been a force to be reckoned with when it comes to elder homelessness. As a community nurse, Bissonnette, now 75, of Waltham could not walk away from the patients she was treating in various Boston neighborhoods. It was the mid-1980s and seniors in the 70s and 80s were being forced out of their homes and into homeless shelters by gentrification.

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  • Pauline Alighieri - High Flying Humanitarian

    It's the Cinderella story of fundraisers. With the help of fellow Delta Air Line flight attendants, Pauline Alighieri, set out to raise $5,000 in memory of her good friend and colleague who lost her battle with breast cancer.

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  • An Interview with Richard Goldman, Compleat Philanthropist

    THE GOLDMAN RULE.

    When Asher Goldman was growing up, his grandfather, Richard Goldman, often recited the Golden Rule. To the ears of a young boy the Golden Rule sounded like the ‘Goldman Rule.'

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