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Man Risks Border Crossing to Help Impoverished Farmers Build a Co-op

Most Mexicans cross the border to find work and send money home to impoverished families, but Jesus Hernandez's reason was different: He was crossing the border so others wouldn't have to. His mission was to help impoverished Mexican farmers by starting a coffee co-op.

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10 Service Groups Making Tremendous Progress on Intractable Problems

Here are ten of the most innovative service programs, particularly noteworthy because their creators refused to be daunted by the breadth of the challenge, the absence of any model to guide them, or even a lack of expertise. The efforts of these everyday Americans are having an impact and millions are benefiting in the process.

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Haitian-Canadian Singer Quits Career to Construct Shipping Container Homes in Haiti

Luck Mervil, a Haitian-born Canadian singer, has taken leave from a successful musical career to help the earthquake-displaced people in his homeland by spearheading the building of a village of homes that will withstand any natural disaster by using retired shipping containers.

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Clean River Crusader is Named Hardest Working Man in America (Video)

The winner of Mitchum's Hardest Working Man in America contest was awarded $100,000 last month for his labor of love: hauling tires, trash -- and even rusty cars -- out of the nation's rivers on behalf of his non-profit conservation foundation.

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Obama Singles Out Active Soldier to Receive Medal of Honor

22-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta who was on patrol with his unit in Afghanistan, ran straight into the teeth of a Taliban attack to aid three wounded soldiers, one by one, who had been separated from the others in the ambush. On Friday, the White House announced that President Obama decided to award Giunta the Medal of Honor.

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The Hero of a Nation Looks Back and Ahead

After years of trying to dodge the fame Olympic success brought her, an Aboriginal athlete who carried the torch that opened the Sydney Games in 2000, and won the 400-meter gold to fulfill her nation's expectations, decided to use her celebrity to help educate the Aboriginal children from northeastern Australia, where her mother is from.

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Radio Personality Searches for Passion as Volunteer for 30 Charities in 30 Days

On September 1st, New York City based radio personality, Trey Morgan embarked on a journey designed to shock him into a more philanthropic way of life. He hopes his non-profit quest to volunteer for 30 charities in 30 days finally ends the quandary which has kept him from volunteering in the past, namely, among so many great charities, which group to choose.

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Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2010 Announced

A Scotsman providing free daily meals to 400,000 children, a former child soldier clearing land mines in Cambodia and a Texas builder giving injured vets mortgage-free homes are among the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010. The top 10 -- remarkable individuals chosen for their sacrifices and accomplishments -- will now compete for public votes online and be honored in a televised gala with a grand prize of $100,000.