Your Real Champion

For 40 years, the Pals for Life organization has shown the healing effect pets can have when they share their love as companions to people feeling alone or stressed. The 80 volunteers bring their own pets to the elderly in assisted living facilities, along with those in hospice, physical therapy centers, […]

Your Real Champion – “Angel Flight East” Angel Flight East (AFE) is a nonprofit organization that provides free transportation to qualified individuals requiring crucial medical care at distant facilities. AFE serves the Northeast region of the US, and for destinations beyond their reach, they link with other volunteer pilot organizations. […]

Your Real Champion – “Don’t Stall, Just Call” Maria Ciammetti is a loving mother who said goodbye to her youngest child when he died after alcohol intoxication. She turned her grief into a passion to help put other young people in a different direction – to drink responsibly and to […]

For more than 20 years, Independence Blue Cross has partnered with over 60 nonprofit organizations through their corporate volunteer program called The Blue Crew. Employees, family members, and retirees invest their time and talent to make a positive impact on those in need. Last year, employees donated more than 6200 […]

Your Real Champion – “Healing as a Doctor and a Nun” Sister Judith Jacobus is devoted to the art of healing. After medical school and residency, she built a large family medicine practice filled with grateful patients. She greatly appreciated the close relationships she had with family, friends, and patients […]

Lower Merion Fire Department fields over 2500 calls a year. Each time, fire fighters stop what they’re doing–leave their homes, their families, their beds–and willingly walk into danger and some don’t make it back. Add to that, most of the fire fighters in the suburbs are volunteers. Aside from calls […]

Your Real Champion® – MANNA From Heaven Sue Daugherty is a hard worker.  She began working in her neighborhood supermarket when she was 13 and continued through college.  At first she considered being a nurse, but missed the deadline to enroll.  Instead she joined her friend in the study of nutrition.  […]

Special Olympics offers programs in sports, health, education and community building to “tackle the inactivity, stigma, isolation, and injustice that people with intellectual disabilities face” providing an inclusive environment which brings people with and without intellectual disabilities to share in the joy of sports.  Danny is a gold medal athlete and his mother […]

Your Real Champion® – Anne Marie Hughes: Thankful for Second Chances At the young age of 45, Anne Marie Hughes was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas, discovered only by chance when she had a CAT scan to evaluate symptoms of diverticulitis. Tune in to hear this story of courage and persistence. You will […]