For the 1991 Randy Travis album, see Point of Light.
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Points of Light
Founded
1990; 34 years ago (1990) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Type
Charitable organization
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Key people
George H. W. Bush (founder) Michelle Nunn (former CEO) Tracy Hoover (former CEO) Natalye Paquin (CEO)
Website
www.pointsoflight.org
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Points of Light presentation in the East Room of the White House in January 1993
Points of Light is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization headquartered in Georgia, United States dedicated to engaging more people and resources in solving serious social problems through voluntary service.
Each year, Points of Light mobilizes millions of people through affiliates in approximately 250 cities and partnerships with thousands of nonprofits and companies.[1]
^"Points of Light 2012 Year in Review" (PDF). Points of Light. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 4, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
The phrase "a thousand pointsoflight" was popularized by U.S. President George H. W. Bush and later formed the name of a private, non-profit organization...
Retrieved March 20, 2020. Board of Directors, PointsofLight Institute "PointsofLight 2012 Year in Review" (PDF). PointsofLight. Archived from the original...
defined as the collection of focus pointsoflight rays coming from an object. A real image is the collection of focus points actually made by converging/diverging...
October 2014) is a British fundraiser and recipient of the Pride of Britain Award and UK PointsofLight award. In 2020, aged five, inspired by Captain Tom...
star-like pointsoflight. High-resolution images of quasars, particularly from the Hubble Space Telescope, have shown that quasars occur in the centers of galaxies...
multiple observed pointsoflight traversing the atmosphere, their light's deviations average out and the viewer perceives less variation in light coming from...
image of an object is defined as the collection of focus pointsoflight rays coming from the object. A real image is the collection of focus points made...
During his Ambassador ofLight Tour, Kinkade visited cities nationwide to increase awareness and raise money for the PointsofLight Foundation and the Volunteer...
in 2000 as Child Advocate of the Year by the Children's Home Society, and received the Florida Governor's PointsofLight award in 2007 for his philanthropy...
Extra Mile – PointsofLight Volunteer Pathway is a memorial in Washington D.C. Located adjacent to the White House, the monument is composed of 34 bronze...
distinct pointsoflight, was taken with Cassini's narrow-angle camera and was released shortly afterwards. The Cassini probe took images of Earth and...
founded the Albino Foundation of Zambia and won the 230th PointsofLight#Commonwealth PointsofLightCommonwealth PointsofLight award, signed by Queen Elizabeth...
didn't become a PointsofLight world, it did adopt many of the other assumptions of 4e. In February 2015, the very first instance of the online feature...
dependent on the length of the planet's year or orbital period around the Sun. Planets, to the naked eye, appear as pointsoflight in the sky with variable...
volunteerism and volunteering. In the United States, it is organized by the PointsofLight foundation, and in Canada by Volunteer Canada. It is held in those...
total of 132 episodes were produced over six seasons. Cf. quotation "band of brothers" from play Henry V. Cf. phrase "Thousand pointsoflight". Cf. television...
Light painting, painting with light, light drawing, or light art performance photography are terms that describe photographic techniques of moving a light...
deforming light grid with occasional dark spots (like a crumpling fly-spotted flyscreen), and a sparse field of intense blue pointsoflight. Pressure...
The speed oflight in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately...
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