The Extra Mile — Points of Light Volunteer Pathway is a national monument dedicated to the spirit of service in America. Honoring heroes of our Nation’s service movement, the Extra Mile comprises a series of bronze medallions forming a one-mile walking path just blocks from the White House.

On The Extra Mile -- Points of Light Volunteer Pathway, which begins at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 15^th Street NW, kids can learn about the honorees by reading their bronze medallions.  People such as Wallace J. Campell, Founder of CARE,  Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, Cesar Chavez, Co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, Millard and Linda Fuller, Founder and Co-founder of Habitat for Humanity and Harriet Tubman, leader of the Underground Railroad, have impacted millions of lives with their passion and dedication to their individual causes.

The generationOn “make your mark on the world: go the extra mile” project includes a collection of kid-friendly fact sheets to help kids learn about the Extra Mile honorees and the issues they supported.  The Extra Mile – Facts for Kids sheets also offer service project ideas.

make your mark on the world: go the extra mile
Goals:  

• To engage youth in selecting and addressing issues of interest in their communities 
• To motivate youth to initiate or implement a "make your mark on the world: go the extra mile" service project
• To inspire youth to explore local needs and civic engagement on a kid friendly level
• To encourage youth to "make your mark on the world: go the extra mile" by making a difference in their communities  

The Extra Mile – Facts for Kids
Volunteer Pathway Honorees

Jane Addams - Founder, Hull House

Edgar Allen - Founder, Easter Seals

Ethel Percy Andrus - Founder, American Association of Retired Persons 

Susan B. Anthony - Suffragist

Roger Baldwin - Founder, American Civil Liberties Union

Ruth Standish Baldwin and George Edmund Haynes - Co-founders of the National Urban League

Clara Barton - Founder, American Red Cross

Clifford Beers - Founder, Modern Mental Health Movement

Ballington & Maud Booth - Co-founders, Volunteers of America

William D. Boyce - Founder, Boy Scouts of America

Wallace J. Campbell - Founder, CARE

Rachel Carson - Environmentalist

Cesar Chavez - Co-founder, United Farm Workers of America

Ernest Kent Coulter - Founder, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America

Dorothea Dix - Advocate for the Reform of Institutions for the Mentally Ill

Frederick Douglass - Abolitionist

Millard and Linda Fuller - Co-founders, Habitat for Humanity

Samuel Gompers - Founder, American Federation of Labor

Charlotte and Luther Gulick - Co-founders, Camp Fire USA

William Edwin Hall - Founder, Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Paul Harris - Founder, Rotary International

Edgar J. Helms - Founder, Goodwill Industries

Melvin Jones - Founder, International Association of Lions Club

Helen Keller - Founder, American Foundation for the Blind

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights Leader

Juliette Gordon Low - Founder, Girls Scouts

John Muir - Conservationist

Mary White Ovington/W.E.B. Dubois - Founders, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Eunice Kennedy Shriver - Founder, Special Olympics

Robert Smith and William Wilson - Co-founders, Alcoholics Anonymous

Harriet Tubman - Leader of the (Underground Railroad) Effort to Free Slaves

Booker T. Washington - Civil Rights Leader

Ida Wells - Barnett - Leader of Anti-lynching Movement