Good deeds

- Kilpatrick Stockton has received the 2008 National Law Journal Pro Bono Award for its work to create a comprehensive training manual for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that is used to represent families in international child abduction cases. During the past five years, the firm has provided representation to 26 families to help return abducted children to their homes. Kilpatrick Stockton lawyers have provided more than 5,500 hours of pro bono work valued at $1.5 million and have spent about $130,000 to $150,000 in out-of-pocket expenses.

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Dr. Paul Fischer (from left), of the Center for Primary Care, and Lisa Nagle, the Medical Assisting Program chairwoman for Augusta Technical College, present a scholarship check to Kathryn Chastain, an Augusta Tech Medical Assisting Program graduate, with Augusta Tech President Terry Elam. Dr. Fischer, a trustee on the board of the Augusta Technical College Foundation and the chairman for the Advisory Board of the Medical Assisting Program, established the Lisa Nagle Medical Assisting Scholarship Endowment with the Augusta Tech Foundation to help Medical Assisting students with their educational expenses. The endowment is named in honor of program Chairwoman Lisa Nagle for her many years of hard work in the program. The Medical Assisting Program is a major source of medical assistants for many of the physicians' practices and hospitals in the Augusta area.

- Golden Harvest Food Bank has received a $50,000 grant from The UPS Foundation , the charitable arm of UPS. The grant will help support expansion and renovation to the food bank's Aiken warehouse, allowing for more efficient food distribution to five counties in upstate South Carolina recently added to the food bank's service area.

"We are very grateful for this funding from the UPS Foundation. It will enable us to better meet the needs of the population in our expanded region," said Rusty Marsh, Golden Harvest's South Carolina administrator. "We are particularly thankful for the ongoing generosity and support of UPS and its employees."