New podcast tells hero stories to wider audience
A year in the making, season one of “Fear on Hold,” a new podcast by the Carnegie Hero Fund, has recently launched. Each short episode features a Carnegie hero who …
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Carnegie Medal presentation to Justin Lee Greenwald
Carnegie Medal awardee Donald E. Thompson, right, of West Hills, Calif., is one of the newer volunteer presenters of the medal, and in March 2017 he had the opportunity to …
September 2016 edition of imPULSE
The September 2016 edition of imPULSE, the Commission’s quarterly newsletter, can be read online. This issue includes resumes of the latest awardees’ heroic acts, as well as articles about Carnegie Heroes who have …
President Obama gives Medal of Valor to Carnegie Hero
When both of Pittsburgh’s daily newspapers carried a photo of Donald E. Thompson on their front pages last May 17, 2015, it was like seeing an old friend. Thompson was …
Carnegie Hero visits Commission offices
Carnegie Hero Donald E. Thompson and his family visited the Pittsburgh offices of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission on Monday, June 13, 2016. Mr. Thompson, a Los Angeles police officer, …