Volunteers in Action
June 2, 2021

Lynn Langel
Oregon, Ohio
Lynn is a volunteer for Helping Hands of St. Louis. Helping Hands provides meals, food pantry staples, snack packs to homeless and many more services to the less fortunate.
Rita Demeter
Charleroi, Pennsylvania
Rita is a volunteer at St. Andrew Apostle Church where she and others have made over 1,000 Dignity Robes for breast cancer patients.
To hear about more volunteer projects, join the Members in Action group on the GBU Life Member Community. Join today at community.gbu.org.
The GBU Life Scholarship Awards support students in college, trade programs, non-college programs, and graduate school, helping them achieve their dreams, setting them on a career path and realizing life goals. Since its founding, the GBU Foundation has awarded 4,500 scholarships and educational grants totaling more than $3.2 million. In 2025, 215 members received $226,000 to support their two‑year, four‑year and graduate studies. Here’s a look at where the rubber meets the road — as we check in on past grantees to see how their scholarship awards have helped them stay on course, where they are now, and where they hope to be in the future.
To celebrate our 134th anniversary, GBU Life launched the Birthday Bash initiative, calling upon the GBU Life community to honor our fraternal legacy through service. GBU Life invited members, producers, and community leaders to assemble and deliver shelf-stable cake kits for individuals and families who may otherwise go without a birthday celebration. What can seem like a simple act of service could be the spark of hope someone needed.


