According to this article, 39 year-old Brenda Jo Gillund of Grand Forks, North Dakota won a place as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans.  The program is sponsored by the Jaycees.  Gillund is the first person in North Dakota to receive this recognition.

From the article:

The Ten Outstanding Young Americans program is one of the oldest and most prestigious recognition programs in America. Annually since 1938, the United States Jaycees has sought out the 10 young men and women who best exemplify the finest attributes of America’s youthful achievers.

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As an oncology nurse at the Altru Cancer Center, Gillund, 39, co-founded Filling the Gap, a grant program designed to help lower income families with the financial and travel difficulties of their stay at the Cancer Center. The program works to “fill the gap” between what insurance, personal finance, and other methods of financial support can provide. She received a $50,000 grant for the program and worked to raise another $150,000. She received a scholarship to attend the Oncology Nursing Society Congress in 2007 to present information about the Filling the Gap program to other nurses internationally.

As an active and compassionate North Dakotan, Gillund makes a great representative for the rest of the state.