The Daily Points of Light
Deeply affected by news that several lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teens had taken their own lives due to bullying, Amelia Roskin-Frazee, 15, started The Make It Safe Project.
Meredith Iler founded Helping a Hero to raise money to build special needs homes. Since 2006, her organization has built more than 60 homes with 20 more on the way.
Chris Sleeper, a volunteer firefighter and EMT for more than 16 years, recently received the 2012 C&S Volunteer of the Year Award for dedicating more than 690 hours to service.
Although food kitchens and homeless shelters are doing all they can to feed and house those living in poverty, there are many non-basic necessities they simply can’t provide.
Wanting to give back to the hospital that helped him, Tony Kernan volunteered to update the Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital’s patient orientation book.
Cyndie Shepard founded Creating the Future, a program that offers direct academic tutoring in elementary, middle and high schools that lack funding, staffing and energy, to improve the achievement
A former foster child herself, Helen Ramagalia founded Foster SuperStars to serve as a mentoring program for foster children in her community.
Kyle Pease’s mission is to help improve the lives of disabled youth through sport. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at an early age, he never let illness slow him down.
The Mississippi Boy choir is a volunteer-driven organization whose mission is to enhance young men’s educations, character and social lives through song.