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Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep trains, educates, and mobilizes professional photographers to provide beautiful portraits to families facing the untimely…
School on Wheels strives to enhance educational opportunities for homeless children from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Catherine’s goal is to shrink the…
PEN Pals Book Club & Support Group for Children of Incarcerated Parents (“PEN Pals Book Club”) was the brainchild of Olivia Stinson…
NextStep Recycling works closely with local schools to help children and their parent, guardian, or sibling, learn how to use technology in…
The Sparkle Effect is an innovative, student-run program that helps students across the country create cheerleading and dance teams that include students…
In 2003, Susan Runsvold set out to ensure that no child would have to experience a Christmas without any exciting gifts, an…
Furniture Sharehouse collects gently-used and new furniture from the general public and redistributes it free of charge to economically disadvantaged families, giving…
Ida has committed over 40 years to helping inner city children stay out of trouble by providing after school mentoring and activities.…
After Amy was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, she realized first-hand how difficult it was to organization child care for all of these…
After the death of Linda Wuestenberg’s son, Stevie in February of 2007 in a motor vehicle accident, Linda and her family worked…
Jessica Carscadden a 4th Grader in San Diego lived in a Chinese Orphanage till the age of 5. Now in San Diego…
In 2006 Brittany Kyte headed up a bullying awareness program called “Stand Up”. She recognizes that bullying has become such a prevalent…
Kristin Braddock designed and executed The Income Generation Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to equipping young women with skills to design and…
Lucy Duane brings attention to the killing of retired thoroughbred racehorses, in her home town of Louisville, KY, home to the Kentucky…
Charles Radl has been a civil service employee in the federal government for 34 years. He has his Masters of Science in…
Juanita Thomas-Davis helped in the creation of the Jasper County Food Bank and is now the acting director. Her participation in the…