Amelia Roskin-Frazee

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. The organization donates books about sexual orientation and gender expression to schools and youth homeless shelters throughout the U.S. and abroad. Amelia personally reads and selects the fiction and nonfiction books that go into each package of 10 volumes – and tailors each package to the needs of the particular school or shelter. Amelia has given more than 60,000 teens access to books.

Meredith Iler

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.

Christopher Sleeper

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.

Clark Paradise

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. Clark Paradise saw this need and started Your Grandmother’s Cupboard to fill in the gaps. His organization provides personal care items like soap and toothpaste, along with clothes and blankets.

Anthony Kernan

Wanting to give back to the hospital that helped him, Tony Kernan volunteered to update the Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital’s patient orientation book. He compiled information on different types of brain injury and their affects to equip families and patients with clear information on what they might be facing. Tony wants each patient to be as informed as possible so they can focus on the most important aspects of their recovery.

Cyndie Shepard

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 gap in her community. By providing relationships and academic help to diverse, low-income students, Creating the Future inspires young students to get engaged in their schools and dream big about their futures. In addition to receiving tutoring and mentoring, more than 15,000 fifth-graders have toured a university campus, placing a vision of themselves in college and setting the goal of post-secondary education in their minds.

Helen Ramaglia

A former foster child herself, Helen Ramagalia founded Foster SuperStars to serve as a mentoring program for foster children in her community. The organization matches kids with Life Partners to help them stay on a track to academic and life success, offers a summer camp and volunteering opportunities. She also works to bring together the community’s various foster service organizations to maximize services and make sure no child falls through the cracks in the system.

Mississippi Boychoir

The Mississippi Boy choir is a volunteer-driven organization whose mission is to enhance young men’s educations, character and social lives through song. Led by Artistic Director Lelon Thompson, boys from all walks of life learn to love singing and become an efficient, cooperative team.

But the Boy choir is much more than making music. The state’s first and only incorporated nonprofit boy choir, the organization enhances education through the arts and offers boys age 6 to 18 training in leadership, responsibility, teamwork, self-discipline and valuable social skills. Hard work goes hand in hand with camaraderie, fun and the benefits of musical education.

Howard Williams

David Zhao

Bullying is no longer about the strong picking on the weak. Bullying has been replaced by a 24/7 online monster – cyber bullying. Children, teenagers and even adults that interact via social networking have fallen prey to cyber bullying – whether they have witnessed or experienced it.

David Zhao, a victim of cyber bullying in the past, co-founded the End to Cyber Bullying Organization in late 2011 in the effort to create a safer cyberspace. As the president of ETCB, he works with influential individuals to raise awareness, offer compassionate services and provide valuable information on cyber-bullying. With the aid of his Internet marketing firm, ETCB has reached more than 2 million online users within months of its incorporation.

Today, the End to Cyber Bullying Organization boasts more than 200 volunteers worldwide committed to inspiring others to take action and grow a safe cyber world. ETCB is continually reaching millions of online users across the globe. Its volunteers and board of directors are working hand-in-hand, starting ETCB initiatives and workshops in their respective communities around the world