17-year-old Katie Stagliano started this organization to teach kids about growing vegetables and providing those crops to disadvantaged populations to help fight hunger.
Chef Chad Houser created this Dallas-based restaurant and culinary training facility to transform the lives of at-risk youth who have spent time in juvenile facilities.
Project leader Julie Garreau works with young people from poverty stricken Native American families in the Eagle Buttle, SD, community to create services that foster healthy choices and life practices.
Founded by John and Tom D'Eri, Rising Tide Carwash hires individuals with autism and teaches them job skills to help them on a path towards independent living.
As a nurse recognizing the need for medical care that serves all populations, Maria Gomez founded Mary's Center to provide health care, education and social services to individuals whose needs too often go unmet.
The Treehouse Foundation is building inter-generational Treehouse Communities where families adopting children from foster care live next door to older Americans who act as "honorary grandparents".
Jack Viorel leads this organization, which empowers disadvantaged, medically fragile and special needs children by exposing them to the ocean environment and teaching them to surf.