At 23, Jose Lopez has spent over half his life fighting for justice and opportunity in his native Bushwick, Brooklyn. He now runs the Youth Power Project, the program which introduced him to community activism in his adolescence. The Youth Power Project is ...
Imagine snowboarding for the first time if you had never seen snow: the awe you'd feel on the the lift. The fear looking down from the summit. The sense of accomplishment upon reaching the bottom. Steve Larosiliere, Executive Director of Stoked Mentoring, believes ...
After being solicited for sex by a barrage of very young girls while traveling through Cambodia, Guy Jacobson learned two things: First, child sexploitation was not something many people talked about, or even knew about. Second, the solution was not just to remove ...
Ami Dar’s career as a social entrepreneur began with an epiphany, $1,000, and a childhood dream to change the world. Years later, he would act on that dream when he founded Idealist, a pioneering web-based portal that serves as a one-stop shop for ...
Remember how dull (and awkward!) your high school sex ed and life skills classes were? Maura Minsky, co-Founder and Executive Director of Scenarios USA, has a different approach: let young people do the teaching - through film. Scenarios USA solicits screenplays from youth, ...
Geoff Cape, whose background was in carpentry and real estate development, founded Evergreen in 1991 to help city-dwelling Canadians reconnect with nature at a time when urban planning was obsessed with expanding the built environment. He has enlisted tens of thousands of volunteers ...
PROBLEM: Like the youths it serves, the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) often finds itself living close to the edge. Through its 11 year history, it has had to scramble continuously to keep the money flowing and the doors open, explains project ...