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Invisible Hands

A Helping Hand During COVID Comes with a Caring Ear Volunteers deliver essentials to the homebound needy, along with friendship and solace Seeing a Need and Seeding a Solution Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Yale University student Liam Elkind was in his...

Kellman Brown Academy JSTEM Lab

Breaking Down Barriers with JSTEM An unlikely school partnership enriches the hearts and minds of our future innovators. The students at Kellman Brown Academy, a K-8 Jewish Day School in Voorhess, New Jersey are immersing themselves into a brand new STEM (Science...

Long Island Crisis Center

An Unexpected Cry For Help Long Island crisis intervention agency prevents suicide among a surprising group. U.S. suicide rates have increased by 33% in the last 20 years, according to the Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics. In the...

YMCA of the Pines

Summer Camp Scholarship Offers Hope to Youth in Need of an Empowering Home-Away-From-Home A YMCA camp in New Jersey and a Philadelphia bank carry on a beloved camp counselor’s heartfelt legacy. Nicholas Peter DiMona III was a camper-turned-counselor at YMCA of the...

Equest

Returning Veterans Find Healing in Equine Therapy A Dallas Bank uses its heart and money to serve the people who served us. Human beings search for a greater meaning to life, and CrossFirst Bank in Dallas, Texas creates the conditions for personal fulfillment by...

Educate Tomorrow

Educate Tomorrow Provides a Timely Lifeline for Former Foster Kids Education and Opportunity Come from Making the Right Connections "We like to say talent is equally distributed among a nation's children, but opportunity is not." This conviction came to Virginia...

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Sports Unity Program

Sports Unity Program Ask David Quatresols how the MRC Sports Unity Program—an innovative, community-based initiative for kids with special needs—began, and he answers with a single word: “Conversation.” One day, eight years ago, he was talking with a friend,...

EKM Foundation

From the Heights of Olympia to the Nitty-Gritty of Success A Black entrepreneur draws deeply on her family heritage to help others...help others By any measure, Sheryl Grant is a person of tremendous accomplishment. After a three-decade career as a corporate...

Filmmaking for Good

How the Art of Filmmaking Became a Force for Good —and a Girl Scouts merit badge, along the way. Jessica Kizorek just had a sudden epiphany. On the day she realized what she wanted to do for the rest of her life, she was already a successful filmmaker who had...

Harlem Family Institute

Harlem Family Institute Harlem Family Institute founder Stephen Kurtz shares about opening the psychotherapy program at The Children’s Storefront in the late 1980’s – a tuition-free private school led by poet Ned O'Gorman that offered a very unconventional approach to...

Healthworks Academies

Healthworks Academies Building the Professional Pipeline for the Future of Healthcare Solving a hidden threat to national security. “According to a study by the Association of American Medical Colleges, by 2020, one-third of doctors will reach retirement age,...

Freehold Fire Department

Freehold Fire Department For almost 150 years, the Freehold Volunteer Fire Department located in Monmouth County, New Jersey has been protecting the lives and property of Freehold Borough residents and providing mutual aid to surrounding municipalities. In 2018, over...