All People Making a Difference
Difference MakerFlavors From Afar: Where refugees cook up new livesWhen refugees start over, they leave behind careers, loved ones, and beloved places. Flavors From Afar restaurant dishes up meaningful paths forward, building on tastes from home.
Difference MakerIn Sri Lanka, Pastor Moses shows the power of a free lunchGenerosity in one pastor鈥檚 youth聽has created a ripple effect, helping buoy thousands of Sri Lankans through times聽of hunger and hardship.
Difference MakerBuilding Men teaches students what manhood can really meanWith male peers and mentors, Building Men helps young boys and teens gain perspective, work to restore self-worth, and learn to calm emotions.
Fiddler Dennis Stroughmatt saves a French dialect 鈥� and culturePreserving dialects keeps communities 鈥� and their histories 鈥� alive.聽Dennis聽Stroughmatt honors his forebears who聽spoke, and sang, in French.
When raptors and urbanization collide, these volunteers are there to helpRaptors are bellwethers of human development, injuring themselves on what is put in their flight path. The Owl Moon Raptor Center is there to help.聽
For Amber Richards, life after overdose starts with compassionAn overdose can feel like the end of a road.聽With Project Hope, it can be the start of a fresh path.
Difference MakerFreedom is his business: How Jared Genser extracts political prisonersIran鈥檚 longest-held American prisoner was freed Oct. 1. His attorney鈥檚 legal strategy behind the scenes has similarly helped hundreds.
He left gang life behind. Now Curtis Toler helps others find peace.In one of America鈥檚 most violent cities, Curtis Toler of Chicago CRED is helping young people see the power of choosing peace.
At Fly Compton, the sky鈥檚 not a limit. Neither is race.Aviation鈥檚 underrepresentation of minorities spurs a group of Black pilots to pass along their skills to the next generation of professionals.
Difference MakerRelief from the fields: Tackling food waste, hunger in one swoopMore than 38 million Americans face food insecurity. ProduceGood gets fresh fruits and vegetables to people who may otherwise have none.
Difference MakerSowing dignity: Vertical Harvest grows produce 鈥� and communityThis Wyoming greenhouse provides meaningful employment for people with disabilities, planting seeds of dignity to cultivate robust lives and professional success.
Difference Maker鈥楨l Librotraficante鈥�: Getting banned Latino books into readers鈥� handsTony Diaz has spent two decades stitching together a network that encourages Latino writers and readers to treasure their stories 鈥� and themselves.
Difference MakerIn Cleveland, fine dining serves up training 鈥� and dignity 鈥� after prisonInspired by his own experience, a chef offers an instructional approach in which skills and dignity are both key ingredients to helping formerly incarcerated people get back on their feet.
Christine M鈥橪ot breathes new life into Indigenous educationA spirit of Indigenous renewal is helping to transform education in Canada, giving voice to silent histories and reviving Indigenous methods of learning.
Difference MakerSchool on Wheels delivers tutoring 鈥� and hope 鈥� for homeless studentsThousands of homeless students in LA are matched with tutors and get school supplies through the nonprofit School on Wheels.
From soup to jobs: How Boston鈥檚 Haley House builds communityHaley House is more than a soup kitchen.聽The organization鈥檚 live-in model takes a holistic approach to combating homelessness and food insecurity.聽
Difference MakerMeet the volunteers maintaining the Appalachian TrailDedication. Love. Humility. Those are just a few of the qualities volunteers who maintain the Appalachian Trail bring to the paths year after year.聽
Laughing Bear Bakery has a recipe for a fresh start out of prisonHiring at Laughing Bear Bakery is aimed at those with a criminal record 鈥� it鈥檚 a place to give them skills and the space to start anew without stigma.
Difference MakerGame changer: How Sam Wasser became the ivory detectiveSam Wasser developed forensics to link poaching to perpetrators, and a new center brings together scientists and governments to expand the work.
Difference MakerHelping homeless moms 鈥榞et their shot鈥� at opportunity and educationHomeless mothers聽get life-changing emotional, financial, and professional mentoring 鈥� not just money 鈥� from the Hearts of Gold nonprofit program.
