The ideas can be simple: converting a vehicle into a wash station for homeless veterans. Providing books for kids while they wait at the barbershop. Turning a passion for diving into a movement to save coral reefs. <\/p>\n
All of the honorees will receive a grant along with organizational and capacity-building support from The Elevate Prize Foundation. They will also participate in the foundation\u2019s annual Make Good Famous Summit in Miami. <\/p>\n
Growing up, Yasmine Arrington knew firsthand the challenges that came with having an incarcerated parent. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy father has been in and out of jail and prison my entire life,\u201d she said. \u201cI began to do research, and I learned that there\u2019s so many other people that are kind of my age experiencing what I\u2019m experiencing.\u201d <\/p>\n
When she was 16, she created the nonprofit\u00a0ScholarCHIPS\u00a0\u2013 with CHIPS as an acronym for Children of Incarcerated Parents \u2013 to help young people like herself with scholarships, mentoring and a network of support. <\/p>\n
The organization has since awarded more than $450,000 in scholarships and other aid and supported more than 80 scholars working toward their college degrees. New scholars join the program each year. <\/p>\n
In many regions of Ghana, it can take hours to get to the nearest hospital. As a result, many people lose their lives to treatable illnesses. Osei Boateng experienced this personally when he lost his grandmother and aunt. <\/p>\n
Feeling an urgent call to help, Boateng decided he would make it his life\u2019s mission to bring health care to remote communities in Ghana. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese people don\u2019t have the luxury of time,\u201d Boateng said. <\/p>\n
Boateng started his nonprofit,\u00a0OKB Hope Foundation, and in 2021, he converted a van into a mobile doctor\u2019s office and started bringing health care directly to those in need. <\/p>\n
A few times a week, the mobile clinic and medical team travel long distances to remote communities in Ghana and provide free routine medical care. <\/p>\n
In 2008, a stroke and subsequent traumatic brain injury (TBI) nearly killed Stacey Buckner. Today, she says her miraculous road to recovery led her to the outreach work that has become her life\u2019s mission. <\/p>\n
Through her program,\u00a0Off-Road Outreach, Buckner has helped more than 1,000 veterans in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Using her own off-road vehicle \u2013 a Jeep that has accommodations for water, heating, and cooking \u2013 Buckner provides mobile showers, laundry services, and meals to homeless veterans. <\/p>\n
Since 2015, Buckner travels to hard-to-reach places each week to find and serve veterans in need. Without judgment, Buckner asks what she can do to help them. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere should be no homeless vets, period,\u201d Buckner said. \u201cI am to a lot of them their only family.\u201d <\/p>\n
In 1996, Mike Goldberg left his job in Los Angeles to follow his passion for underwater diving. Goldberg and his family later settled in Islamorada, in the Florida Keys, and opened a dive shop, Key Dives. <\/p>\n
As an avid diver, Goldberg developed a strong appreciation for the coral reefs and their essential role in the marine ecosystem. Today, he\u2019s on a mission to help bring the area\u2019s coral reefs back to life through his nonprofit,\u00a0I.CARE. <\/p>\n
Goldberg says the organization has transplanted more than 10,000 corals and educated more than 2,000 people. The I.CARE team monitors and maintains all of the transplanted coral, making sure it\u2019s thriving. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s so much work to do. We\u2019re just getting started,\u201d Goldberg said. <\/p>\n
When Tescha Hawley received her breast cancer diagnosis at age 46, the lifesaving treatment she needed several times a month was at a hospital a three-hour drive away. <\/p>\n
Hawley, a member of the Gros Ventre tribe, has two master\u2019s degrees, yet the challenges she had to navigate to receive the care she needed were daunting. As a single mother, Hawley ultimately took leave without pay to complete her treatment. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs American Indian people, we represent the highest (rates) of everything \u2013 diabetes, heart disease, cancer \u2013 and we receive the poorest health care,\u201d Hawley said. <\/p>\n
After her experience, Hawley founded the\u00a0Day Eagle Hope Project\u00a0in 2017, and her nonprofit has since expanded to address many other needs of Native Americans in her community. <\/p>\n
In 2008, first grade teacher Alvin Irby stopped by a Bronx barbershop after school for a haircut. Before long, one of his students came in. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s kind of looking bored,\u201d Irby recalled. \u201cI\u2019m looking at this student (thinking), \u2018He should be practicing his reading.\u2019 But I didn\u2019t have a book.\u201d <\/p>\n
That moment stayed with Irby, and five years later he started\u00a0Barbershop Books. Since 2013, the nonprofit has brought more than 50,000 free children\u2019s books to more than 200 barbershops in predominantly Black neighborhoods across the country. <\/p>\n
Irby is working to change lower literacy rates by encouraging boys to read for fun, on their own. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur program is about getting kids to say three words: \u2018I\u2019m a reader,\u2019\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Kevin Pearce was at the height of his professional snowboarding career and bound for the Winter Olympics. During training, he struck his head on the edge of a halfpipe, resulting in a traumatic brain injury. <\/p>\n
He had to relearn how to walk and talk. He eventually started yoga, and his family saw how it transformed him and gave him a sense of hope. <\/p>\n
\u201cI remember \u2026 coming out of a class with him and just seeing in his face this new expression, this new person,\u201d his brother Adam Pearce said. <\/p>\n
Wanting to bring hope and healing to others through yoga and meditation, Adam and Kevin co-founded the\u00a0LoveYourBrain Foundation. The organization aims to create a safe space and supportive community where people with a TBI can heal together. <\/p>\n
Estefan\u00eda Rebell\u00f3n understands the fear and uncertainty felt by the more than 70 million migrant and forcibly displaced children around the world. She was a migrant child, too. <\/p>\n
In 2018, she was so moved after volunteering in migrant camps in Tijuana, Mexico, that she put her acting career on hold. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere were no schools set up to help these kids. They were walking around the camps barefoot,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Rebell\u00f3n and her partner used their savings to buy tents and supplies and set up a makeshift school at the US-Mexico border. Then they transformed buses into mobile classrooms to reach more families. <\/p>\n
Now, through her nonprofit,\u00a0Yes We Can World Foundation, she provides education for children living in limbo in shelters at the border. Since 2019, Rebell\u00f3n says the group has served more than 3,100 migrant children. <\/p>\n
Every parent\u2019s worst nightmare is losing their child. Shamayim Harris has lived through that nightmare \u2013 twice. <\/p>\n
Her 2-year-old son was struck and killed in a hit-and-run in 2007 in Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit. Years later, her 23-year-old son was shot and killed while on a neighborhood watch. <\/p>\n
\u201cI needed to \u2026 change grief into glory, pain into power,\u201d said Harris, who is known as Mama Shu. <\/p>\n
In 2016, she created the\u00a0Avalon Village, a nonprofit with the mission of creating a safe and nurturing space for the entire Highland Park community. Today, she and her organization own 45 lots of land across three blocks. The biggest project has been fully refurbishing an abandoned house into an after-school hub for children. <\/p>\n
Dr. Kwane Stewart\u2019s outreach on the streets started more than a decade ago. On a whim, the veterinarian stopped to examine the dog of a homeless man outside a 7-11 where he got his coffee. <\/p>\n
Stewart treated the dog\u2019s skin condition and the animal was transformed. But for Stewart, the man\u2019s gratitude was a wakeup call: \u201cThank you for not ignoring me\u201d were the words that Stewart says inspired his next chapter. <\/p>\n
Stewart\u2019s nonprofit,\u00a0Project Street Vet, provides medical care to the pets of people experiencing homelessness. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what your situation is \u2026 I see a pet in need, and I see a person who cares for them dearly who just needs some help,\u201d Stewart said. <\/p>\n\n
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