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Eayikes [say E-Yikes] is a non-profit built by 3 friends – Alex, Kyle, and Ray – that’s creating safe, creative spaces to help young folks make positive changes in their lives and their worlds. They aim to teach kids how to really listen and cultivating wonder. “You’ll hear other people’s stories and experiences, things that haven’t happened to you and…
Defy Ventures is helping rewrite the narrative of American prisoners by giving them a real shot at success. Seth Sundberg is one of those Americans who has big stories and big dreams. A one-time NBA player, Seth fell into some money trouble in 2010 and spent the next several years locked up behind bars. To deal with life behind bars…
Fred Johnson, founder of Shakespeare with Veterans, says there is an unexplainable power in Shakespeare’s words of 400 years ago that modern language can’t quite convey. War, loss, empathy, and tragedy are threads in the scripts that hit the heartstrings of many vets. “But we in it shall be remembered,” Shakespeare wrote in Henry V, a play that is also…
You know that feeling when you’re at a concert and you don’t care how sweaty you are because the song they’re playing is so good you can feel it in your bones? Amber Galloway Gallego aims to bring that catharsis to the deaf and hard of hearing. She interprets music for the deaf, but it’s not your standard ASL. She…
In the U.S., sports have become a tremendous part of our national identity and there’s no denying their ability to unite diverse groups of people. So what happens when the players start to speak out on the field? The country listens. A quick recap In 2016, SF 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem in silent protest…
After immigrating to the US a few years ago, Lebanese sisters Manal and Wissam Kahi decided to start a business in NY after their search for a decent hummus ended in defeat. Now, Eat Offbeat has been offering delicious dishes from all over the world since 2016 and employing refugees from places like Nepal, Tibet, Iraq, Syria, and Eritrea. In…
After Hurricane Katrina hit in August of 2005, many were left stranded in their homes and – as was the case for LeShay Brown and her family – on their roofs. Pararescue specialist Sergeant Mike Maroney spotted them waving for help and rescued them in his helicopter. What had been a phenomenally bad day for Maroney became unexpectedly lighter. He suffered…
These 500 women call themselves Kung Fu nuns, because they’re strong as heck and there’s no telling them what they can’t do. These Buddhists cycled more than 2,400 miles from Nepal to Northern India. To put it in perspective – that’s like biking the California coast three times! “People think that because we are nuns, we are supposed to stay…
New Sincerity’s Michael Rolph is one of the hundreds of CEOs — including Meg Whitman of Hewlett-Packard and Marc Benioff of Salesforce — who’ve signed an open letter to Congress, urging that they pass the DREAM Act – a piece of legislation that would give DACA recipients a pathway to permanent residency. Money talks, so seeing those with clout stand up for our DREAMers…
They might not be fancy but Baldwin, Michigan found a way to send every kid in town to college. It’s called The Baldwin Promise. The deal is that, if you graduate, you are guaranteed $5,000 a year for college tuition, for up to 4 years. This isn’t an easy task for any community, and it’s especially tough when 1 in…
