A NOTE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HILLARY SCHAFER We did it! Our 43rd Annual National Ceremony in Washington, DC was a huge success. The overall event spanned three days and included a summit for our Champion companies, a youth empowerment event, a GlobeChangers bootcamp, a service project that engaged all of our constituents, and the […]
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Today’s post comes from Corinne Hindes, the co-founder of Warm Winters. Corinne is a JAF GlobeChanger & a member of the Think Big Team. Can an ordinary teen change everything with a simple idea? Growing up, the world seemed impossibly large and complicated to me; there were so many puzzle pieces to put together, and the […]
Since I was little, I’ve been a sucker for cheesy movies. Make some popcorn and put on a sappy chick flick about love and adventure and I’m all yours. Whenever I would watch these movies when I was younger, where the main character goes through struggles but finds their way, I would think about what […]
LEAD360 is the platform that powers youth service ideas: to realize their vision, act as the megaphone for their voices, and empower them and the country to ACT with MAXIMUM IMPACT. Happy New Year! We’re so excited to launch 2015’s LEAD360 Challenge. In our 5th year of LEAD360, we’re amplifying the challenge even further. This […]
There are people – there human beings out on the streets of cities that are living and dying and it doesn’t need to be that way. The Jefferson Awards highlighting the work that we do enabled us to have the credibility within the medical community, it inspired so many of the volunteers early on to […]
I’ve been here at the Jefferson Awards for 6 weeks now. The time has flown! The one thing that constantly strikes me and quite often moves me to tears (in the best way!) is the sheer number of stories – the incredible moving public service feats that people all over the country are accomplishing. The […]