These are some examples of recent winners:
(Note: For information on other winners, please visit our individual show archives.)
Aired the week of 9/06/10 #1036
Will Raap, Intervale Center:
In 1983, Will first founded Gardener's Supply company, that is now an award winning, employee-owned company offering innovative gardening products through socially responsible business practices. Will then founded the nonprofit Intervale Center in Vermont. Intervale is now the largest community organic farming and local food system catalyst organization in the US. In 1986, he spearheaded a major grassroots clean-up of what's known as 'The Intervale', a several hundred acre floodplain and combination of farmland, forest and wetlands that had been under cultivation for at least 700 years, starting with native populations. During the mid-1900s it became a dumping ground for tires, old cars and trash. By the early 1980's the Intervale was a dangerous, polluted and unwelcoming place in Vermont. The parcel was restored to its agricultural roots and today is the Intervale Center, a unique community model and resource built around healthy, locally grown food, systems for recycling organic waste, and a financially viable and environmentally sound agricultural economy.
Website: http://http://www.intervale.org/
Website: http://http://www.gardeners.com/
Email: Willr@gardeners.com
Address: 180 Intervale Road, Burlington, Vermont 05401
Phone: 802.660.0440
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Aired the week of 9/01/10 #1035
Lorraine Kerwood, NextStep Recycling:
Lorraine founded this nonprofit to repair, reuse and recycle computers and other electronic gear, and to provide job training to the unemployed or underemployed in the process. Volunteers repair donated computers which are then gifted to low income and disadvantaged people in their community, and beyond. They also sell refurbished computers to the public via a re-use store, and they responsibly recycle computers and other electronic waste which cannot be repurposed. They have kept over 2 million pounds of e-waste from landfills, and donated over 30,000 computers to folks in need all over the world.
Website: http://http://www.nextsteprecycling.org/
Email: annodan@aol.com
Address: 2101 W. 10th, Eugene, OR 97402
Phone: 541-686-2366
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Aired the week of 8/25/10 #1034
Annie Oatman Gardner, Trails, Open Space & Parks (TOPS) Tax Initiative:
Annie led a multi-year successful grassroots, citizen-driven effort to get a sales tax increase initiative on a Colorado Springs city ballot. In 1997, voters approved a sales tax hike of 1/10 of a cent (a penny per $10 purchase) to fund the purchase and preservation of open space and trails in their rapidly growing community. The tax supports the city’s Trails, Open Space, and Parks program (TOPS). It has generated over $50 million to purchase and preserve over 5,000 acres open space, has funded park projects and urban trail projects as well.
Website: http://www.springsgov.com/SectionIndex.asp?SectionID=45/
Email: annodan@aol.com
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Aired the week of 8/18/10 #1033
Diane Trull, Dalhart Animal Wellness Group & Sanctuary (DAWGS) in Texas: Diane is a schoolteacher who along with her fourth grade class and her husband Mark, launched a no-kill dog rescue and sanctuary in her small town of Dalhart, Texas in 2003. The organization is all-volunteer, and heavily involves the continuing support of students. Since their start in 2003, they, with the help of over 300 kids, have saved the lives of over 4,000 dogs and cats since beginning in 2003. Their shelter is called DAWGS in Texas, short for the Dalhart Animal Wellness Group & Sanctuary.
Website: www.dawgsntexas.com/
Email: dawgsntexas@yahoo.com
Address: D.A.W.G.S., PO Box #911, Dalhart, TX 79022
Phone: 806-244-3216
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Aired the week of 8/11/10 #1032
Sabra Wood, Sample Soap: Sabra was an executive who traveled extensively for business, and stayed in a lot of hotels along the way. She started this all-volunteer nonprofit in 1990 which engages her fellow business travelers and others to collect and distribute personal care items, such as hotel toiletries and more, to the neediest citizens. They distribute through agencies who serve community shelters, migrant workers, chronically ill, the homeless and crime victims, freeing up agency program dollars in the process. Since starting, they have collected over 50,000 pounds of needed items from shampoo and soap to toothbrushes, sewing kits and even diapers. In addition, other communities around the country have replicated this project in their own communities, reaching many more in need.
Website: www.samplesoap.org
Email: ayodele.ojumu@gmail.com
Address: P.O. Box 10565, Rochester, NY 14610
Phone: 585-234-1729
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Aired the week of 8/4/10 #1031
Tracy Noel, Youth Garden Project: Tracy co-founded this project in 1998. The Youth Garden Project (now part of the Starker Arts Garden for Education (SAGE)) provides summer service programs for youths, including many at-risk kids, to learn and practice sustainable agriculture. The organic produce grown in the 1-acre garden is delivered by bicycle to Corvallis, Oregon food banks and soup kitchens. The program also educates and informs all residents about the benefits to the community of producing and purchasing local and sustainably. Since their start, over 2,400 youth have participated, and over 15 tons of healthy organic produce has been provided to food aid organizations in their community.
Website: www.corvallisenvironmentalcenter.org
Email: info@corvallisenvironmentalcenter.org
Tracy: farm4thefuture@hotmail.com
Address: Corvallis Environmental Center, P.O. Box 2189, Corvallis, OR 97339
Phone: 541-753-9211
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Aired the week of 7/21/10 #1029
Jim Evanoff, Greening of Yellowstone: Jim is the Environmental Manager, a Park Ranger, and the driving force behind the effort to 'green' Yellowstone, the world's first national park. Jim and his team educate millions of park visitors each year with information about how they can participate through recycling, and they have implemented bold and creative solutions to improve the park�s long term environmental sustainability. Examples include a 100% biodiesel powered fleet, glass and tire recycling, composting, replacing toxic janitorial products, installing solar arrays and compact fluorescent bulbs, and even inventing a new system to recycle green propane cylinders. The 'greening' effort has made Yellowstone the sustainable flagship for the national park service, and surrounding communities are engaged with these efforts as well.
Website: www.nps.gov
Email: jim_evanoff@nps.gov
Address: PO Box 168, Yellowstone NP, WY 82190-0168
Phone: 307-344-7381
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Aired the week of 7/14/10 #1028
Jon Bowermaster: Jon is an award-winning writer, filmmaker and adventurer who for the last 20 years has been using the media -- books, films, magazine stories and now the internet -- to bring the world along as he explores the remote corners of the world. He is an eyewitness reporter who is 'embedded' on the frontline of the climate change battle. He has reached and educated millions. The goal of each of his expeditions is both adventure and education through exploration of local cultures, histories, environmental issues and the future of these varied regions and our world.
Website: www.jonbowermaster.com
Email: jonbowermaster@yahoo.com
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Aired the week of 7/7/10 #1027
Craig Secher, Realities For Children: Craig founded Realities For Children and the nonprofit Realities For Children Charities as a hybrid partnership that directly connects community members, business leaders and human services to provide for the unmet needs of abused and neglected children in Larimer County. They also educate the community as to the often silent issue of abuse through over 120 awareness and/or fundraising events each year. Over the past 14 years they have helped over 20,000 children live better lives.
Website: www.realitiesforchildren.com
Email: craig@realitiesforchildren.com
Address: 1610 South College Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80525
Phone: 970-484-9090
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Aired the week of 6/30/10 #1026
Anne Frahn, Teachers for a Better Belize: Anne and her sister Kathie Dolan began this grassroots, all-volunteer nonprofit to improve schools and education in the remote Toledo District of Belize. They�ve partnered with educators from North America and Belize to equip teachers in Belize with training, supplies, and facilities they need to help their students achieve educational success. Since 1997, over 750 teachers have been trained positively impacting the lives of over 7,000 students who are demonstrating academic improvement and are staying in school in greater numbers. They have also donated over $200,000 in books and supplies, and set up libraries in over 50 schools, and their program is being replicated in other districts.
Website: www.tfabb.org
Email: annefrahn@gmail.com
Address: c/o Kathie Dolan, 13606 Peacock Farms Rd., St. Louis, MO 63131-1232
Phone: 650-462-9406 (Anne)
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Aired the week of 6/23/10 #1025
Margaret Jankowski, The Sewing Machine Project: Margaret has had a real passion for sewing ever since childhood. Using her experience with this craft, she founded the nonprofit Sewing Machine Project to collect and donate sewing machines to folks impacted by the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. Margaret has focused her efforts on the New Orleans area, and has personally made several trips from her home in Wisconsin to deliver nearly 500 machines she�d collected. And the machines have a ripple effect--they are donated to families, schools and community centers, and for vocational training and classes, thus impacting thousands of people through their use.
Website: thesewingmachineproject.org
Email: margaret@thesewingmachineproject.org
Address: P.O. Box 6245, Monona, WI 53716
Phone: 608-225-2315
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