RECENT WINNERS
Andreas Karalas – RE-volv
re-volv.org/ | San Francisco, CA
RE-volv believes that everyone should have the ability to support and spread clean energy. So they created a new way for people to take action. It’s a pretty simple idea. They crowdsource funding to put solar panels on community-serving nonprofit organizations.
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Dr. William Brown – One World Medical Relief
oneworldmedicalrelief.org/ | Denver, CO
Tanzania is a country where children with disabilities are hidden away from society. A cleft lip, for example, is a birth defect and is something that’s easy to treat. The goal of the OWMR team is to treat things like this and other defects. It’s rewarding to all those involved to be able to get these children into society and it helps them bond more with their parents. The OWMR medical team travel to Tanzania at least twice a year to not only complete hundreds of surgeries a year, but to also work with the native surgeons to get them up-to-speed and into the 21st Century.
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Maria Rose Belding – MEANS
meansdatabase.com | Washington DC
MEANS was started with the belief it should be easy for those with excess food to share it with those in need. It didn’t take long to find people who agreed – everyone from Starbucks to The Washington Post. MEANS is now in 48 states and counting, helping divert food from the trash to local emergency feeding services with the ease and speed of the internet.
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