What motivates me at this point in my career is the idea of continuing to give back. Without giving back, how can you go on?
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www.emergeglobal.org
Emerge began when MIT undergrad Alia Whitney- Johnson encountered a group of teenage mothers (age 10-18) who were the survivors of rape and incest while conducting tsunami relief work in Sri Lanka in 2005.
A jewelry maker since the age of 7, Ali decided to host a jewelry workshop to get to know the girls better. Jewelry became a tool for transformation: a way to uplift their spirits and to help them overcome the economic and emotional obstacles they faced. Emerge was born as a way to sustain their work, connecting them to supplies and training, a global market, and a global community of support. Emerge jewelry sales have been widely successful, selling out all merchandise every time.
Emerge is launching its next project: a community with homes, a school, and a women’s cooperative for sexually abused teenage mothers in Sri Lanka that will promote leadership, community, and livelihood.
www.childrenshealthfund.org
One of many charitable organizations close to his heart, singer/songwriter Paul Simon, co-founded The Children’s Health Fund in 1987 to provide health care to homeless and medically underserved children. Today, CHF provides care through 21 innovative pediatric care programs that offer a medical home to children in poor rural and urban communities across the country.
www.nyrp.org
Bette Midler founded the nonprofit New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in 1995 in the belief that clean, green neighborhoods are fundamental to the quality of life, and that every community in New York City deserves an oasis of natural beauty. Seeing many parks and open spaces in dire need of cleanup and restoration, Ms. Midler created NYRP to be the “conservancy of forgotten places,” particularly in New York City’s underserved communities. To achieve this vision, NYRP partners with individuals, community-based groups, and public agencies to reclaim, restore, and develop under-resourced parks, community gardens, and other open spaces in New York City.
www.childrenhelpingchildren.net
Jourdon Urbach is a teenage concert violinist who founded Children Helping Children, a musical charity foundation which fundraises nationally for pediatric divisions of hospitals and medical charity organizations. CHC has raised over 1.3 million dollars since its inception. Proceeds from Jourdan’s Carnegie Hall Debut went to benefit The National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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