Making a Difference

Founded the organization “TeamSmile”, they provide free oral health education, screening and treatment for children who might not otherwise receive it.

 

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Betty Chinn is a woman who exemplifies how one person can touch the lives of hundreds of people whom the rest of the world has forgotten. Her purpose is sizmple: to show the homeless love, comfort and basic humanity. Betty drives through Los Angeles everyday morning and night and provides food and comfort for hundreds of the homeless.

 

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Founder of the “Roots and Shoots” organization, she is a world leader and new voice in redefining the relationship between humans and animals.

 

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As founder of “National Scoliosis Foundation”, she helped establish mandatory screening of school children in 22 states and has educated tens of thousands of families who have a child facing the complex issues of this spinal deformity.

 

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Dave is known as “The Wheelchair Recycler”. He was inspired by his own personal tragedy that left him paralyzed, to collect; refurbish and re-issue used power wheelchairs at little or no expense to the new user, thus making this essential equipment available to some many that would never have the opportunity otherwise.

 

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Establishing the “Newman’s Own” Foundation, Paul Newman built a retail product line that donates 100% of the profit to those in need. To date, $300 million has been raised for thousands of charities around the world.

 

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Founded “School on Wheels”, a one-on-one mobile tutoring program that has reached hundreds and hundreds of homeless children over the years.

 

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As founder of “YouthBuild USA”, she developed a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. Since 1994, 92,000 YouthBuild students have built 19,000 units of affordable, increasingly green housing.

 

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Artist Fay Chandler’s generosity is based on the belief that everyone should have art in their lives. She founded the Art Connection as a way to get work by donor artists and collectors onto the walls of community service organizations. Fay sold or donated 400 pieces with all the money raised given to non-profit organizations. The Art Connection has donated 5000 works of art to 300 non-profits.

 

For the Art Connection website, please click here.