Although he's only eight years old, Johnny Karlinchak knows what it means to give back to his community. In late June, a deadly storm hit his hom...

What if every crap you took could make a difference? It's a question that social entrepreneur Simon Griffiths asked the world to ponder as he took a b...

When a bully bothered fifth-grader Aria Novak, she decided that instead of fighting back, she would be kind. "I was on the bus one day and this gi...

A career in the cutthroat world of footwear design can be a certifiable challenge for young entrepreneurs. But when they established the California-ba...

When Esta Soler formed what would become the San Francisco-based Futures Without Violence 30 years ago, no one would return her calls. "It was pret...

It started out simply enough. As classmates at Harvard, Jessica Matthews and Julia Silverman took a class on engineering for non-engineering stude...

When Erik Kimel launched Peer2Peer Tutors, at the age of 16, his idea was simple: students can help other students succeed academically. "We have a...

Bobby Watts says the homeless have enough to think about without worrying about their health. "They have other pressing needs," said Watts, the exe...

You'd think an M.D./Ph.D. student at competitive medical schools would have his hands full with school, but Ian Wong isn't waiting until he's practici...

Anyone remotely familiar with NASCAR knows that advertisements and sponsorships are a large part of the sport. From the cars to the drivers' uniforms,...

If typical internship activities include filing and making coffee, Stephanie Krivitzky's 10 weeks with the BBH Barn were anything but orthodox. Th...

Many people hate going to the dentist, but there's one practitioner in Orlando, Fla., that everyone is happy to see. For 20 years, Dr. Thomas J. Dorse...

Roger Shiffman has been bringing children joy for decades. The toy guru, who was behind the marketing of the massively successful Furby, is in the ...

Katherine Lucey spent 20 years as an investment banker focused in the energy sector. Now, she endeavors to bring clean energy to rural east Africa and...

He may be an army veteran with three tours of duty and seven years of active service duty in Iraq and Afghanistan to his credit, but Patrick J. Nelson...

When An Phong Vo was nine years old, her family fled Vietnam and was resettled in Texas. The year was 1992. Nineteen years later, she's teaching Vietn...

Dr. Dick Traum has competed in multiple marathons, run with former President Bill Clinton and inspired thousands to lead more active lifestyles -- and...

It's not uncommon to find scores of Orange County children spending their evenings and weekend mornings playing soccer, baseball or basketball on cour...

Cupcakes and gang violence aren't normally connected, but one Bay Area 26-year-old is taking a passion for well-crafted confections and a desire to pr...

Evan Moss's story is one of those inspirational stories that makes one stop what he or she is doing and marvel at the strength of will some children d...

It turns out star chefs like Alice Waters (Chez Panisse, Berkeley) and Ferran Adria (El Bulli, Costa Brava) have more in common than dining rooms peop...

Yoni Landau says it's time to transform our relationship with food, and with each other. As a founder and director of the Cooperative Food Empower...