Community Difference Makers

Learn more about the Bankers Trust Employee Volunteer Award winners. Hear about what drives our top volunteers, what causes they are most passionate about and how they serve our community. 

Learn more about Healthy Birth Day and how you can support their mission from Emily Price, Chief Executive Officer of Healthy Birth Day, and host Emily Abbas. 

Learn more about Mainframe Studios’ journey and how you can support local artists from Julia Franklin, Executive Director of Mainframe Studios, and host Emily Abbas. 

Learn more about ICON Water Trails’ mission and their top priorities in 2025 from Stephanie Oppel, Executive Director of ICON Water Trails, and host Emily Abbas. 

Learn more on the state of fundraising for Central Iowa nonprofits from Nikki Syverson, Principal of Isaacson-Syverson Consulting, and host Emily Abbas. 

Learn more about the important work Above + Beyond Cancer is doing to doing to elevate the mind, body, and spirit of patients, survivors, and caregivers throughout the cancer journey from Executive Director Alissa McKinney, Above + Beyond Cancer board member and Senior Private Banking Officer Becky Moomey, and host Emily Abbas.

Learn more about how the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden works to explore, explain and celebrate the world of plants with our community from CEO Kim Perez and host Emily Abbas.

Learn more about how the Principal Charity Classic not only brings world class professional golf to Des Moines but how it also raises millions of dollars for Iowa’s children’s charities from Alex McCarty, Tournament Director, and host Emily Abbas. 

Learn more about the important work WesleyLife is doing to support the independence, health and well-being of older adults wherever they call home from Sophia Ahmad, Vice President of Philanthropy of the WesleyLife Foundation and host Emily Abbas.

Learn more about the important work Variety – the Children’s Charity of Iowa is doing to improve the lives of children who are at-risk, underprivileged, critically ill or living with special needs from Executive Director Sheri McMichael, Polo on the Green committee member and Bankers Trust’s General Counsel and Senior Risk Officer Emily Stork, and host Emily Abbas.