Marc Gold is a global leader and advocate for helping those how are in need regarding of the health or resource barrier. He teaches and connects people from all over the world to combat different Social Determinants of Health and do this through donations!

Learn more about this organization, please visit: https://www.100friends.org/!

One Tree Planted have been dedicated to making it easier for both individuals and businesses to give back to the environment, create a healthier climate, protect biodiversity, and help reforestation efforts.

With corporations, organizations, and communities support, One Tree Planted aid in environmental conservation and restoration across the globe!

Meet Nilanjana Saha, their amazing Urban Forestry Project Manager organizing their urban projects across the globe!

Visit them @ https://onetreeplanted.org/! 

One Tree Planted have been dedicated to making it easier for both individuals and businesses to give back to the environment, create a healthier climate, protect biodiversity, and help reforestation efforts.

With corporations, organizations, and communities support, One Tree Planted aid in environmental conservation and restoration across the globe!

Meet KM Reyes, their fantastic APAC Project Manager who coordinates our large-scale reforestation projects like the Hilltribes project!

Visit them @ https://onetreeplanted.org/! 

Katia Powell-Laurent is a doula, black maternal health advocate and coach. She empowers Women of Color to Eat Healthy without Sacrificing their Cultural Heritage through her three foundational pillars for transformative change: culture, community and connection.

Learn more about Black Girls Nutrition and Katia's mission to improve the health and well-being of WOC.

Visit her @ https://www.blackgirlsnutrition.com/!

Helping Hand Home for Children's mission is to provide a nurturing and therapeutic home for children and to restore each child to a healthy family setting.

They believe that each child deserves a loving and permanent home.

Their goal is to protect and restore the lives of victimized children so those without hope can reclaim their futures.

HHHC enriches, educates, and empowers through loving care, professional treatment, and innovative services that heal.

Helping Hand Home for Children is committed to best practices, performance and quality improvement, evidenced-based services, and stakeholder involvement.

Being nationally accredited through the Council on Accreditation demonstrates our commitment to the highest possible standards amongst our peers in child welfare.

We are proud to be a part of this community of excellence.

Visit them @ https://helpinghandhome.org!

Dr. Terrance Ruth has been an advocate for public education, serving as a teacher, principal, and the parent of a son who attends public schools in Wake County.
As a former Administrator for Wake County Public Schools who now serves as an Education Consultant to numerous nonprofits. Dr. Ruth sits on several statewide boards.
Dr. Ruth has led national, state, and local social justice organizations with a reputation for being an implementation expert. He served as the NC NAACP Executive Director under Dr. Barber and Dr. Spearman and has served as National Director of Programming for the Repairers of the Breach.
Recently he partnered with United Way of the Triangle to launch a community investment fund for local community organizers.
Dr. Ruth leads a coalition of leaders to engage in local solutions through impact investing, design thinking, and creative collaborations. Right now, he is facilitating a process to increase the use of faith-based assets in improving the affordable housing stock.
He is also working with United Way of the Triangle to offer a human-centered design lens to the philanthropic network in the Triangle.

Visit www.truth4raleigh.com to learn more about Dr. Ruth!

Steve Roese is an out of the box thinker who wants to change the world by connecting dots, and people, to make

things happen that others do not expect to succeed. He has travelled much of the world, is burdened for and

amazed by the people he knows there.

Impatient with the status quo, his focus is on both the haves and have-nots of society and whose cultural ethos is to do

whatever it takes to collide the lives of both. Steve founded Water is Basic. Water is Basic finds local solutions to

local water problems.

Water is Basic mission is to innovate sustainable, women led, local solutions to basic water problems.

Visit them @ https://www.waterisbasic.org/!

Angie Wehrer is the Executive Director of The Battered Women's Foundation Mary Lou's Place. Before the organization's Founder, Mary Lou, passed away, Angie assumed her role, transitioning from a board member to acting director.  Having had many issues with different types of domestic violence over the years, Angie knew more than most people about this issue and how life-altering and difficult it can be to break the cycle of abuse. She takes pride in her and her staff's work for their clients and the children they help. She wants everyone to know if you hear something, see something, know something, then say something because it takes a village to break the stigma of domestic violence, get the knowledge and word out there, to break the cycle of domestic violence.

The Battered Women's Foundation Mary Lou's Place is "Changing our World ONE Life at a Time." They do this by, first and foremost, operating their Domestic Violence Survivor Program, which helps battered partners, women, and children to break the cycle of abuse by becoming self-sufficient. Their Domestic Violence Survival Program is a four-year long-term care program in which they provide many different resources, including but not limited to physical, mental, spiritual, educational, and at times financial assistance. 

They give their clients the skills and strength to live a safe and comfortable life and have long-term success. With our times' ever-changing and evolving resources, they have also expanded to provide much-needed help and services to Families in Need, Families in Crisis, and Crisis Clients. These programs offer necessary daily living items, such as clothing, household items, cleaning products, hygiene items, and a food pantry. 

Mary Lou's Place philosophy is based on this understanding and designed to complement the work of other organizations by providing long-term client services and resources to these partners, women, and children that are attempting to break the cycle of abuse, despair, and hopelessness, to create the life they have always dreamt about and deserve. Abuse is not the victim's/survivor's fault. 

Visit them @ www.marylousplace.org/

Toby Owen has led Presbyterian Night Shelter as Chief Executive Officer since 2009, with over 20 years of experience in the social services sector.

Toby has overseen multiple expansions of the shelter’s housing programs, facilities, and services.

Under his leadership, Presbyterian Night Shelter opened the Morris Foundation Family Services Center, True Worth Place resource facility and

launched a social enterprise and employment training program, UpSpire.

Toby has also overseen renovations to the Lowdon-Schutts Women’s Center and the Karl Travis Men’s Center.

Toby continues to lead Presbyterian Night Shelter with a strong community presence and passion for the organization’s mission of ending homelessness in Tarrant County.

Founded in 1984, Presbyterian Night Shelter serves 90% of Fort Worth and Tarrant County’s homeless population. It is the largest provider of services for its county’s homeless neighbors, sheltering over 700 guests each night.

As a low-barrier shelter, they welcome anyone without a home and help them find one.

They focus their efforts on three equally important things:

Through their various programs and by providing access to critical support services and resources, their goal is to place their

guests in a position to successfully transition to a safe, stable, and independent lifestyle.

In 2022, they helped over 1,602 people move out of homelessness including 565 children.

 Visit them @ https://www.journeyhome.org/!

Katrina Harris, The Director of Operations of Viola’s House, used her cross-functional abilities while leading. She brings expertise in planning, clinical quality, efficiency, and operational knowledge to her team. She is armed with articulate written and verbal communication, bilingual in English and Spanish. She is a great translator for innovative solutions and has managed engagements for planning and programming throughout the Dallas Area.  

Katrina is known for being a multifaceted leader when assigned to managing various tasks in her areas of expertise in operations, training, and coaching. She enjoys working with the client planning team to discover solutions and explore options to provide the optimum environment for our residents, families, and staff.  Katrina discovered her passion for working with women in Prison, working with Special Olympics and Teenage Moms. She understands life’s challenges being a teen bride at 15, dropping out of school at 15, and being a single mother of 4 with one having Cerebral Palsy.   Her passion for each can be traced back throughout her life, as she has experienced each in her lifetime.

Viola’s House’s mission is to provide maternity housing and support services to mothers facing unplanned pregnancies. Formed in 2008 as a “Maternity House” to provide temporary housing and support services to expectant teenage mothers aged 12-21 in the Dallas area. Viola’s House utilizes a holistic approach in order to help expectant teen mothers make enduring, positive changes in their lives. The Program provides basic life necessities of housing, food, clothing, life skills, education, and training in financial literacy, parenting, and counseling.

Visit them @ https://www.violashouse.org/