5 Years 25 Teens

One Life-Changing Award

2007 Award Recipients: 2008 Award Recipients: 2009 Award Recipients:

Amanda Haworth, La Jolla High School Holocaust Curriculum Single-handedly raised $12,000 to transform her classmates’ attitutes with a now-permanent Holocaust

curriculum featuring a field trip to the LA Museum of Tolerance.

Ronit Abramson, San Diego Arctic Ambassador As an environmentalist and Arctic Ambassador for the San Diego Zoo, Ronit performed scientific research

and advocacy on the effect of climate change on polar bears and the Arctic.

Max Einhorn, La Jolla Disaster Aware Worked with the American Red Cross and his high school to raise money for San Diego’s 2-1-1 service, selling

customized disaster survival kits and educating more than 1600 families about natural disasters.

Allison Hoffman, Los Altos YADA: Youth Alliance for Darfur Action Created a high school coalition that raises money for

humanitarian aid, awareness and advocacy programs about genocide in Darfur, Sudan.

Eric Heimark, Palo Alto Free the Children Founded a youth-directed charity with branches in London and the U.S. to teach youth to become global

citizens and agents of change while helping children in third world countries.

Eric Feldman, Palos Verdes Estates Just One Night Harnessed the talents of his peers to produce Jazz and Classical music

fundraisers to sponsor the education of orphaned children in Kenya, showing that one night of giving can change a child's life.

Justin Sachs, Carlsbad Peak Performance Lifestyles Inspired peers to form a social action group that developed leadership skills through

volunteerism, with monthly activities such as making sandwiches for the homeless and building houses in Mexico.

Shelby Layne, Pacific Palisades Live Buy Give & Jewish World Watch Solar Cookers for Darfur Created jewelry and raised funds to purchase solar-powered stoves for

1,050 families in Darfur refugee camps, keeping women and children from the dangers they faced gathering firewood.

Aaron Feuer, Los Angeles President, California Association of Student Councils Reinvigorated student government as a vehicle for change and leadership

training. Aaron organized the first Los Angeles Youth Summit and coordinated statewide conferences that led to legislative action.

Shira Shane, Encino T.A.G: Teens Against Genocide Inspired a grassroots student movement that deepened awareness of genocide and

funded wells and medical facilities for Sudanese refugees.

Frederick Scarf, Sherman Oaks The Shiri Foundation In the memory of his best friend, who died from bone cancer at 16, Fred began fundraising for research

into a cure, as well as organizing proms for teens with life-threatening diseases.

Jacqueline Rotman, Santa Barbara Everybody Dance Now! Keeping kids out of gangs by engaging them in the creative outlet of dance,

Jackie’s program helped build self-esteem while promoting diversity and community service.

Erich Sorger, Beverly Hills Recycling for the National Council of Jewish Women Collected reusable items on UCLA’s campus, saving them from

the trash and donating them to fund homeless shelters, battered women's facilities and other social justice groups.

Sarah Van Zanten, Palo Alto A Voice Against Teenage Dating Violence Courageously spoke out through the national media after becoming a

victim of dating violence. Sarah worked to educate her peers, who had shunned her when she turned for help, giving hope to millions like her who suffered in silence.

Erin Schrode, Ross Teens Turning Green / Teens for Safe Cosmetics Led a national teen movement inspiring teens to make healthy, eco-conscious

lifestyle choices. She advocated for policy and behavioral change, and investigation of harmful environmental exposures.

2010 Award Recipients:

SPECIAL THANKS TO

HELEN DILLER WHOSE VISION, GENEROSITY,

AND BELIEF IN THE POWER OF TEENS TO CHANGE THE WORLD IS AN INSPIRATION

TO US ALL.

SPECIAL THANKS TO

BARBARA ROSENBERG WHOSE ENERGY, CREATIVITY,

AND PASSION HAS SET AN EXAMPLE OF TRUE

LEADERSHIP.

2011 Award Recipients:

Jason Bade, Foster City Green Youth Alliance Connected students devoted to sustainability, getting solar panels installed for the six schools in his

own high school district.

Gabriel Ferrick, Santa Rosa Envision No Victims: One for All and All for One Raised awareness and over $60,000 in much-needed aid for refugees from

genocide, organizing an annual fundraising walk in his own community.

Megan Kilroy, Santa Monica Team Marine Inspired others through creative activism to adopt a sustainable mindset and behaviors like

recycling, protecting the ocean and our planet.

Liza Gurtin, La Jolla Walk for Water Fundraised to build clean water wells in Nicaragua and Tanzania, playing an instrumental role in the annual walk

and raising over $40,000 with the sponsorship program she initiated.

David Schenirer, Sacramento VIBE Youth Lounge Created a youth-led “urban lounge,” providing resources such

as homework help and social events to help keep teens from turning to drugs and gangs.

Naftali Moed, Pacifica Oceana High School Community Garden Turned an unused gravel lot into a garden, coordinating logistics and raising $10,000 for construction. The

garden has since engaged hundreds of students and volunteers in and out of the classroom.

David Weingarten, Woodland Hills USY-Abayudaya Partnership Worked to revive the Abayudaya Jewish tribe of Uganda’s youth

movement and create a Jewish stronghold in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Casey Robbins, Carmichael Textbooks for Liberia Organized the collection, shipping logistics, and fundraising to send thousands of textbooks to war-torn

Liberia, giving youth the tools for better education.

Kyle Weiss, Danville FundaField Raised over $100,000 to build soccer fields in Africa and to partner with HIV/AIDS awareness

programs, schools and clean drinking water projects.

Daniel Sobajian, Los Angeles

StudentsDo.org Coordinated school and art supply drives across Los Angeles, making education more accessible for 1,000 of

his peers living at or below the poverty level.