Jobs
Learn how ordinary individuals utilized skills from their work experience to help change the world.
Finance
Read how Elizabeth Ortiz brought her skill and experience in for-profit finance to help turn around the Nonprofit Finance Fund.
Web Development
Ben Berkowitz had a novel idea: a website that would act as a public 3-1-1 telephone line, allowing citizens to report local public works problems that require city attention.
Engineer
Engineers can take many forms, but these engineers are part of Chris Swan's vision of what he calls "citizen engineers."
Student
Rebecca Onie saw a need and filled it. Inspired by Dr. Barry Zuckerman, chairman of the pediatric department at Boston City Hospital, Rebecca created a partnership between students and hospitals that addresses the correlation between poverty and poor
Promoter
In 2004, Scott left the streets of New York City, where he worked for several years as an event promoter, for the shores of West Africa.
Banker
Chris Schmidt remembered how difficult it was as a middle school student to connect the dots between school and the real world. So, Chris became a Citizen Teacher with the Citizen Schools program.

