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Founded by Martin Casado and Mariel Triggs, Oakland-based MuralNet has brought reliable high-speed internet to more than a third of tribal lands nationwide with little to no connectivity as well as successfully lobbied the FCC to allow tribes to obtain their own broadband licenses.

Co-founded by Katie Nzekwu, Found Village was built on Katie’s personal journey of living in a juvenile detention center at age fifteen and later working as a social worker to teens in crisis.

Not long after sustaining a neck injury as a registered nurse, Toni Short became homeless. She pulled into the Rehoboth Walmart parking lot where she lived for two years.

When Miamie Sleep realized there were over 180 homeless teens ages of 16 to 19 in Natrona County, she had to act. Miamie spent nights on the streets in Casper talking to them to find how to help.

Much like how Rusty Boruff turned his life around after finding himself addicted, homeless, and facing incarceration, his nonprofit One Eighty helps people turn their lives around. Starting with just a $500 trailer for a couple of guys to live in, today One Eighty focuses on three pillars.