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Since winning our LEAD360 Ideas Contest in last year, Payton & Reagan set out to impact thousands of youth across the country one bucket at a time. We caught up with Payton & Reagan to see how they’re doing after a year of activation!

Our Sisters’ School is a small independent school in New Bedford, Massachusetts that values Excellence, Citizenship, Community, and Leadership. Their three-part SIA Empowerment Project focused on young people, providing access to resources, and development of self and community.

Ben Watford has been fighting racial injustices throughout his life by pushing societal boundaries and working to right wrongs along his path. A graduate of Howard University in 1957, he won the prestigious National Science Foundation scholarship to attend Tuskegee University.

It was during the 1988 Republican National Convention in George H.W. Bush’s acceptance speech for the Presidential Nomination that he first referred to a “thousand points of light”. His language spoke to "a brilliant diversity