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Monthly Archives: February 2016

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Karma for Cara Microgrants help fund exceptional service projects led by youth 18 and under working to better their communities. Read about our microgrant recipient, Joseph, a 16-year-old who along with three other juniors purchased toys for a local children’s hospital.

1.What inspired you to start Steps for Humanity?

Whenever something unfortunate happened in my community, I would always wish that I could do something to help out the people who had suffered. One day, I had a realization that I could help both my local and global community regardless of my age and time constraints and as a result, I became set on turning my thoughts into actions….

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Karma for Cara Microgrants help fund exceptional service projects led by youth 18 and under working to better their communities. Read about our microgrant recipient Matthew, a 14-year-old who founded New Kicks for Kids in January 2015 to provide new shoes for kids living in homeless shelters.

1. What inspired you to start New Kicks for Kids?

I volunteer regularly with my church chamber orchestra by playing music at nursing homes, hospitals and homeless shelters. Once we were playing at a homeless shelter lunch and I saw several people crying….