Tommy Hilfiger has a new passion: combating global poverty.
Mark Plotkin relies on new technology and ancient medicine to save the Amazon.
Prosper Ndabishuriye works to rebuild war-torn Burundi house by house.
Howard Schiffer helps make sure children around the world take their vitamins.
Bandleader Yoshio Toyama owes his career in jazz to the city of New Orleans. With the Wonderful World Jazz Foundation, he says thank you in a language everyone understands: music.
Veronique Matthews enlists miniature horses in an effort to alleviate chronic pain.
Anthony Martin puts kids on the fast track at his Urban Youth Racing School.
Shaun Duvall forges connections between Midwestern farmers and their Mexican employees.
Twenty-seven-year-old Jon Azrielant plans to save the world by circling it in an electric car.
In between soccer practice, swim meets and dance class, RandomKid founder Talia Leman helps young people around the world organize their own philanthropic efforts.
A Chicago sports photographer and his wife have a novel hobby: educating Cambodian children and lifting them out of poverty.
A Massachusetts mom turns a hobby into a national charity that offers hope and support, one loaf at a time.
Lauren Bush’s FEED bags are right on trend-and help kids, to boot.
Karl Weyrauch’s Coffee Rwanda is helping the war-torn African nation heal, one cup at a time.
Eleven-year-old New Yorker Akash Mehta raises money for his peers around the globe.
A French aristocrat lovingly restores a Paris curiosity shop.
A London grocer unwraps the secret to eco-shopping.
Blake Mycoskie saves the world, step by step.
American-born chef Daniel Rose’s unique approach—using seasonal produce and cooking for small groups—has revitalized the city’s dining scene and brought new meaning to springtime in Paris. By Meg Zimbeck / Photograph By Kal Jünemann