Giraffe Heroes Database
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Steve Hoffman of Salt Lake City UT gave up the security of his job as a US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist in 1987 to found HawkWatch International. Hawkins spent all his retirement money, took on a load of personal debt, and for three years worked 80 hours a week without pay to do the work the USFWS never seemed to get to: intense research on raptors. HawkWatch is now operating in seven states and providing vital research that may save the hawks of the West.
Home when commended: North America, US, Utah Home now: North America, US, Pennsylvania Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Matthew Hoh, diplomat, strategist, combat Marine vet, gave up a promising career in diplomacy when he resigned from the US Foreign Service to protest the cost in lives and dollars of “the US involvement in a 35-year-old civil war” in Afghanistan.
Home when commended: North America, US, Washington DC Home now: North America, US, Washington DC Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Newspaper owner/editor Ron Holdracker has investigated and reported on convicted sex offenders in Macedon NY and environs, despite threats to his safety and to his livelihood.
Home when commended: North America, US, New York Home now: North America, US, New York Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Laughter can indeed be the best medicine, and John Holland-McCowan is an expert provider of that form of care. At age 7, Holland-McCowan started the nonprofit Kids Cheering Kids, which brings kids in his community to play with abused, homeless or sick kids in local shelters and hospitals.
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Andrew Holleman of Chelmford MA successfully researched and campaigned against a condo project proposed for a wetland near his home. At the age of 12, Andrew mobilized town residents to save the wetland, and helped the developer find a better site.
Home when commended: North America, US, Massachusetts Home now: North America, US, Massachusetts Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Carolyn Holmberg of Boyd County NE gave up a peaceful farming life, incurred threats and abuse, and endured arrest to fight federal, state, and local authorities planning to create a nuclear waste dump in her county. She organized her neighbors in a vigorous grassroots campaign called the Save Boyd County Association.
Home when commended: North America, US, Nebraska Home now: North America, US, Nebraska Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Cheryl Honey founded and runs the Family Support Network in Bothell WA to help make up for the shortcomings of welfare. Over 150 Network member-families assist each other in every way they can, giving as well as receiving and supplying the personal caring that so often is missing from official assistance.
Home when commended: North America, US, Washington Home now: North America, US, Washington Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Shelley Honingbaum of Everett WA was one of a group of high school students who wrote and put on a play in response to the deaths of two popular classmates. They were met with resistance from their teacher, the administration, and their friends, but these teens persisted. The play was a critical success—but more important to these young performers—the play helped their peers and the entire community deal with their shock and grief. (See also Grant Pavolka, Bridgette MacAfee, Kristin Kusnic, Julia Endicott, Cathleen Bakker and Billy Giese.)
Home when commended: North America, US, Washington Home now: North America, US, Washington Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Reverend Glenda Hope of San Francisco CA, a diminutive Presbyterian minister, has chosen to serve on some of her city’s meanest streets. For decades she has taken the lead in an ecumenical ministry that cares for and champions residents of the Tenderloin. Her ministry provides services for the homeless, for seniors and shut-ins, teaches English as a second language, assists with citizenship applications, and campaigns to get cheap fortified wines off local grocery shelves.
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Special Education teacher Sheila Hopper of Topanga CA was moved to buck the system when a child she recommended for federally funded extra help was rejected for that help by the LA school district. She was soon championing other similarly rejected students, despite repeated warnings to back off as she pushed for compliance with federal mandates. The 30-year veteran teacher was even accused of child abuse by her principal, a charge called "incredible" by the appointed arbitrator.
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Ken Horne of Big Island VA and his partner, Ray Buchanan, created the Potato Project, which moves healthy but imperfect potatoes to hungry people. The Project has provided over 100 million pounds of potatoes to disaster victims and the poor in 47 states.
Home when commended: North America, US, Virginia Home now: North America, US, Virginia Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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For sixty years Miles Horton devoted himself to training community organizers. He facilitated workshops at the Highlander Folk School in New Market TN, training thousands of grassroots leaders in the labor, civil rights, antipoverty, and environmental movements.
Home when commended: North America, US, Tennesse Home now: North America, US, Tennesse Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Giraffe work location(s): North America, US, North Carolina Home when commended: North America, US, North Carolina Home now: North America, US, North Carolina Gender: G (group) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Lisa Marie Hutchinson of Redding CA, the severely burned victim of a drunk driver, moved past her own pain to create the Northern California Burn Foundation, which runs a summer camp for burned children and provides training for counselors and teachers who work with burn victims.
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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