Hal Colston's lifelong interests of social justice and entrepreneurship have been blended together in his career path as a Program Director for Lutheran Social Services of New England (LSS). Hal is the founding director of LSS subsidiary Good News Garage, an organization that addresses the need of transportation equity for people in poverty. Good News Garage has become a national model with locations..[+]

Earlier this year, Marquell Cooper, an eighth-grade student at Washington Jesuit Academy in Washington, D.C., was named the 2007-2008 Bank of America Young Hero of the Year for City Year. He was selected as the winner out of more than 15 Young Hero submissions from across the country, and was publicly honored with the Young Hero of the Year award at City Year's national conference in Boston this summer.As..[+]