Our service men and women risk life and limb for our country, and sadly many return home with serious combat injuries ranging from lost arms and legs to traumatic brain injuries and PTSD. Rehabbing from such wounds not only takes physical dedication, but also mental determination. It is a lifelong process of perseverance and learning, not unlike one of the most invigorating and simultaneously frustrating of all human diversions: the game of golf. Founded in 2008 by local golf enthusiast Tony...

Every Saturday, dozens of unhoused San Diegans line up outside the Small Potatoes Foundation ’s pop-up in Pacific Beach for a home-cooked meal and a brief reprieve after a week of hardship. The menu includes Waldorf chicken salad sandwiches with fresh herbs, freshly baked muffins, fruit, and coffee—organic when possible, and all made with love. The weekly brunch has grown over the last year and a half into a mission of hope, connection, and nourishment.   That mission is deeply personal for...

In 2016, a group of female surfers in Oahu came together with a shared belief: When women come together to support and uplift one another, they can change the world. The surfing sisterhood founded the Changing Tides Foundation , initially to provide aid in disaster-stricken coastal communities in Latin America, then shifting the focus to empowering those communities’ girls and young women after witnessing a common thread of gender disparities.  “Teen girls would be inside the homes while the...