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To honorees, alumni, parents and program partners across the country: 

What a few weeks it’s been. The Spirit of Community teams at Prudential and NASSP have been thinking of you in these tumultuous times, and hope that you and your loved ones are healthy and safe. 

COVID-19 has upended many lives – from cancelling school and so many events, to closing businesses and straining our health care infrastructure. While this period of closures and social distancing affects each of us in different ways, the common thread is disruption and uncertainty about the weeks ahead, for ourselves and for the communities where we live and serve. 

Disheveled, tattered clothes, worn-out shoes and no backpack. Some kids saw a target — someone to pick on. Hannah Karanick saw a boy who needed help.

Hannah told her parents about the boy in her school. They soon learned he and his mother were living out of their car. Her family offered to help and took the boy in for a year while his mother got back on her feet. While the boy lived with them, Hannah watched him become a new person.