<P> From that time on, Schramm had a desire to see other students succeed to higher education . Schramm started working with teens who attended an after - school program with Good Shephard Ministries in 1991 . He quickly realized that many of the kids had potential talents and strengths, but were not confident in their own college ability . Also, their middle ranged grades did not attract college admissions . Starting with only four students, Schramm created an intensive essay workshop, teaching and equipping the students with tools to write an essay that would help them be accepted into college . All four were admitted into schools . Schramm experimented again with four more students, and procured the same results . Students that Schramm worked with had college potential; they just needed some guidance and counsel "beyond what their test scores reveal". Soon after the experimental attempts, Schramm founded College Summit in 1995 . It composed of a four day student preparatory college intensive that trained students how to write essays that will assist with admission into colleges . Schramm instilled coaches who worked alongside the kids, helping them apply to schools, and conducting follow - ups during their years in college . College Summit works alongside other universities, partnering with them and running workshops on campus . Schramm took the opportunity to work with several high - schools in 1997 and 1998 . In 1999, "Senior Year Navigator Curriculum" was introduced by College Summit to help equip teachers with the tools to equip students for college . In 2000, Schramm was elected by Ashoka, and was given an annual award by the National Association for College Admission Counseling . By 2003, College Summit had worked with nearly 5,000 students, 95% of them minorities . Today J.B. Schramm is still working to implant College Summit into cities, colleges, and high - schools, all across the U.S. </P> <P> Vera Cordeiro is a physician as well as a social entrepreneur . She founded Asociação Saúde Criança Renascer (Rebirth: Association for Children's Health), which is a network of organizations that continues giving health care to children after they are dismissed from public hospitals . In Brazil millions of children suffer from chronic malnutrition . When Cordeiro founded Renascer in 1991 she was working in the public ward of Hospital da la Lagoa, which was a public hospital in Rio . Seeing the children get discharged from the hospital and returning sick again weeks later broke her heart . She said, "I could not stand to go one more day seeing children locked in this cycle of hospitalization, re-hospitalization, and death ." She founded Renascer so that sick children would not return straight to the slums after being dismissed from the hospital only to get sick again . By 2007 Cordeiro opened sixteen public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Recife, helping more than 20,000 children . In 1999 the director of Lagoa's pediatrics unit, Odilo Arantes, reported that, between 1991 and 1997, Renascer had brought a 60% drop in readmissions to the unit . Arantes is quoted as saying, "Before Renascer, we used to spend lots of effort and money in the emergency room or ICU on treatment knowing that there was a high probability that kids might die afterward from lack of assistance and followup at home . Now when we discharge a poor child, we can feel at peace . And this makes our work more meaningful and rewarding ." In Renascer's headquarters there is a framed quotation from Goethe that says," Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it now . Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it . Begin it now ." Vera Cordeiro certainly lived up to that quotation in her life . Cordeiro displays an amazing determination and love for the children and their families that lived in the slums . She is someone who was able to put her city in order and benefit thousands of children and families around her . </P>

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