I met Carolyn almost a year ago. She contacted me via email as many of my potential clients do. She asked the regular questions…how does it work? How do we get started? Things like that.

Like many other prospective clients, Carolyn had a signature file with a web link. This is where things got different. The web link was for Carolyn’s Compassionate Children, a non-profit organization founded by the very same Carolyn who was emailing me about organizing coaching. The most remarkable part? Carolyn founded this organization at age 15! I was (and continue to be) completely in awe of Carolyn.

Carolyn started Carolyn’s Compassionate Children after visiting a camp for children with cancer. She was so moved by the experience that she wanted to help. So she did what any other 15 year old would do—she set up a non-profit organization to help. The goal of her organization was to help alleviate the isolation children with cancer face by matching cancer patients with pen pals.

Over the past ten years the organization has grown and now provides scholarships for young adult cancer survivors who would have a difficult (if not impossible) time financing their college educations because of their medical bills.

Carolyn is a truly remarkable person. She constantly looks for ways to improve herself so she can give even more to others. Right now, she is in her first year of graduate school at Harvard, pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She studies and researches the psychological impacts of cancer on the patient. She is also working on a book about cancer survivorship that will be published in August.

Carolyn is truly an inspiring person.

I’m sharing this with you now in hopes that you will take a minute to vote for Carolyn. Carolyn has been nominated as a top ten finalist in the NIKE Give 100% Contest. Carolyn is someone who always gives 100% and she started doing so at age 15.

The voting ends tomorrow January, 23rd…so please take a moment to vote now.

Thank you!