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Power to Empower Award

June 2022

The Children Have the Power to Empower® Award recognizes and showcases children and their outstanding acts of goodness in a meaningful way, giving them a platform to connect, share their stories, and see what others are doing to make a difference. On this page, you will find profiles of Award Recipients and their acts of goodness that earned them the recognition.


Steven Hoffen
New York, NY

Steven Hoffen received the Children Have the Power to Empower® Award for the outstanding acts of goodness he performs through Growing Peace, the nonprofit he founded to help people suffering from food insecurity and hunger.

With kindness and dedication, Steven has raised more than $15,000 to buy, build, and install a hydroponics system at a food bank in Tel Aviv, Israel—a food bank that provides food for, among others, asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan. He is expanding his humanitarian projects through additional fundraising to bring hydroponics to schools and other organizations that help those in need.