The power of a teen’s $25 to change a community

JL;DR SUMMARY Lily Messing, a high school senior from Tucson, Arizona, founded 100+ Teens Who Care to empower high school students to collectively donate $25 each at quarterly meetings and decide on charities to support, reflecting the Jewish values of tikkun olam and mitzvot. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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