[1] With Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Robert Taft Jr., Sam created and Co-Chaired the Jefferson Awards, an American Nobel Prize for public service and youth leadership training.
[2][3] The Jefferson Awards has since been re-branded to Multiplying Good, and impacts one million students a year.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a low-income community in Brooklyn, New York focusing on social justice and the elimination of poverty.
[7] The inspiration for GIFT came out of his experience in using mindfulness and meditation techniques to deal with a high stress period.
This interest soon grew into a mission Sam predicts will be the most significant outcome in his life of service - Early Childhood Development - Birth to Three.