Vicki Sokolik, Founder and Executive Director of Starting Right, Now, (standing) said resiliency and motivation to succeed are two qualities she looks for when interviewing potential program participants, such as Jorge Gonzalez and La’Quita Carter. (Photo and story by Ellen Nason)
Humana’s video about Starting Right, Now, a Humana Communities Benefit grant recipient, is featured in the 2015 Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (BCCCC) Film Festival. The center’s annual Film Festival showcases corporate citizenship videos and asks the public to vote for their favorite.
Voting will take place from March 2 through March 16. Votes are tallied when public voting ends and the top 10 finalists are then reviewed by a panel of judges who choose a winner. The Film Festival winner will be announced April 19 during the 2015 International Corporate Citizenship Conference in Austin, Texas. Learn more about the Film Festival, view the videos and vote.
Humana’s entry in the 2015 Film Festival is a three-minute glimpse into the program for homeless children and those whose lives it has changed. The organization has helped more than 150 formerly homeless youth in Florida’s Hillsborough County find a home and build a foundation for a successful future. Some are the first in their family to graduate from high school and most are the first to graduate from college. Vicki Sokolik, Starting Right, Now founder, hopes to increase that number by expanding the Hillsborough County facility and opening another facility in Pinellas County with the $350,000 grant from the Humana Foundation that her nonprofit recently won. If you want to learn more about the program and those it serves, read this article.