Watch a short video featuring Talia as she shares her amazing story.

Talia Leman’s mission is simple yet profound: To help kids help others. Her journey began in 2005 when, at age 10, she saw the story of the victims of Hurricane Katrina and was moved to action. She rallied 4,000 school districts to unify fun-raising efforts for hurricane relief, raising more than $10 million—ranking their giving power among the top five U.S. corporations.

As a result, she founded RandomKid, with the tag line, “The Power of ANYone,” a nonprofit to educate, unify and empower young people of all backgrounds and abilities to make a measurable difference in their efforts to help solve real world problems.

Today, RandomKid works on such projects as providingcrutches and artificial limbs to victims of the Haiti earthquake; planting vegetables for local homeless shelters; and unifying schools to sell their own labeled water to raise funds for water pumps in Africa.

“All our programs and projects are initiated by kids, random kids,” says Talia, CEO of the nonprofit. “For us, it’s all about ‘the power of ANY one.’ Kids often have big ideas. RandomKid takes their ideas for a better tomorrow seriously and helps them generate the momentum that inspires others in order to make their ideas a reality.”

RandomKid provides ideas, project templates and seed funds to launch entrepreneurial endeavors. Seed funds are made possible because every project invites kids to set aside 10 percent of their proceeds to launch the next kids’ ideas.

In her every day life, Talia reaches out to schools and youth groups through the Internet and travels across the country to speak to kids about their power to impact world issues. Kids, schools and youth groups then contact her through her website (www.randomkid.org), and she unifies fundraising efforts with similar goals to fund solutions for people and communities in need.

Talia’s future plans continue to evolve. Her organization is partnering with Ashoka, another nonprofit, to unite kids from all over the world and to leverage the power of youth for an economy of positive change. Ashoka is founded on the premise that the most effective way to promote positive social change is to invest in social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions that are sustainable and replicable, both nationally and globally.

Talia also recently launched Big Return, part of RandomKid, a high-yielding crusade to promote local business and community leaders to come together and invest in local youth by generating a monetary fund, which will support original, society-based pursuits to better the world. On a personal level, Talia hope some day to become a physician. “One of the key messages I share with youth is that small efforts matter most,” Talia says. “This is because success happens slowly, one small act at a time. Believe in your dreams. Find others who believe in them, too. You have the power to make the world a better place!”