The Hero Effect - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Mission United
Founded by Stephen Moss, who was inspired after his daughter returned from deployment injured, Mission United supports military veterans and their families.
Café Momentum
Chef Chad Houser creates a Dallas-based restaurant and culinary training facility to transform the lives of at-risk youth who spent time in juvenile facilities.
More Too Life
Mary's Center
Raising Readers in Story County
Rising Tide Car Wash
Treehouse Foundation
Katie's Krops
Seventeen-year-old Katie Stagliano starts an organization to teach kids about growing vegetables and how providing those crops to disadvantaged populations can help fight hunger.
Cheyenne River Youth Project
Project leader Julie Garreau works with young people from poverty stricken Native American families in the Eagle Buttle, S.D., community to create services that foster healthy choices and life practices.
Indo Jax Surf Charities
Jack Viorel leads an organization that empowers disadvantaged, medically fragile and special needs children by exposing them to the ocean environment and teaching them to surf.
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The Pitt
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Dark Matter
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