The Chronicle of Philanthropy

A Washington Teenager
Gives Peace a Chance

By Elizabeth Greene

Nickole M. Evans started volunteering at age 6, but her commitment to good works was shaped seven years later, by an incident that she says left her bruised but emboldened.

She and a friend were hurt, she recalls, when teenagers shot them with a BB gun as they played in their Kennewick, Wash., neighborhood. Instead of retaliating, she tried to figure...

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