Strings for Hope is a nonprofit organization that sells handmade bracelets made out of guitar strings to help the women it employs, food banks, educational services and health clinics. Laura Wilson, the founder of Strings for Hope, started making bracelets out of recycled guitar strings from her husband’s custom guitar shop. Her original mission was to help her neighbors in need, but her mission eventually grew. Wilson started partnering with The Next Door, a transitional hom

Spending an entire year in a foreign culture on someone else’s dime sounds like any college student’s fantasy. For Belmont alums and newlyweds Eric Taft and Hilary Hambrick-Taft, this was their reality following graduation thanks to the Lumos grant and Belmont University “We found out about it on our first study abroad trip, in 2010. So since our freshman year we knew it was something we were interested in,” said Hambrick-Taft. In 2011, the two returned to Guatemala as a part

With the leadership of sophomore Brennon Mobley, Spring Back recycling has evolved from a small upstart Enactus project into a multi-state operation with a sustainable business model. “From day one, I was involved with Spring Back, and when I started out, it was in the business planning/development stage, and the operational part began in the spring of 2011,” Mobley said. “I was a senior in high school, and then when I really started to get involved was the summer before I ca