thegrio.com's list of african-americans making a difference in their community today. the first congratulations on being named one of the 100. good morning. >> good morning, chris, thanks for having me. >> your website and, by the way, it's a terrific website t. works very well. but it's literally changing the way people give by prescreening and posting the needs of everyday americans on the site. and allowing donors to contribute directly to a specific family. how did this all come to be? >> well, what we wanted to do, chris, is create an opportunity to do two things. we want americans to be able to feel good about the gifts that they make. so many times we make these gifts of hard-earned money and it goes unrecognized. donors who make their gives feel the gift because they contract it. we want to help prescreen recipients, americans who are in many cases hard working but are unable to make ends meet who may not be able to get help from typical charity or government. >> and i've seen this as i've