Jack Griffin, now 25, was a high-school sopho-more in Atlanta when he saw a 60 Minutes broad-cast on hunger in America. Dismayed, he resolved to be part of the solution, one bag of groceries at a time, by volunteering at a local food pantry. There was just one catch-he couldn't find one. Then a thought struck him: What became of all the desperate, hungry people who couldn't find their neighborhood food pantry, either?
To be sure, Griffin was not the first teenager to have his conscience pricked by the plight of the disadvantaged-just the rare one who iden-tified a need, conceived a solution, and followed through on it. At the ripe age of 16, he established his all-virtual nonprofit, FoodFinder. It began as a website listing a handful of area food banks, cobbled together while his parents drove him to meetings with an array of grown-up “experts,” who were, as Griffin remembers, “quick and eager to poke holes in my ideas.” A decade later, those hunger experts are eating crow. Today, Griffin (now full-time CEO) and his FoodFinder staff of 10 oversee the largest data bank for food assistance in history, a multitasking, nationwide resource that lists and constantly updates
