Last year, my 16-year-old daughter, started a national non-profit organization based out of Seattle, WA. Her organization, Musical Angels, utilizes volunteer youth musicians to provide music therapy to sick children and to raise funds for pediatric primary care and research at Children's Hospitals all across America.

Laura's non-profit organization, Musical Angels (www.musicalangels.com), has raised thousands of dollars for sick kids who are in desperate need of primary care. The research that Musical Angels has funded will free tomorrow's kids from needless diseases and suffering. Laura's selfless example of community service has inspired volunteers from Alaska to New York to join her musical mission of love. And her unique creation will afford inner city youth musicians an opportunity to use their time and talents for constructive and meaningful purposes.

Laura's goal is to help people who are less fortunate than she is. She lives her life like her school's motto, "non sibi," or "not for oneself". When she is older, she wants to help people by becoming either a doctor or research scientist. Meanwhile, in addition to working hard in school, she interns during summers in university cancer research labs, runs her Musical Angels organization, and plays her violin in charity performances to raise donations for Children's Hospital.

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