In 2005, in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Talia Leman wanted to get kids across the USA to join her in a project she called "T.L.C.", which stood for "Trick-or-Treat for the Levee Catastrophe". She began by asking a Midwest grocery chain to make the trick-or-treat bags for her. They stunned her by printing 8.5 million trick-or-treat bags for all their 225 stores in 7 states. Talia's project received tremendous press, including the TODAY show. Kids not only trick-or-treated with her, they also ended up reporting their own unique fundraising efforts into her website. They ended up reporting more than 10 million, and ABC national news reported that American school children, unified by Talia Leman, ranked number 5 in the nation for their giving power-- right after Walmart, Exxon, Amoco and BP Mac.

So Talia decided to start "RandomKid", her own nonprofit, partnering with an adult named Anne Ginther. The tagline for RandomKid is "The Power of ANYone". The purpose was to take that kid power and harness it for the other disasters that we face in the world. Kids register on Talia's site, and she networks kids with similar interests together, and they pool their resources to solve real world problems.

She not only unified 5000 U.S. school districts to report more than 10 million for hurricane relief, she also has networked kids from 20 countries to fund and name a school in Cambodia serving 300 students, partnered schools in IA, CT and CA to fund a pump in Africa bringing safe, clean water to 2500 villagers, and inspired 15,000 people to contribute to a campaign to help a family with a seriously ill child. She has developed products with kids ranging from house-shaped carabiner keychains to fund rebuilding efforts in the gulf, to private-labeled bottled water products that fund water pumping technologies. She empowers kids to make a tangible, measurable difference that they can always be proud of.

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